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“Our assaults on the ecosystem are so powerful, so numerous, so finely interconnected, that although the damage they do is clear, it is very difficult to discover how it was done. By which weapon? In whose hand? Are we driving the ecosphere to destruction simply by our growing numbers? By our greedy accumulation of wealth? Or are the machines which we have built to gain this wealth-the magnificent technology that now feeds us out of neat packages, that clothes us in man-made fibers, that surrounds us with new chemical creations-at fault?”

“Hopefully, you'll be able to find enough of an audience, each time, that you can keep working, rather than getting caught up in the Hollywood system, which can so quickly become about how much money something makes and how many people went to watch it. It's very alluring. It's such a powerful machine that's playing on you, the whole time.”

People Enough Whole Able Powerful Watches Audience Hollywood Machines Caught Hopefully Caught Up Alluring

Author:Sharlto Copley

“When we had no computers, we had no programming problem either. When we had a few computers, we had a mild programming problem. Confronted with machines a million times as powerful, we are faced with a gigantic programming problem.”

Problem Powerful Millions Computer Machines Programming

Author:Edsger Dijkstra

“Who is all-powerful in the world? Who is most dreadful in the world? The machine. Who is most fair, most wealthy, and all-wise? The machine. What is the earth? A machine. What is the sky? A machine. What is man? A machine. A machine.”

Men World Earth Powerful Wise Sky Fairs Machines Wealthy

Book:King-Hunger: Translated from the Russian by Eugene M. Kayden

Source: King-Hunger: Translated from the Russian by Eugene M. Kayden

“One of the most terrible things about the English education System in Ireland is its ruthlessness...it is cold and mechanical, like the ruthlessness of an immensely powerful engine. A machine vast, complicated... It grinds night and day; it obeys immutable and predetermined laws; it is as devoid of understanding, of sympathy, of imagination, as is any other piece of machinery that performs an appointed task. Into it is fed all raw human material in Ireland; it seizes upon it inexorably and rends and compresses and remoulds...”

“We will have to choose not between color nor race nor religion nor between East and West either, but simply between being slaves and being free. And we will have to choose completely and for good; the time is already past now when we can choose a little of each, a little of both. We can choose a state of slavedom, and if we are powerful enough to be among the top two or three or ten, we can have a certain amount of license - until someone more powerful rises and has us machine-gunned against a cellar wall.”

Source: Essays, Speeches & Public Letters

“It is as dangerous for people unaccustomed to handling words and unacquainted with their technique to tinker about with these heavily-charged nuclei of emotional power as it would be for me to burst into a laboratory and play about with a powerful electromagnet or other machine highly charged with electrical force.”

People Play Would Be Force Powerful Dangerous Emotional Machines Technique Laboratory Electrical Nucleus Emotional Power

Author:Dorothy L. Sayers

“Many say that DOS is the dark side [from Star Wars], but actually UNIX is more like the dark side: It's less likely to find the one way to destroy your incredibly powerful machine, and more likely to make upper management choke.”

Way War Stars Sides Dark Powerful Machines Management One Way Choke Dark Side Unix

Author:Lore Sjoberg

“We now have cultural machines so powerful that one singer can reach everybody in the world, and make all the other singers feel inferior because they're not like him. Once that gets started, he gets backed by so much cash and so much power that he becomes a monstrous invader from outer space, crushing the life out of all the other human possibilities. My life has been devoted to opposing that tendency.”

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Author:Alan Lomax

“The Palestinians are fighting with human suicide bombers, that's all they have. The Israelis... they've got one of the most powerful military machines in the world. The Palestinians have nothing. So who are the terrorists? I would make a case that both sides are involved in terrorism.”

World Humans Fighting Sides Powerful Cases Military Involved Machines Suicide Terrorism Terrorist Most Powerful Palestinian Both Sides Bombers Suicide Bombers

Author:Ted Turner

“When we have that scene where I shoot that huge machine gun, my first thought was "Why does anybody want this? What is the point of something like this?" I know some people feel powerful or whatever and I'm just like, " I feel like I want nothing to do with this."”

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Author:Zach Gilford

“But a machine that was powerful enough to accelerate particles to the grand unification energy would have to be as big as the Solar System - and would be unlikely to be funded in the present economic climate.”

Enough Bigs Would Be Energy Powerful Economic Machines Climate Unlikely Particles Solar System Accelerate Unification Economic Climate

Book:A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes

Source: A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes

“It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.”

