“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.” MayStillsIdeasReasonRealityIndividualFunSinPleasureMorningStupidColdGoodnessMachinesBetrayalDumbNosesDawnPleasantGood TimesGrayGoing OutDiscipleshipAdulterySinningMorning AfterLove JealousyResidual Book:Kingdom, Grace, Judgment: Paradox, Outrage, and Vindication in the Parables of Jesus 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.” ThinkingWorldReasonStrongAudienceStupidResourcesFairsMachinesInfiniteSlaveGiantsControlledSteelObedient 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.” KnowsWorldHumansStupidGunMachinesEarsEchoesTriggersOther 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.” FeelsWritingBookWantedStupidMachinesSpendingPilotsWriting A Book Author:Samuel Beckett