113 Quotes About Machine

life without hope is like body without soul. It is no better than a machine or robot.

The bank wanted me to sell those customers that debt, because the system needs you to buy that new car, that holiday to Barbados, that latest iPhone or that new extension you’ve always been dreaming off. The banks are happy to let you do it with their high interest credit products, and they want me to be the guy that sells the idea to you. I was serving the machine that was enslaving me.

What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment . . . inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery than ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose.

How is logic like a machine? Here is how one logician explained it around the turn of the twentieth century: "As a material machine is an instrument for economising the exertion of force, so a symbolic calculus is an instrument for economising the exertion of intelligence." Logic, just like a machine, was a tool for democratizing force: built with enough precision and skill, it could multiply the power of the gifted and the average alike.

Testing with the CPAP machine revealed that it was triggering altitude sickness symptoms after waking, specifically ‘Descent Fatigue’ during the daytime.

CPAP never really worked for me and it was a few years later that the medical profession discovered I had positional sleep apnea that needed treatment with a positional device, not a CPAP machine.

The war of the ghosts and the machines is the war between mathematics and science. There can be only one winner – mathematics. Dimensionless mathematics is the noumenal ghost at the heart of the dimensional, phenomenal, scientific machine.

Humanity has dehumanised itself and now sees itself in purely machine terms … from which terrible consequences are flowing. Humanity progressively sees itself in machinelike terms in the belief that this would solve all of our problems, but, in fact, it has simply made them worse.

Right, well. If I’m just another cog, maybe I can’t leave the machine, but from this moment I’m not turning. I’m jammed.