“He who never looks up to a living God, to a heavenly presence, loses the power of perceiving that presence, and the universe slowly turns into a dead machine, clashing and grinding on, without purpose or end. If the light within us be darkness, how great is that darkness!” IfsLooksEndsLightPurposeTurnsUniverseLosesDarknessMachinesLook UpHeavenlyLight Within Book:Self-culture, lectures Source: Self-culture, lectures
“I hate symbolic art in which the presentation loses all spontaneous movement in order to become a machine, an allegory -- a vain and misconceived effort because the very fact of giving an allegorical sense to a presentation clearly shows that we have to do with a fable which by itself has no truth either fantastic or direct; it was made for the demonstration of some moral truth.” GivingArtMadeFactsShowsHateOrderLosesEffortMoralMovementDirectMachinesI HateFantasticVainSpontaneousPresentationDemonstrationSymbolicFablesAllegory Author:Luigi Pirandello
“The diet book is one of those fool-and-money separation devices that seems, like roulette or slot machines, never to lose its power.” BookSeemsLosesFoodFoolMachinesSeparationDietsDevicesSlot MachinesRoulette Author:Christopher Hitchens
“We live in a culture that paces itself to the speed of machines. We are trying like good little robots to match our speed with theirs. Humans cannot move at the same rate as machines. When we attempt to, we lose contact with our own humanness.” TryingHumansLittlesMovingCultureLosesMachinesRateSpeedContactPaceRobotsHumanness Author:Tian Dayton
“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
“For every slot machine you add, you lose one job per year from the consumer economy” YearsJobsLosesEconomyMachinesAddConsumersGamblingSlot Machines Author:John Warren Kindt
“For every three machines, you lose two jobs out of the surrounding economy because people are dumping their money on gambling” PeopleTwoJobsThreeLosesEconomyMachinesGamblingTwo Jobs Author:John Warren Kindt
“I'm still an Apple person, but let's just say the magic aura is gone. In a way that was a sad thing to lose, but I feel better for it. It's just a machine now, not linked with any greater mission or mystique.” WayFeelsPersonsStillsLosesGoneGreaterMagicMachinesMissionsApplesFeel BetterLinkedAurasMystiqueSad Things Author:Alex Gibney
“My thing is, once you start to put a backbeat on your music or something that has a machine in it, you have popularity, but you lose the flexibility. And you lose a richness.” LosesMachinesPopularityFlexibilityRichness Author:Wynton Marsalis
“Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.” LosesBusinessMillionsEconomyGainsMachinesTragedySecondsAnnoyingSlot Machines Author:Ted Turner
“Maybe that's why a broken machine always makes me a little sad, because it isn't able to do what it was meant to do...Maybe it's the same with people," Hugo continued. "If you lose your purpose...it's like you're broken.” PeopleIfsLittlesAblePurposeLosesBrokenMachines Author:Brian Selznick
“It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.” IfsMenScienceUsedHoursLosesLaborMachinesSlaveExcellentCalculationsUnworthy Author:Gottfried Leibniz
“What worries me though, is that after all those victories people don't see me as a human being anymore. I am not a machine, I have a heart beating in my chest -not an engine, there's blood in my veins- not oil. I know pain and fatigue. I can lose but I will strive to win everything.” PeopleKnowsHumansHeartI CanPainWinningLosesHuman BeingsWorryBloodVictoryMachinesStriveOilAssChestsEnginesBad AssVeinsFatigueHeart BeatHeart Beating Author:Evgeni Plushenko
“The mind is a mechanism. It has no intelligence. The mind is a bio-computer. How can it have any intelligence? It has skill, but it has no intelligence; it has a functional utility, but it has no awareness. It is a robot; it works well but don`t listen to it too much because then you will lose your inner intelligence. Then it is as if you are asking a machine to guide you, lead you. You are asking a machine which has nothing original in it.” IfsMindWellsLosesToo MuchAwarenessSkillsComputerMachinesAskingOriginalsIntelligenceGuidesMechanismRobotsUtilityBios Author:Rajneesh
“If the worst thing that can happen is that nobody laughs, then I can deal with that, because the worst thing that can happen at the factory is that I could lose a limb or be crushed by a huge machine.” IfsI CanHappensLosesDealsLaughingWorstHugeMachinesFactoriesWorst ThingsLimbsCrushed Author:George Lopez
“Insofar as the theorist wins, therefore, by constructing an increasingly closed and terrifying machine, to that very degree he loses, since the critical capacity of his work is thereby paralysed, and the impulses of negation and revolt, not to speak of those of social transformation, are increasingly perceived as vain and trivial in the face of the model itself.” FacesWinningSpeakSocialLosesDegreesModelsCapacityMachinesTransformationCriticalVainImpulseRevoltTheoristsNegationSocial Transformation Author:Fredric Jameson
“For, I must tell you, in this world where today all lose their minds over many & wondrous Machines - some of which, alas, you can see also in this Siege - I construct Aristotelian Machines, that allow anyone to see with Words.” WorldMindTodayLosesThis WorldMachinesConstructsAlasWondrousSiege Author:Umberto Eco