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“Idealists, workers of thought, unite to show how inspiration and genius walk in step with the progress of the machine, of aircraft, of industry, of trade, of the sciences, of electricity.”

Shows Inspiration Walks Steps Progress Industry Genius Machines Trade Workers Electricity Idealist Aircraft

Author:Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

“People need to understand that the Lauryn Hill they were exposed to in the beginning was all that was allowed in that arena at the time. I had to step away for the sake of the machine. I was being way too compromised. I felt uncomfortable having to smile in someone's face when I really didn't like them or know them well enough to like.”

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Author:Lauryn Hill

“As we let go of the machine model of work, we begin to step back and see ourselves in new ways, to appreciate wholeness, and to design organizations that honor and make use of the totality of who we are.”

Way Use Steps Design Honor Letting Go Models Appreciate Machines Organization Who We Are New Ways Wholeness Totality

Book:Leadership and the new science: learning about organization from an orderly universe

Source: Leadership and the new science: learning about organization from an orderly universe

“Those who have succeeded in attaching or detaching their minds at will have succeeded in Pratyahara, which means gathering towards, checking the outgoing powers of the mind, freeing it from the thralldom of the senses. When we can do this, we shall really possess character; then alone we shall have taken a long step towards freedom. Before that, we are mere machines.”

Mind Mean Long Character Can Do Steps Taken Machines Mere Senses Gathering Power Of The Mind Outgoing

Author:Swami Vivekananda

“Machine thinking is the opposite of mindfulness. If we're really engaged in mindfulness when walking along the path to the village, then we will consider the act of each step we take as an infinite wonder, and a joy will open our hearts like a flower, enabling us to enter the world of reality.”

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Author:Nhat Hanh

“By the time of the Singularity, there won't be a distinction between humans and technology. This is not because humans will have become what we think of as machines today, but rather machines will have progressed to be like humans and beyond. Technology will be the metaphorical opposable thumb that enables our next step in evolution.”

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Book:The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology

Source: The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology

“My dad moved to New York after he won "Soul Train" and the car and got settled in out there and was able to step right into Dance Theatre of Harlem and felt like he was in a show called "Omnibus" and "American Dance Machine."”

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Author:Mahershala Ali

“I read," I say. "I study and read. I bet I've read everything you read. Don't think I haven't. I consume libraries. I wear out spines and ROM-drives. I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it." My instincts concerning syntax and mechanics are better than your own, I can tell, with all due respect. But it transcends the mechanics. I'm not a machine. I feel and believe. I have opinions. Some of them are interesting. I could, if you'd let me, talk and talk.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Believe I Can Interesting Steps Opinion Study Havens Machines Let Me Instinct Library Dues Mechanic Spine Taxi Syntax

Author:David Foster Wallace

“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.”

“This is a huge step toward unraveling Genesis Chapter 1, Verse 1-what happened in the beginning. This is a Genesis machine. It'll help to recreate the most glorious event in the history of the universe.”

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Author:Michio Kaku

“People think they have taken quite an extraordinarily bold step forward when they have rid themselves of belief in hereditary monarchy and swear by the democratic republic. In reality, however, the state is nothing but a machine for the oppression of one class by another, and indeed in the democratic republic no less than in the monarchy.”

People Thinking States Reality Belief Steps Class Taken Machines Democratic Oppression Republic Swear Monarchy Steps Forward Hereditary Democratic Republic

Book:Basic writings on politics and philosophy

Source: Basic writings on politics and philosophy