“The human venture depends absolutely on this quality of awe and reverence and joy in the Earth and all that lives and grows upon the Earth. As soon as we isolate ourselves from these currents of life and from the profound mood that these engender within us, then our basic life-satisfactions are diminished. None of our machine-made products, none of our computer-based achievements can evoke that total commitment to life.” HumansMadeEarthJoyGrowsQualityGrowing UpProductsDependsAchievementComputerCommitmentMachinesProfoundCurrentsSatisfactionMoodAweReverenceVentureEvoke Book:The Great Work: Our Way into the Future Source: The Great Work: Our Way into the Future
“Sometimes I feel like the Tom Hanks character in Big. But my life is not a movie. I never have to go back to Coney Island to find the fortune-teller machine so I have to grow up again.” FeelsSometimesCharacterBigsLife IsGrowsGrowing UpBasketballMachinesFortuneIslandsTomsFortune TellerConey Island Author:Shaquille O'Neal
“Human artifacts not only include material structures and objects, such as buildings, machines, and automobiles, but they also include organizations, organizational structures like extended families . . . tribes, nations, corporations, churches, political parties, governments, and so on. Some of these may grow unconsciously, but they all originate and are sustained by the images in the human mind.” MindHumansMayGovernmentPoliticalNationsGrowsChurchPartyObjectsBuildingMaterialsMachinesOrganizationStructureCorporationsHuman MindTribesPolitical PartiesAutomobileOrganizationalArtifactsExtended FamilyOrganizational Structure Author:Kenneth E. Boulding
“He who does his work like a machine grows a heart like a machine and he who carries the heart of a machine in his breast loses his simplicity. He who has lost his simplicity becomes unsure in the strivings of his soul.” HeartDoeSoulLostGrowsLosesMachinesStriveSimplicityBreastsCarrieUnsure Author:Zhuangzi
“Each week the machine is spitting out a number for a new person or a new world within New York that you get to know. And the idea from the beginning was that some of the characters would stick around and become part of the lives of the show, and the world of the show itself will continue to grow.” KnowsWorldPersonsIdeasCharacterShowsGrowsNumbersWeekNew YorkMachinesSticksNew World Author:Jonathan Nolan
“Manufacturing takes place in very large facilities. If you want to build a computer chip, you need a giant semiconductor fabrication facility. But nature can grow complex molecular machines using nothing more than a plant.” IfsWantNeedsGrowsComputerMachinesPlantComplexesGiantsChipsFacilityManufacturingFabricationSemiconductors Author:Ralph Merkle
“CALVIN: When I grow up I want to be an inventor. First I will invent a time machine. Then I'll come back to yesterday and take myself to tomorrow and skip this dumb assignment.” WantFirstsGrowsGrowing UpTomorrowMachinesYesterdayDumbInventorAssignmentsSkipTime Machine Author:Bill Watterson
“The huge round lunar clock was a gristmill. Shake down all the grains of Time—the big grains of centuries, and the small grains of years, and the tiny grains of hours and minutes—and the clock pulverized them, slid Time silently out in all directions in a fine pollen, carried by cold winds to blanket the town like dust, everywhere. Spores from that clock lodged in your flesh to wrinkle it, to grow bones to monstrous size, to burst feet from shoes like turnips. Oh, how that great machine…dispensed Time in blowing weathers.” YearsBigsGrowsHoursFeetMinutesCenturyWindHugeFineColdMachinesTownsRoundsShoesSizeBonesFleshTinyWeatherDustClockShakesGrainBlanketMonstrousWrinklesPollenTurnipsCold Wind Author:Ray Bradbury
“Since there is no one else to praise me, I will praise myself -- will say that I have never tampered with a single tooth in my thought machine, such as it is. There are teeth missing, God knows -- some I was born without, teeth that will never grow. And other teeth have been stripped by the clutchless shifts of history -- But never have I willfully destroyed a tooth on a gear of my thinking machine. Never have I said to myself, 'This fact I can do without.” ThinkingKnowsHas BeensSaidI CanFactsGrowsCan DoBornMissingMachinesPraiseTeethDestroyedMy ThoughtsGod KnowsGearsMother Night Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing.” HumansForceGrowsSidesJusticeTreeHuman NatureDiversityModelsBuiltMachinesSocial JusticeTendenciesInwardLiving ThingsGymnastics Book:The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill Source: The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill
“It is a myth that the success of science in our time is mainly due to the huge amounts of money that have been spent on big machines. What really makes science grow is new ideas, including false ideas.” Has BeensIdeasBigsScienceGrowsGrowthHugeAmountMachinesAccountsIncludingDuesMythOur TimeNew Ideas Author:Karl Popper