“Well, Congress gave us a billion dollars to dig the hole, this gigantic hole. Bigger, much bigger than the hole in Geneva, Switzerland. Then they canceled the machine and gave us a second billion dollars to fill up the hole. Two billion dollars to dig a hole and fill it up. That is the wisdom of the United States Congress and it really makes you wonder: Is there intelligent life on the Earth? Certainly not in the United States Congress.” WellsTwoStatesEarthUnitedWonderUnited StatesMachinesBiggerIntelligentDollarsCongressBillionsHolesSwitzerlandGenevaIntelligent Life Author:Michio Kaku
“" many seemingly independent businessmen or craftsman are more or less well paid retainers of larger corporations, such as the cobbler, operating a United States shoe machine or an automobile dealer holding a license of the General Motors Corporation."” WellsStatesUnitedUnited StatesMachinesPaidIndependentShoesCorporationsBusinessmanLicenseMotorAutomobileDealerCraftsmanGeneral MotorsCobblersRetainers Author:Paul A. Baran
“All the new technology seems redundant to me. I was quite happy with the United States mail service. And, I don't even have an answering machine, for God's sake.” StatesSeemsUnitedTechnologyUnited StatesMachinesSakeMailNew TechnologyRedundantAnswering MachinesMail Service Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“We must understand what our idea of wealth is. Is it just about more buildings, more machines, more cars, more of everything? More and more is death. In the most affluent societies in the world, for example in the United States of America, a significant percentage of the population is on anti-depressants on a regular basis. If you just withdraw one particular medication from the market, almost half the nation will go crazy. That is not wellbeing. Generally, an American citizen has everything that anyone would dream of.” IfsWorldIdeasStatesDreamAmericaNationsWealthUnitedHalfUnited StatesCrazyCarExampleBuildingParticularCitizensMachinesBasesPopulationSignificantUnited States Of AmericaPercentagesWellbeingMedicationAmerican CitizensAffluenceAffluentDepressants Author:Jaggi Vasudev
“National law has no place in cyberlaw. Where is cyberspace? If you don't like banking laws in the United States, set up your machine on the Grand Cayman Islands. Don't like the copyright laws in the United States? Set up your machine in China. Cyberlaw is global law, which is not going to be easy to handle, since we seemingly cannot even agree on world trade of automobile parts.” IfsWorldStatesLawEasyUnitedUnited StatesMachinesAgreeTradeChinaHandleIslandsBankingAutomobileCopyrightWorld TradeCyberspaceCopyright LawCayman Islands Author:Nicholas Negroponte
“Now we're in a situation where democracy has been taken into the workshop and fixed, remodeled to be market-friendly. So now the United States is fighting wars to instal democracies. First it was topple them, now it's instal them, right? And this whole rise of corporate-funded NGOs in the modern world, this notion of CSR, corporate social responsibility - it's all part of a New Managed Democracy. In that sense, it's all part of the same machine.” WorldFirstsHas BeensWarStatesWholeFightingSocialUnitedResponsibilitySituationUnited StatesDemocracyTakenModernMachinesNotionCorporateFixedFriendlySocial ResponsibilityModern WorldWorkshopsDemocracies HaveCorporate Social Responsibility Author:Arundhati Roy
“The demonstration that no possible combination of known substances, known forms of machinery and known forms of force, can be united in a practical machine by which men shall fly along distances through the air, seems to the writer as complete as it is possible for the demonstration to be.” MenSeemsFormForceSpaceUnitedKnownAirFutureMachinesDistancePracticalsCombinationSubstanceAirplaneMachineryDemonstrationLong DistanceFlying Machines Author:Simon Newcomb
“The United States has its own propaganda, but it's very effective because people don't realize that it's propaganda. And it's subtle, but it's actually a much stronger propaganda machine than the Nazis had but it's funded in a different way.” PeopleWayDifferentStatesRealizingUnitedUnited StatesMachinesStrongerPropagandaDifferent WaysSubtleNazi Author:Crispin Glover
“Facebook in particular is the most appalling spying machine that has ever been invented. Here we have the world's most comprehensive database about people, their relationships, their names, their addresses, their locations and the communications with each other, their relatives, all sitting within the United States, all accessible to US intelligence. Facebook, Google, Yahoo.. all these major US organizations have built-in interfaces for US intelligence. It's not a matter of serving a subpoena. They have an interface that they have developed for US intelligence to use.” PeopleWorldMatterStatesUseNamesUnitedUnited StatesParticularCommunicationMajorsSittingBuiltMachinesOrganizationAddressesServingGoogleLocationComprehensiveInterfacesDatabasesSubpoenas Author:Julian Assange