Control Loss Quotes

People are just beginning to learn how much their own personal privacy is being invaded and that they’re losing control over their own information.

As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes.

Things have changed a great deal since the days of Mr. Mayer. The studios no longer control, as they did in those days, artists or directors or producers, as the case may be.

Once you have lost control over your people, you are on the road toward a potentially democratic society.

Calling upon my years of experience, I froze at the controls.

It would be immoral to leave young people with a climate system spiraling out of control.

Managers don't have as much leverage as they used to have. We can't really be the boss.

Your twisting is done--you have the last thread of my heart. I wonder: when the thread grows slack, will you feel it?

I am all for your using machines, but do not let them use you.

My take is that A.I. is taking over. A few humans might still be 'in charge,' but less and less so.

As you sit there and as I sit here, they are going in. They're taking over, and they just walk in and they can do whatever they want. They have essentially already taken it over.

Too many women have given up the power over the years because men have created the terms.

It no longer matters who consider themselves the masters of events. Events no longer obey their masters.

The farther we get from God, the more the world spirals out of control.

The music industry used to be able to control a single dance on the very smallest level of when people are supposed to hear it, and when they're supposed to start liking it, and when they're supposed to start buying it. And that's trashed, you know, that big machine that takes control and works albums for a long period.

The powers that be understand that sexual freedom or liberation with any kind of joy means they are losing control.

Our culture difinitely takes an egocentric dominator view. The fear of the psychedelic experience is quite literally the fear of losing control. Dominator types today don't understand that it's not important to maintain control if you are not in control in the first place.

One reason you should not use web applications to do your computing is that you lose control. It's just as bad as using a proprietary program. Do your own computing on your own computer with your copy of a freedom-respecting program. If you use a proprietary program or somebody else's web server, you're defenceless.

The elites - or managers in companies - no longer control the conversation. This is how insurrections start.

There's a big difference between sending your art in a statement or something like that, and sending yourself there. When you send yourself somewhere, then you are sharing your information uncontrollably - like all yourself.

One reason you should not use web applications to do your computing is that you lose control.

Simply put, the Internet undermines the ability of an institution to control its own narrative.

If someone does something we disapprove of, we regard him as bad if we believe we can deter him from persisting in his conduct, but we regard him as mad if we believe we cannot. In either case, the crucial issue is our control of the other: the more we lose control over him, and the more he assumes control over himself, the more, in case of conflict, we are likely to consider him mad rather than just bad.