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“the instruments of power - arms, gold, machines, magical or technical secrets - always exist independently of him who disposes of them, and can be taken up by others. Consequently all power is unstable.”

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Book:Oppression and Liberty

Source: Oppression and Liberty

“Rhythms, beats, etc., are fundamentally central to my creative drive: my first instrument was the drums, nearly every band I have been involved in or at the helm of, is driven by rhythm, my band is driven entirely by rhythm, machine rhythm, and the purpose of the rock instrumentation is literally to speak the beats, to emulate the rhythms with guitars and bass, with very little articulation, and without being 'progressive'.”

Firsts Littles Has Beens Purpose Speak Creative Rocks Involved Band Beats Machines Instruments Guitar Driven Rhythm Etc Progressive Bass Emulate Helm Articulation Instrumentation

Author:Justin Broadrick

“I do get labeled as a guitar band, but the only reason is that's the instrument I know how to play. The guitar is serving the song I'm writing. But I'm learning how to play keyboard better now so that'll start serving the song as well; it'll be another flavor. I'm not going to switch it up with big, fat drum machine beats and real swoopy synths, but yeah...”

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Author:Mac DeMarco

“In turning from the smaller instruments in frequent use to the larger and more important machines, the economy arising from the increase of velocity becomes more striking.”

Important Use Economy Machines Increase Instruments Velocity

Book:On The Economy Of Machinery And Manufactures

Source: On The Economy Of Machinery And Manufactures

“I made an instrument which I'm really happy about, because I always wanted to have a machine that did this so once I established it as my unique tool, it was like, now I'm going to master it like a guitar.”

Made Wanted Masters Unique Tools Machines Instruments Guitar Really Happy

Author:Jamie Lidell

“A piano is a machine, but you've got ivory and there's weight behind the keys and you have this really - you feel the resonance in the instrument, you feel the vibration in the pedal. I mean, these a still very crude.”

Feels Mean Stills Behinds Keys Machines Weight Instruments Piano Vibrations Crude Resonance Ivory Pedals

Author:Tod Machover

“When we relate to our bodies as having soul, we attend to their beauty, their poetry and their expressiveness. Our very habit of treating the body as a machine, whose muscles are like pulleys and its organs engines, forces its poetry underground, so that we experience the body as an instrument and see its poetics only in illness.”

Soul Body Force Habit Machines Instruments Illness Relate Muscles Engines Organs Pulleys

Book:Care of the soul: a guide for cultivating depth and sacredness in everyday life

Source: Care of the soul: a guide for cultivating depth and sacredness in everyday life

“In attempting to construct such (artificially intelligent) machines we should not be irreverently usurping His (God's) power of creating souls, any more than we are in the procreation of children,” Turing had advised. “Rather we are, in either case, instruments of His will providing mansions for the souls that He creates.”

Should Children Soul Cases Creating Machines Intelligent Instruments Providing Constructs Attempting Mansions Procreation Intelligent Machines

Author:Alan Turing

“It is better to cherish virtue and humanity, by leaving much to free will, even with some loss of the object , than to attempt to make men mere machines and instruments of political benevolence. The world on the whole will gain by a liberty, without which virtue cannot exist.”

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Book:The Portable Edmund Burke

Source: The Portable Edmund Burke

“Your body is merely a machine made to express the thoughts that flow through you and nothing more. It is but an instrument for you to express your imagings just as a piano is an instrument for a musician to express his imagings. Just as the piano is not the musician, so, likewise, your body is not you.”

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Author:Walter Russell

“The state machine, including the army, the police and the courts, is the instrument with which one class oppresses another. It is an instrument of oppression against all hostile classes; it means violence and is certainly not anything 'benevolent.' 'You are merciless.' Quite so. We definitely do not adopt a benevolent policy towards the reactionary activities of the reactionaries and the reactionary classes.”

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Author:Mao Zedong

“Cannons and fire-arms are cruel and damnable machines; I believe them to have been the direct suggestion of the Devil. If Adam had seen in a vision the horrible instruments his children were to invent, he would have died of grief.”

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Author:Martin Luther

“Propose to an Englishman any principle, or any instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the English mind is directed to find a difficulty, a defect, or an impossibility in it. If you speak to him of a machine for peeling a potato, he will pronounce it impossible: if you peel a potato with it before his eyes, he will declare it useless, because it will not slice a pineapple.”

Source: Scientific and Miscellaneous Papers