It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We're all men, not machines. We make mistakes.
When a machine can do something better and faster than a person can, I am happy to let the machine do it.
It's so empowering to see yourself as a machine.
Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man.
The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.
Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.
Now that we all live in a bad '70s sci-fi movie, I am made to understand the tyranny of the machines every minute of every day.
Unlike us, machines do not have a 'nature' consistent across vast reaches of time. They are, at least to begin with, whatever we set in motion - with an inbuilt tendency towards the exponential.
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.
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