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“Forget land, buildings, or machines-the real source of wealth today is intelligence, applied intelligence. We talk glibly of "intellectual property" without taking on board what it really means. It isn't just patent rights and brand names; it is the brains of the place.”

Mean Real Today Names Wealth Forget Brain Rights Land Building Source Intellectual Machines Property Brands Boards Really Mean Patents Intellectual Property Brand Names

Author:Charles Handy

“Excess capacity in people, machines, or property will be quickly absorbed.”

People Capacity Machines Property Excess

Author:Seth Klarman

“We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.”

“Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property.”

Government Liberty Machines Property

Book:The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle

Source: The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle

“Now, a living organism is nothing but a wonderful machine endowed with the most marvellous properties and set going by means of the most complex and delicate mechanism.”

Mean Science Wonderful Machines Property Complexes Mechanism Delicate Organisms Marvellous Living Organisms Biochemistry

Book:An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine

Source: An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine

“[D]iscipline consists in this, that the men who undergo the instruction and have followed it for a certain time are completely deprived of everything which is precious to a man-of the chief human property, rational freedom-and become submissive, machine-like implements of murder in the hands of their organized hierarchic authorities.”

Men Humans War Hands Certain He Man Authority Machines Murder Property Rational Chiefs Organized Instruction Anti War Deprived Submissive

Book:The Complete Works of Count Tolstoy

Source: The Complete Works of Count Tolstoy

“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.”

Men Self Government Eye Father Interest Party Virtue Duty Machines Property Faults Active Appetite Quarters Self Interest Parish

Book:Selections from Carlyle

Source: Selections from Carlyle