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I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly. - Eric Temple Bell, "Mathematical Circles Adieu" by H. Eves As machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like machines. - Joseph Wood Krutch Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers. - Karl Marx By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed. - Lewis Mumford To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity. - Lewis Mumford 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. - Bertrand Arthur William Russell They are usually denominated labor-saving machines, but it would be more just to call them labor-doing machines. - Daniel Webster
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