#machine

The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#civilization #greatest #instead #machines #make

I think I was lucky to come of age in a place and time - the American South in the 1960s and '70s - when the machine hadn't completely taken over life. The natural world was still the world, and machines - TV, telephone, cars - were still more or less ancillary, and computers were unheard of in everyday life. ↗

— Ben Fountain

#american #cars #come #completely #computers

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. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#because #being #cast #chair #coffee

The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book. ↗

— Northrop Frye

#efficient #ever #invented #machine #man

The more a person learns how to use the forces of nature for his own purposes, by means of perfecting the sciences and the invention and improvement of machines, the more he will produce. ↗

— Friedrich List

#his #how #improvement #invention #learns

If the worst thing that can happen is that nobody laughs, then I can deal with that, because the worst thing that can happen at the factory is that I could lose a limb or be crushed by a huge machine. ↗

— George Lopez

#could #crushed #deal #factory #happen

We need to reform our school lunch programs. We need to get healthy items into the vending machines. ↗

— Joan Lunden

#healthy #into #items #lunch #machines

Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery. ↗

— Horace Mann

#conditions #devices #education #equalizer #great

The point is that life for me is not going to be the way it is for everyone else. I have a fog machine and movie lights in my bedroom. ↗

— Marilyn Manson

#else #everyone #fog #going #i

I try to keep my ear to the streets without sacrificing who I am as an artist. If a song needs a drum machine I'll use a drum machine. If it needs a drummer, I'll use a real drummer. ↗

— Teena Marie

#artist #drum #drummer #ear #i