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So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too.
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girls
kurt-vonnegut
machines
manipulation
thinking
women
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Kurt Vonnegut |
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Nothing lasts forever, not even the best machines. And everything can be reused. - Hephaestus
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machines
the-lost-hero
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Rick Riordan |
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As for myself: I had come to the conclusion that there was nothing sacred about myself or any human being, that we were all machines, doomed to collide and collide and collide. For want of anything better to do, we became fans of collisions. Sometimes I wrote well about collisions, which meant I was a writing machine in good repair. Sometimes I wrote badly, which meant I was a writing machine in bad repair. I no more harbored sacredness than did a Pontiac, a mousetrap, or a South Bend Lathe.
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human
life
machines
relationships
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Kurt Vonnegut |
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In a properly automated and educated world, then, machines may prove to be the true humanizing influence. It may be that machines will do the work that makes life possible and that human beings will do all the other things that make life pleasant and worthwhile
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liberal-arts
machines
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Isaac Asimov |
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Youth is only being in a way like it might be an animal. No, it is not just like being an animal so much as being like one of these malenky toys you viddy being sold in the streets, like little chellovecks made out of tin and with a spring inside and then a winding handle on the outside and you wind it up grrr grrr grrr and off it itties, like walking, O my brothers. But it itties in a straight line and bangs straight into things bang bang and it cannot help what it is doing. Being young is like being like one of these malenky machines.
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machines
youth
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Anthony Burgess |
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For God's sake, let us be men not monkeys minding machines or sitting with our tails curled while the machine amuses us, the radio or film or gramophone. Monkeys with a bland grin on our faces.
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humanity
machines
monkeys
reflection
thought
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D.H. Lawrence |
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The clothes you're wearing, the room, the house, the city that you're in. Everything in it started out in the human imagination. Your lives, your personalities, your whole world. All invented. All made up. All the wars, the romances. The masterpieces and the machines. And there's nothing here but a funny little twist of amino acids, playing a marvelous game of pretend.
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cities
clothes
houses
life
machines
masterpieces
personalities
pretend
romances
rooms
wars
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Alan Moore |
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We don't value craftsmanship anymore! All we value is ruthless efficiency, and I say we deny our own humanity that way! Without appreciation for grace and beauty, there's no pleasure in creating things and no pleasure in having them! Our lives are made drearier, rather than richer! How can a person take pride in his work when skill and care are considered luxuries! We're not machines! We have a human need for craftsmanship!
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art
beauty
care
craftsmanship
creating
efficiency
grace
handmade
human
machines
pleasure
quality
quantity
skill
value
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Bill Watterson |
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A machine is more blameless, more sinless even than any animal. It has no intentions whatsoever but our own.
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machines
sin
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Ursula K. Le Guin |
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There's a sameness to streetlife. On every world I've ever been, the same underlying patterns play out, flaunt and vaunt, buy and sell, like some distilled essence of human behavior seeping out from whatever clanking political machine has been dropped on it from above.
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human-behaviour
machines
patterns
planets
political
science-fiction
streetlife
worlds
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Richard K. Morgan |