John Howard Dellinger (1886–1962) American engineer
explaining why the engineer should not be viewed as a "mere tender of machines", as quoted by [Hugh Richard Slotten, Radio and television regulation, JHU Press, 2000, 080186450X, 62]
“Man becomes, as it were, the sex organs of the machine world, as the bee of the plant world, enabling it to fecundate and to evolve ever new forms. The machine world reciprocates man's love by expediting his wishes and desires, namely, in providing him with wealth. (p.46)”
Understanding Media (1964)
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Lewis Mumford (1895–1990) American historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology, and literary critic
Source: The Culture of Cities (1938), Ch. 7, sct. 16
Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali polymath
Sādhanā : The Realisation of Life http://www.spiritualbee.com/spiritual-book-by-tagore/ (1916) <br class="br">Context: Of course man is useful to man, because his body is a marvellous machine and his mind an organ of wonderful efficiency. But he is a spirit as well, and this spirit is truly known only by love. When we define a man by the market value of the service we can expect of him, we know him imperfectly. With this limited knowledge of him it becomes easy for us to be unjust to him and to entertain feelings of triumphant self-congratulation when, on account of some cruel advantage on our side, we can get out of him much more than we have paid for. But when we know him as a spirit we know him as our own. We at once feel that cruelty to him is cruelty to ourselves, to make him small is stealing from our own humanity...
Gilles Deleuze (1925–1995) French philosopher
from Dialogues with Claire Parnet, p. 147 [emphasis in original].
George Washington Plunkitt (1842–1924) New York State Senator
Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 10, Brooklynites Natural-Born Hayseeds
“Man such as we know him, is a machine.”
G. I. Gurdjieff (1866–1949) influential spiritual teacher, Armenian philosopher, composer and writer
In Search of the Miraculous (1949)
Ralph Waldo Emerson book Nature
Nature, Addresses and Lectures. The American Scholar <br class="br">1830s, The American Scholar http://www.emersoncentral.com/amscholar.htm (1837) <br class="br">Variant: If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him. 6.
Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) Serbian American inventor
The last line is about having to take up a job
My Inventions (1919)
