Frank Herbert Quotes

If India becomes the slave of the machine, then, I say, heaven save the world.

Sometimes you might think the machines we worship make all the chief appointments, promoting the human beings who seem closest to them.

I can't be a slave to the machine, you feel like you're in the matrix.

... as the world rapidly becomes a civilization of machines, the masters of machines will increasingly be the ones in control of the world.

In the end the question is: Who is to be master, man or his machines? As long as the control over technology rests primarily on economic calculation, the victor is not likely to be man.

The technological revolution has the potential to liberate us or enslave us, and the road we take will depend on our politics.

We are becoming the servants in thought, as in action of the machine we have created to serve us.

First you use machines, then you wear machines, and then ...? Then you serve machines.

We are looking at a society increasingly dependent on machines, yet decreasingly capable of making or even using them effectively.

If you own a machine, you are in turn owned by it, and spend your time serving it.

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

I think there's a tendency for modern man to become dominated by gadgets and machines, taking us further and further away from the things I've been talking about.

Men have become the tools of their tools.

I don't like being victimized by a machine or by other people's demands on my time. I become resentful by feeling forced or incentivized to live a life I don't want to live. That rage in general prevents me from entirely becoming enslaved by technology.

Man’s freedom is lacking if somebody else controls what he needs, for need may result in man’s enslavement of man..

These new technologies are not yet inevitable. But if they blossom fully into being, freedom may irrevocably perish.

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots.

if we make technology the predestined force in our lives, man will walk to the measure of its demands. We know how leveling that influence can be, how easy it is to computerize man and make him a servile thing in a vast industrial complex. ... This means we must subject the machine -- technology -- to control…

… obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men, and of the human frame A mechanized automaton.

We do not ride upon the railroad. It rides upon us.

Technology is like the 666 because it controls us.

Now that we all live in a bad '70s sci-fi movie, I am made to understand the tyranny of the machines every minute of every day.

Deskilling devices - they make us dumber. We're immersed in a system that now requires the use of a cell phone just to get around, just to function, and so the logic of that cell phone has been imposed on us.

Our faith in technology is no longer fully consistent with our belief in liberty.

We can become slaves to things we don't understand