I see no reason to suppose that these machines will ever force themselves into general use.
1st Duke of Wellington
For most purposes, a man with a machine is better than a man without a machine.
It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.
I don't use machines - animals don't use machines.
I am all for your using machines, but do not let them use you.
Machines don't use machines.
We are looking at a society increasingly dependent on machines, yet decreasingly capable of making or even using them effectively.
One of the objections most frequently urged against machinery is, that it has a tendency to supersede much of the handlabour which was previously employed; and in fact unless a machine diminished the labour necessary to make an article, it could never come into use.
See {43974} for a succinct statement of the objections.