Machine Influence Quotes

It's our machines and our technologies that are now the major evolutionary forces acting upon us. It's not our political systems.

Truly what the Emmys are about are the machine behind them, and Oscars are the same way, where if you have a big enough machine behind you, you get nominated, because truly how many of the best performances actually win... not many.

The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture.

It seems like everything that we see perceived in the brain before we actually use our own eyes, that everything we see is coming through computers or machines and then is being input in our brain cells. So that really worries me.

To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.

Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.

None of the modern machines, none of the modern paraphernalia. . . have any power except over the people who choose to use them.

The machine does not control the mind of man, though it affects the mind of man; it is the mind of man that can and should control the machine.

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

A funny thing about women and machines: the combination made men curious.

Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.

Mephistopheles, the machine man, can provide us with all the means, and is thus likely to determine the aims of life as well. But of course the characteristic of Faust, which makes him eligible to be saved, is that he seeks aims that are not those of the machine.

The whole publicity machine is a very weird one. It's kind of a necessary part of what we do here, but this helps me keep grounded.