We cannot afford to raise any institution to the rank of a fetish. To do so would be simply to become the slaves of our own machinery.
I am convinced that words are things, and we simply don't have the machinery to measure what they are. I believe that words are tangible things.
The din of politicians speechifying about the war, the faux moral posturing of opinion-makers who claim to speak in the name of 'the troops,' everything that Iraq has come to represent in the American imagination - it all melts away in the 115-degree heat. What's left is the machinery of a war that, having been called into being by civilians, no longer bears a relation to anything they say.
It is great to be a part of big-budget movies, but it is harder to feel like you are contributing, in the sense that it has such big machinery behind it.
AI is not just heading for our industry, it will radically change the machinery we use in marketing.
Prayer meetings are the throbbing machinery of the church.
There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America.
In that moment, the machinery of the world lined up. Somewhere a clock struck midnight, and Hugo's future seemed to fall perfectly into place.
Idiots emit bogons, causing machinery to malfunction in their presence. System administrators absorb bogons, letting machinery work again.
There's nothing more arrogant or conceited than youth, and there's nothing other than machinery that can replace youth.
But a rise in the wages of labour would not equally affect commodities produced with machinery quickly consumed, and commodities produced with machinery slowly consumed.
No, ordinary behaviour. The efficient half eats the less efficient half and grows stronger. War is just a violent way of doing what half the people do calmly in peacetime: using the other half for food, heat, machinery and sexual pleasure. Man is the pie that bakes and eats himself, and the recipe is separation.
The merry-go-round was running, yes, but. . . It was running backward. The small calliope inside the carousel machinery rattle-snapped its nervous-stallion shivering drums, clashed its harvest-moon cymbals, toothed its castanets, and throatily choked and sobbed its reeds, whistles, and baroque flutes.
The duty of labor is written on a man's body: in the stout muscle of the arm,, and the delicate machinery of the hand.
Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe.
Order in a house ought to be like the machinery in opera, whose effect produces great pleasure, but whose ends must be hid.
Some of us, for better or worse, develop very stable, consistent, and largely predictable machineries of self. But in others, the self machinery is more flexible and more open to unexpected turns.
We are moving rapidly into a world in which the spying machinery is built into every object we encounter.
Technocracy wants to do everything by machinery. Machinery is doing just fine. If it can't kill you, it will put you out of work.
The unvarnished truth is that we have spent the last decade funding the machinery of war, and our children have been sacrificed.