The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.
As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man.
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.
Intolerance is evidence of impotence.
If we're going to achieve compassion in the machines and also feel safe with the machines, to raise machines with human-like values, we need to make them human-like by simulating, or perhaps eventually imitating, human beings in high accuracy from top to bottom.
For a long time, I felt instinctively irritated - sometimes repelled - by scientific friends' automatic use of the word 'mechanism' for automatic bodily processes. A machine was man-made; it was not a sentient being; a man was not a machine.
The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.
It's so empowering to see yourself as a machine.
Progressively saved by the machine from the anxieties that bound his hands and mind to material toil, relieved of a large part of his work and compelled to an ever-increasing speed of action by the devices which his intelligence cannot help ceaselessly creating and perfecting, man is about to find himself abruptly plunged into idleness.
Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?
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