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Book:The Crystal Bucket

Source: The Crystal Bucket

“Easy money, sudden fortunes, increasingly powerful political machines and blatant corruption transformed much of the nation; and the Senate, as befits a democratic legislative body, accurately represented the nation.”

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Book:Profiles in Courage

Source: Profiles in Courage

“We need election reform because our elections are being stolen. And these huge powerful voting machine vending companies have privatized the election process in our country.”

Needs Country Process Powerful Company Huge Machines Election Our Country Reform Voting Stolen Election Process

Author:Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

“A lot of people talk about sometime around 2030, machines will be more powerful than the human brain, in terms of the raw number of computations they can do per second. But that seems completely irrelevant. We don't know how the brain is organized, how it does what it does.”

People Knows Humans Doe Seems Term Can Do Powerful Numbers Brain Know How Machines Organized Irrelevant Human Brain Computation

Author:Stuart J. Russell

“When you write a piece of software you assume a certain type of hardware. If you assume hardware that's too powerful then you can't sell many copies cause very few people have that machine. If you assume hardware that's too simple your product can't do as much.”

People Ifs Writing Certain Causes Simple Powerful Pieces Products Type Machines Sells Assuming Copies Software Hardware

Author:Bill Gates

“How far must suffering and misery go before we see that even in the day of vast cities and powerful machines, the good earth is our mother and that if we destroy her, we destroy ourselves?”

Ifs Earth Mother Suffering Powerful Cities Machines Misery Environmental Stewardship Environmental Stewardship Good Earth

Author:Paul Sears

“Technologies first equipped the territorial body with bridges, aqueducts, railways, highways, airports, etc. Now that the most powerful technologies are becoming tiny - microtechnologies, all technologies can invade the body. These micro-machines will feed the body. Research is being conducted in order to create additional memory for instance.”

Firsts Body Order Memories Powerful Technology Becoming Research Machines Tiny Instance Bridges Etc Most Powerful Highways Airports Railway Territorial Aqueducts

Author:Paul Virilio

“Alienation as we find it in modern society is almost total… Man has created a world of man-made things as it never existed before. He has constructed a complicated social machine to administer the technical machine he built. The more powerful and gigantic the forces are which he unleashes, the more powerless he feels himself as a human being. He is owned by his creations, and has lost ownership of himself.”

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Author:Erich Fromm

“Kronos would be 10 times more powerful. His very presence would incinerate you. And once he achieves this he will empower the other Titans. They are weak, compared to what they soon will become, unless you can stop them, the world will fall, the gods will die, and I will never achieve a perfect score on this stupid machine.”

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Author:Rick Riordan

“We Americans claim to be a peace-loving people. We hate bloodshed; we are opposed to violence. Yet we go into spasms of joy over the possibility of projecting dynamite bombs from flying machines upon helpless citizens. We are ready to hang, electrocute, or lynch anyone, who, from economic necessity, will risk his own life in the attempt upon that of some industrial magnate. Yet our hearts swell with pride at the thought that America is becoming the most powerful nation on earth, and that she will eventually plant her iron foot on the necks of all other nations. Such is the logic of patriotism.”

Source: Emma Goldman

“But human beings are not machines, and however powerful the pressure to conform, they sometimes are so moved by what they see as injustice that they dare to declare their independence. In that historical possibility lies hope.”

Humans Sometimes Lying Human Beings Powerful Possibility Machines Pressure Independence Moved Historical Injustice Dare Conformity Conform

Book:You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times

Source: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times

“And then, when I thought about joining the Air Force, flying seemed like a natural extension of the motorcycling experience. You're going faster, higher. You're operating a machine that's a lot more powerful than you are.”

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Author:Duane G. Carey

“The principles now being discovered at work in the brain may provide, in the future, machines even more powerful than those we can at present foresee.”

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Author:John Zachary Young

“Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice? Let us rather call it injustice, but of a sly effective order, based entirely on cruel knowledge of the resistance of the weak, their capacity for pain, humilation and misery. Injustice sustained at the exact degree of necessary tension to turn the cogs of the huge machine-for-the-making-of-rich-men, without bursting the boiler.”

Men Hands Pain Order Turns Justice Powerful Rich Huge Degrees Capacity Weak Machines Misery Injustice Resistance Tension Governing Rich Man Bursting Sly Cogs Boiler

Author:Georges Bernanos

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