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“The mind is a machine that is constantly asking: What would I prefer? Close your eyes, refuse to move, and watch what your mind does. What it does is become discontent with that-which-is. A desire arises, you satisfy that desire, and another arises in its place.”

Mind Doe Eye Moving Desire Watches Machines Asking Refuse Arise Discontent

Book:The Brain-Dead Megaphone

Source: The Brain-Dead Megaphone

“I'm not terribly technological. I'm awfully backward about iPads and BlackBerries and suchlike; I still have a great fondness for Teletext, and I clung onto my fax machine for as long as I could, but eventually you have to move with the times.”

Long Stills Moving Machines Technological Fondness Ipads Blackberries Fax Fax Machines

Author:David Tang

“I would go to bed every night and have dreams about having a time machine and somehow I'd have the ability to move through time and space freely, and save Anne Frank.”

Dream Moving Night Ability Space Bed Machines Frank Every Night Time And Space Rough Times Time Machine

Author:Jeff Mangum

“The world, nature, human beings, do not move like machines. The edges are never clear-cut, but always frayed. Nature never draws a line without smudging it.”

World Humans Moving Science Nature Natural Lines Human Beings Clear Cutting Draws Machines Edges

Book:Great destiny: sixty years of the memorable events in the life of the man of the century recounted in his own incomparable words

Source: Great destiny: sixty years of the memorable events in the life of the man of the century recounted in his own incomparable words

“Moving from chair to chair, from coffee machine to coffee machine is the limit of my action in most films. But I enjoy being cast in them because I love watching them.”

Action Film Moving Enjoy Comedy Limits Machines Casts Coffee Chairs

Author:Stephen Fry

“the State only aims at instilling those qualities in its public by which its demands are obeyed, and its exchequer is filled. Its highest attainment is the reduction of mankind to clockwork. In its atmosphere all those finer and more delicate liberties, which require treatment and spacious expansion, inevitably dry up and perish. The State requires a taxpaying machine in which there is no hitch, an exchequer in which there is never a deficit, and a public, monotonous, obedient, colorless, spiritless, moving humbly like a flock of sheep along a straight high road between two walls.”

“Making movies is time-consuming and it's boring. You spend most of your time waiting between takes. It's like a big machine that moves slowly.”

Bigs Moving Waiting Machines Boring Consuming Time Consuming

Author:Eddie Murphy

“The aim of industrialization has always been to replace people with machines or other technology, to make the cost of production as low as possible, to sell the product as high as possible, and to move the wealth into fewer and fewer hands.”

People Hands Moving Wealth Technology Products Cost Lows Machines Aim Sells Productions Fewer Industrialization

Author:Wendell Berry