Michael Bloomberg Quotes

Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable.

Sexual gratification can only be achieved through the use of machines.

Machines deprive us of two things which are certainly important ingredients of human happiness, namely, spontaneity and variety.

If there are two or more ways to do something and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it.

The Ignorance the people live in leads them to commit mistakes against their own happiness

Heaven knows, we all make mistakes. That's life - and chess.

Quotation mistakes, inadvertency, expedition, and human lapses, may make not only moles but warts in learned authors.

The machines men are so intent on making have carried them very far from the old sweet things.

The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

How innocent we are of our mistakes and how we responsible we are for them.

Our failure was that our intelligence community thought [Saddam Hussein ] had stockpiled weapons of mass destruction. That was a mistake. There is fallibility in human intelligence and in human decisions.

You should be allowed to rub out and start again, it means that you are human. The purists are tedious, they tell you a mistake is like an enduring black mark. Nonsense -- better to be human than some infernal machine never going wrong.

There's no perfect coach in the world. Coaches are human, too. Mistakes are made. But, fundamentally, if you're sound, you eliminate as many mistakes as possible.

I quite like mistakes. I think they're human.

The things he did on purpose were usually no different from the mistakes he made by accident.

[Black Mirror] is always about unforeseen consequences and unforeseen problems, it's not usually that someone's created a machine that they want to enslave mankind with, it's someone's invented a new kind of... paperweight that enslaves mankind.

I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being--forgive me--rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.

I forsee a marked deterioration in American musicand a host of other injuries to music in its artistic manifestations, by virtue—or rather by vice—of the multiplication of the various music-reproducing machines

Even a poet cannot get everything right.

A good player who loses at chess is genuinely convinced hat he has lost because of a mistake, and he looks for this mistake in the beginning of his game, but forgets that there were also mistakes at ever step in the course of the game, that none of his moves was perfect. The mistake he pays attention to is conspicuous only because his opponent took advantage of it.

Nowadays, with digital printing, it's so easy to make everything perfect, which is not always a good idea. Sometimes the mistakes are really what make a piece.

The truth was, history repeated itself on a daily basis; mistakes were made over and over. People were haunted by what they had done, and by what they hadn't had time to do.

Sex wasn't God's big mistake. Judging against sex was humanity's big mistake. Pleasure is as divine as any cathedral, any temple.

I fear that I can no longer travel without technology. Twenty years ago, I loved getting on a bus in West Africa and taking off for a city I'd never been to before, relying on advice from out-of-date travel books and fellow passengers on the bus. Now, I end up using TripAdvisor, Yelp, and Google Maps. I probably eat and sleep better when I'm on the road, but I miss the mystery of travel when it was more random and unpredictable.

To see a man slip on a banana skin is to see a rationally structured system suddenly translated into a whirling machine.