What did John Brunner mean by: First you use machines, then you wear machines, and then …? Then you serve machines. - John Brunner Author · United Kingdom Copy
+ To go faster you must slow down. Feraz Zeid, September 13, 2023December 24, 2023, John Brunner, Learn, Slow Down, Teaching, 0 - John Brunner Author · United Kingdom
+ It’s supposed to be automatic but actually you have to press this button. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, John Brunner, Technology, 0 - John Brunner Author · United Kingdom
+ What in Gods name is it worth to be human, if we have to be saved from ourselves by a machine? Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, John Brunner, Human, Machines, 0 - John Brunner Author · United Kingdom
+ I’m myself, not a label. Feraz Zeid, September 9, 2023December 24, 2023, John Brunner, 0 - John Brunner Author · United Kingdom
+ Who should know better than a cosmetician that human beings are less than rational creatures? Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, John Brunner, Human, Rational, 0 - John Brunner Author · United Kingdom
+ Pay him what was promised, said the caliph. “And put out his eyes.” Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, John Brunner, Cynical, Eye, Pay, 0 - John Brunner Author · United Kingdom
+ Don’t bother explaining–I’ve heard all the excuses and the trouble is most of them are true. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, John Brunner, Excuse, Trouble, 0 - John Brunner Author · United Kingdom
+ You have many years to live do things you will be proud to remember when you’re old. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, John Brunner, Proud, Remember, 0 - John Brunner Author · United Kingdom
To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity. - Lewis Mumford Historian · USA
If you can make it sound exciting with a joke drum machine, you know you’ve got something. - Jeff Beck
I don’t speak … I operate a machine called language. It creaks and groans, but is mine own. - Frank Herbert Author · USA
After all, it is we who adapt to the machine. The machine does not adapt to us. - Friedrich Kittler Media theorist · Germany
The sewing machine joins what the scissors have cut asunder, plus whatever else comes in its path. - Mason Cooley Professor · USA