“Saul Gorn, an authority on machine oi automated language who has expanded his interests from the use of the computer foi information storage and retrieval to the broader topic of the "'information pollution" and an examination of the forces which contribute to it.” UseLanguageForceInterestInformationAuthorityComputerMachinesPollutionTopicsExaminationStorage Author:Saul Gorn
“It is in the interests of society to put the Pill into slot machines and to place cigarettes on prescription.” InterestModernMachinesCigarettePillsModern LifePrescriptionsSlot Machines Author:Malcolm Potts
“Machines have no political opinions, but they have profound political effects. They demand a strict regimentation of time, and, by abolishing the need for manual skill, have transformed the majority of the population from workers into laborers. There are, that is to say, fewer and fewer jobs which a man can find a pride and satisfaction in doing well, more and more which have no interest in themselves and can be valued only for the money they provide.” MenNeedsWellsJobsPoliticalInterestOpinionEffectsPrideSkillsDemandMachinesMajorityProfoundWorkersPopulationSatisfactionFewerTransformedStrictManualsLaborersPolitical OpinionsRegimentation Author:W. H. Auden
“I don't think I was awake for much of my childhood. I did a lot of napping. This might have been a defensive measure against encroaching depression. Until about the age of eleven or twelve, I had zero interests other than trying to steal gumballs from supermarket gumball machines.” ThinkingTryingHas BeensMightAgeInterestChildhoodDepressionMachinesDefenseStealingComedianAwakeZeroTwelveNot InterestedMight Have BeenElevenNapsSupermarketsHumoristsUnhappy ChildhoodGumballs Author:Michael Ian Black
“Sci-fi uses the images that sf - starting with H.G. Wells - made familiar: space travel, aliens, galactic wars and federations, time machines, et cetera, taking them literally, not caring if they are possible or even plausible. It has no interest in or relation to real science or technology. It's fantasy in space suits. Spectacle. Wizards with lasers. Kids with ray guns. I've written both, but I have to say I respect science fiction enough that I wince when people call it sci-fi.” PeopleIfsWellsMadeWarRealEnoughUseKidsInterestSpaceFictionTechnologyFantasyWrittenGunMachinesRelationScience FictionStartingCaringFamiliarSuitsAliensRaysSci FiWizardsSpace TravelPlausibleNot CaringLasersTime MachineFederationWince Author:Ursula K. Le Guin
“In my life there are not that many questions I can't properly deal with using my $40 adding machine and dog-eared compound interest table.” I CanInterestDealsDogMachinesTablesCompoundsCompound Interest Author:Charlie Munger
“The women all had big minds because they were big animals, but they didn't use them for this reason: unusual ideas could make enemies and the women, if they were going to achieve any sort of comfort and safety, needed all the friends they could get. So, in the interest of survival they trained themselves to be agreeing machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking and then they thought it too.” PeopleIfsThinkingMindIdeasReasonUseBigsInterestAnimalEnemyAchieveNeededComfortSurvivalMachinesSafetyUnusual Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“America's abundance was created not by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes. They did not starve the people to pay for America's industrialization. They gave the people better jobs, higher wages, and cheaper goods with every new machine they invented, with every scientific discovery or technological advance- and thus the whole country was moving forward and profiting, not suffering, every step of the way.” PeopleMenWayCountryWholeJobsAmericaMovingPoliticalSufferingPoliticsInterestCommonPayStepsSacrificeGeniusHigherDiscoveryCapitalismEconomicsMachinesFortuneMoving ForwardAbundanceProductiveGoodsTechnologicalWagesPursuedCheaperFree ManEvery StepCommon GoodBetter JobsScientific DiscoveryIndustrializationPersonal InterestPolitics And Economics Author:Ayn Rand
“So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too.” PeopleThinkingMindInterestSurvivalMachinesBreakfast Of Champions Book:Breakfast of champions: or, Goodbye blue Monday! Source: Breakfast of champions: or, Goodbye blue Monday!
“the most compelling reason for reforming our system is that the system is in no one's interest. It is a suicide machine.” ReasonInterestMachinesSuicideCompellingCompelling Reason Author:Ronald Wright
“Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for self-interest, requires no virtue in any quarter. To both parties it is emphatically a machine: to the discontented, a taxing-machine; to the contented, a machine for securing property. Its duties and its faults are not those of a father, but of an active parish-constable.” MenSelfGovernmentEyeFatherInterestPartyVirtueDutyMachinesPropertyFaultsActiveAppetiteQuartersSelf InterestParish Book:Selections from Carlyle Source: Selections from Carlyle
“Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests.” GovernmentPoliticalWishInterestMoralEconomyIssuesMachinesNotionCompetingDisturbedPolitical EconomyMoral Issues Book:The Power Elite Source: The Power Elite