Men and Machines
“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”
Frank Herbert, Dune
“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”
Frank Herbert, Dune
I came across this quote while listening to Sean Illing interview Fareed Zakaria about his new book, Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present, on The Gray Area podcast.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us. I also know that if we are to live ourselves there comes a point at which we must relinquish the dead, let them go, keep them dead. Let them become the photograph on the table. Let them become the name on the trust accounts. Let go of them in the water. Knowing this does not make it any easier to let go of him in the water.
The Year of Magical Thinking (Joan Didion)
I came across this quote on a post from Jason Kottke's site.
Especially since most minimalists want to keep exactly the economic and police system that keeps them privileged. That’s libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.
Green Mars (Kim Stanley Robinson)