“What sort of personality does one need to have, as a twenty-first-century mechanic, to tolerate the layers of electronic bullshit that get piled on top of machines?” NeedsFirstsDoeCenturyPersonalityMachinesTwentiesLayersTolerateBullshitMechanic Book:The Case for Working with Your Hands: Or Why Office Work is Bad for Us and Fixing Things Feels Good Source: The Case for Working with Your Hands: Or Why Office Work is Bad for Us and Fixing Things Feels Good
“I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality.” GivingIdeasTechnologyPersonalityMachines Author:J. J. Abrams
“In a sense, every tool is a machine--the hammer, the ax, and the chisel. And every machine is a tool. The real distinction is between one man using a tool with his hands and producing an object that shows at every stage the direction of his will and the impression of his personality; and a machine which is producing, without the intervention of a particular man, objects of a uniformity and precision that show no individual variation and have no personal charm. The problem is to decide whether the objects of machine production can possess the essential qualities of art.” MenArtRealShowsProblemHandsIndividualQualityStageObjectsParticularPersonalityEssentialsToolsMachinesProductionsImpressionCharmDistinctionOne ManInterventionHammersVariationPrecisionUniformityChisels Author:Herbert Read
“I actually think the only way that you can beat Trump is recognizing that he is a one- man wrecking machine fueled by this cult personality. So you have to attack him on those bases. None of these ideological positioning issues matter for [Donald] Trump.” ThinkingMenWayMatterIssuesPersonalityTrumpBeatsMachinesBasesOne ManCultRecognizingIdeological Author:Bernie Sanders
“We now demand glamour and fast-flowing dramatic action. A generation of Christians reared among push buttons and automatic machines is impatient of slower and less direct methods of reaching their goals...The tragic results of this spirit all all about us: shallow lives, hollow religious philosophies...the glorification of men, trust is religious externalities....salesmanship methods, the mistaking of dynamic personality for the power of the Spirit. These and such of these are the symptoms of an evil disease.” MenPhilosophyInspirationActionChristianSpiritEvilGoalReligiousResultsGenerationsPersonalityDemandDiseaseDirectMachinesMethodDramaticReachingTragicButtonsShallowSymptomsHollowGlamourImpatientReligious PhilosophySalesmanshipGlorificationExternalitiesDynamic Personality Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer