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“The reason for not going out and sinning all you like is the same as the reason for not going out and putting your nose in a slicing machine: its dumb, stupid, and no fun. Some individual sins may have pleasure still attached to them because of the residual goodness of the realities they are abusing: adultery can indeed be pleasant and tying one on can amuse. But betrayal, jealousy, love grown cold, and the gray dawn of the morning after are nobody's idea of a good time.”

Source: Kingdom, Grace, Judgment: Paradox, Outrage, and Vindication in the Parables of Jesus

“The World's Fair audience tended to think of the machine as unqualifiedly good, strong, stupid and obedient. They thought of it as a giant slave, an untiring steel Negro, controlled by Reason in a world of infinite resources.”

Thinking World Reason Strong Audience Stupid Resources Fairs Machines Infinite Slave Giants Controlled Steel Obedient

Book:The Shock of the New

Source: The Shock of the New

“I know it’s stupid to not own a gun yet have so many triggers, but in some other world gigantic seashells hold humans to their ears and listen to the echo of machines.”

Knows World Humans Stupid Gun Machines Ears Echoes Triggers Other Worlds

Author:Jeffrey McDaniel

“I hope I am not too old to take it up seriously, nor too stupid about machines to qualify as a commercial pilot. I do not feel like spending the rest of my life writing books that no one will read. It is not as though I wanted to write them.”

Feels Writing Book Wanted Stupid Machines Spending Pilots Writing A Book

Author:Samuel Beckett

“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.”

World Would Be Dies Fall Perfect Powerful Achieve Stupid Weak Machines Gods Will Empowering Score Titans

Author:Rick Riordan

“The world will fall, the gods will die, and I will never achieve a perfect score on this stupid machine. -Dionysus”

World Dies Fall Perfect Achieve Stupid Machines Gods Will Score Dionysus

Author:Rick Riordan

“500 dollars? Fully subsidized? With a plan? I said that is the most expensive phone in the world. And it doesn't appeal to business customers because it doesn't have a keyboard. Which makes it not a very good email machine.”

People World Said Plans Stupid Machines Dollars Very Good Phones Customers Appeals Expensive Email Stupid People Iphone Keyboards

Author:Steve Ballmer

“Man is a slow, sloppy and brilliant thinker; the machine is fast, accurate and stupid.”

Men Humor Funny Technology Stupid Computer Machines Brilliant Thinker Accurate Sloppy

Author:William Moore Kelly

“For a long time it puzzled me how something so expensive, so leading edge, could be so useless. And then it occurred to me that a computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match.”