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“Science can give us only the tools in the box, these mechanical miracles that it has already given us. But of what use to us are miraculous tools until we have mastered the humane, cultural use of them? We do not want to live in a world where the machine has mastered the man; we want to live in a world where man has mastered the machine.”

Men World Want Giving Use Science Given He Man Tools Machines Accounts Miracle Boxes Miraculous Humane

Author:Frank Lloyd Wright

“Meditation means undoing what the society has done to you. It has reduced you to a machine; you have to de-automatise yourself, you have to become a man again. You have to come out of this state of unconsciousness, of mechanicalness. You have to come out of this sleep. It is possible only through meditation. There is no other way, there has never been, there will never be. The only way to reduce a man to a machine is take away his consciousness force him to function unconsciously. And just the opposite is the way of meditation: give him back his consciousness.”

Men Way Giving Mean States Done Force Sleep Consciousness Meditation Machines Opposites Function Unconsciousness Undoing

Author:Rajneesh

“We are indebted to Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin for giving us a weapon. The weapon is not a machine-gun, but Marxism-Leninism.”

Giving Communication Weapons Gun Machines Marxism Indebted Machine Guns Engels Marxism Leninism Lenin And Stalin

Book:On people's democratic dictatorship: written in commemoration of the 28th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party, July 1, 1949

Source: On people's democratic dictatorship: written in commemoration of the 28th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party, July 1, 1949

“My plea to educators and parents is that they should give some thought to the nature of the brain of a child, for the brain is a living mechanism, not a machine. In case of breakdown, it can substitute one of its parts for the function of another. But it has its limitations. It is subject to inexorable change with the passage of time.”

Giving Should Children Parent Brain Cases Subjects Machines Function Limitation Substitutes Passages Mechanism Breakdown Educator Passage Of Time Inexorable

Book:Speech and Brain Mechanisms

Source: Speech and Brain Mechanisms

“On Sept 15th [1852] Mr Goulburn, Chancellor of the Exchequer, asked my opinion on the utility of Mr Babbage's calculating machine, and the propriety of spending further sums of money on it. I replied, entering fully into the matter, and giving my opinion that it was worthless.”

Giving Matter Opinion Machines Spending Entering Worthless Utility Propriety Calculating Airy

Author:George Biddell Airy

“I will now claim - until dispossesed - that I was the first person in the world to apply the typewriter to literature. ... The early machine was full of caprices, full of defects- devilish ones. It had as many immoralities as the machine of today has virtues. After a year or two I found that it was degrading my character, so I thought I would give it to Howells. ... He took it home to Boston, and my morals began to improve, but his have never recovered.”

World Giving Years Firsts Persons Two Character Home Today Found Literature Moral Virtue Machines Claims Defects Boston First Person Typewriters Immorality Degrading Caprice Devilish

Author:Mark Twain

“Whatever machine you use, however sophisticated your technology , it's ideas that count. In the beginning was the idea. No machine will give you the ability to spot an opening, take a new idea, and see it through to profitable fruition.”

Giving Writing Ideas Use Ability Technology Machines Opening Spots New Ideas Sophisticated Profitable Fruition

Author:Tom Crabtree

“Making money isn't the main point of business. Money is a by-product.... A new product has been found, something of use to the world. A new industry moves into an undeveloped area. Factories go up, machines go in and you're in business. It's coincidental that people who've never seen a dime now have a dollar and barefooted kids wear shoes and have their faces washed. What's wrong with an urge that gives people libraries, hospitals, baseball diamonds and movies on a Saturday night?”

“My aim is to say that the machinery of the heavens is not like a divine animal but like a clock (and anyone who believes a clock has a soul gives the work the honour due to its maker) and that in it almost all the variety of motions is from one very simple magnetic force acting on bodies, as in the clock all motions are from a very simple weight.”

Giving Believe Soul Body Science Force Heaven Simple Animal Acting Divine Machines Weight Aim Dues Variety Clock Honour Makers Machinery Magnetic Magnetic Force

Author:Johannes Kepler

“People used to ask me, 'What do you reckon you'll be doing when you're 40?', and I told 'em 'rocking out and kicking ass!' Now it's 'What do you reckon you'll be doing at 60?' and the answer's exactly the same. I'm always going to love Jimi Hendrix - 'Purple Haze' will still give me a hard-on when I'm hooked up to a life-support machine. Hey, even when I'm dead, they're going to have a hell of a job nailing the coffin lid down.”

People Giving Stills Hard Jobs Used Asks Answers Support Hell Machines Give Me Ass Hey Ask Me Ems Purple Kicking Hooked Coffins Hendrix Haze Rocking Out Purple Haze

Author:Steven Tyler

“Give a member of Congress a junket and a mimeograph machine and he thinks he is secretary of state”

Thinking Giving States Members Machines Congress Secretary

Author:Dean Rusk

“Machines are admirable and tyrannize only with the user's consent. Where, then, is the enemy? Not where the machine gives relief from drudgery but where human judgment abdicates. The smoothest machine-made product of the age is the organization man, for even the best organizing principle tends to corrupt, and the mechanical principle corrupts absolutely.”

Men Giving Humans Made Age Enemy Principles Products Judgment Machines Organization Relief Users Consent Admirable Drudgery

Author:Jacques Barzun

“You know what they want? They want obedient workers. Obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork. And just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it. And now they're coming for your Social Security money. They want your f**kin' retirement money. They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street.”

“Sometimes I wish God would give me a Holy Ghost machine gun. I'd blow your head off!”

Giving Sometimes Wish Holy Gun Machines Give Me Blow Ghost Holy Ghost Machine Guns

Author:Benny Hinn