Quote by Simone Weil
Nothing is less instructive than a machine. - Simone Weil

Nothing is less instructive than a machine. – Simone Weil

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As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man. – Ernst Fischer

For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer. – Thomas Carlyle

If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would be perfect. The painter and sculptor would have plenty to do, and could, in complete peace and suitably honored, pursue their trade without further trouble. – Percy Wynham Lewis

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. – Edward Dahlberg

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