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“Not far from here, by a white sun, behind a green star, lived the Steelypips, illustrious, industrious, and they hadn't a care: no spats in their vats, no rules, no schools, no gloom, no evil influence of the moon, no trouble from matter or antimatter - for they had a machine, a dream of a machine, with springs and gears and perfect in every respect. And they lived with it, and on it, and under it, and inside it, for it was all they had - first they saved up all their atoms, then they put them all together, and if one didn't fit, why they chipped at it a bit, and everything was just fine.”

Source: The Cyberiad

“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

“Two things hold promise of improving those lights. One is to apply science to land-use. The other is to cultivate a love of country a little less spangled with stars, and a little more imbued with that respect for mother-earth - the lack of which is, to me, the outstanding attribute of the machine-age.”

Littles Two Country Use Light Age Earth Mother Stars Land Promise Machines Two Things Attributes Improving Outstanding Mother Earth Land Use

Book:Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)

Source: Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)

“Humphrey Searle writes music that sounds like the theme from 'Star Wars' played backwards through a washing machine.”

Writing War Stars Sound Machines Theme Backwards Washing Washing Machines

Author:Clive James

“Understanding human nature must be the basis of any real improvement in human life. Science has done wonders in mastering the laws of the physical world, but our own nature is much less understood, as yet, than the nature of stars and electrons. When science learns to understand human nature, it will be able to bring a happiness into our lives which machines and the physical sciences have failed to create.”

World Humans Real Done Able Law Stars Understanding Wonder Our Lives Human Nature Understood Machines Bases Improvement Human Life Electrons Physical Science

Book:Sceptical Essays

Source: Sceptical Essays

“One day the stars will be as familiar to each man as the landmarks, the curves, and the hills on the road that leads to his door, and one day this will be an airborne life. But by then men will have forgotten how to fly; they will be passengers on machines whose conductors are carefully promoted to a familiarity with labelled buttons, and in whose minds knowledge of the sky and the wind and the way of weather will be extraneous as passing fiction.”

Source: The Illustrated West with the Night

“We sat in silence, both of us looking up at the stars. He was probably envisioning a machine headed for Pluto. I wished i was on that machine.”

Stars Silence Machines Sat Pluto Envisioning

Author:Elizabeth Chandler

“Maybe belief is the biggest lie. In ages past, the earliest philosophers tried to explain the stars in the sky and the world around them. One of them conceived of the notion that the universe was mounted on giant crystal spheres controlled by a giant machine, which explained the movements of the heavens. He was laughed at and told that such a machine would be so huge and noisy that everyone would hear it. He simply replied that we are born with that noise all around us, and that we are so used to hearing it that we cannot hear it at all.”

World Would Be Age Past Used Lying Universe Belief Heaven Stars Born Sky Movement Huge Machines Notion Philosopher Hearing Noise Giants Controlled Laughed Spheres Crystals Noisy Stars In The Sky

Author:Dan Abnett

“The immense distances to the stars and the galaxies mean that we see everything ins pace int he past, some as they were before the Earth came to be. Telescopes are time machines.”

Mean Earth Past Stars Machines Distance Pace Immense Galaxy Telescopes Time Machine

Book:Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

Source: Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

“In Harvest of Stars, there is this notion, not original with me of course, that it will become possible to download at least the basic aspects of a human personality into a machine program.”

Humans Courses Stars Personality Aspect Program Machines Originals Notion Harvest Downloads Human Personality

Author:Poul Anderson

“Our lives look a lot more interesting when they’re filtered through the sexy Facebook interface. We star in our own movies, we photograph ourselves incessantly, we click the mouse and a machine confirms our sense of mastery.”

Looks Stars Interesting Our Lives Machines Photograph Sexy Mastery Mice Clicks Incessantly Interfaces

Book:Farther Away: Essays

Source: Farther Away: Essays