Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)
Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007) American writer
On evolution vs. "intelligent design", interviewed by Jon Stewart, The Daily Show http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=18090&title=kurt-vonnegut/ (13 September 2005) <br class="br">Various interviews
“Evolution is a tinkerer, not an engineer.”
François Jacob Evolution and tinkering
Evolution and tinkering (1977)
“As we are human, we can't do what we can't do; as we're neurotic, we can't do what we can.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Neurotics and neurosis
“Human evolution should be humane evolution.”
Lydia Canaan Lebanese singer-songwriter
From Humane Evolution http://www.quartetbooks.wordpress.com/2015/03/19/the-love-bird-from-the-mountains-of-lebanon/, a speech delivered at the 28th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, March 13, 2015
“I can think of no more stirring symbol of man’s humanity to man than a fire engine.”
Kurt Vonnegut book The Sirens of Titan
Source: The Sirens of Titan (1959), Chapter 10 “An Age of Miracles” (p. 242)
“The writer is the engineer of the human soul.”
Joseph Stalin (1879–1953) General secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Said by Stalin at a meeting of fifty top Soviet writers at Maxim Gorky's house in Moscow (26 October 1932), as quoted in Simon Sebag Montefiore's Stalin: the Court of the Red Tsar, p. 85, and Edvard Radzinsky's Stalin, pp. 259-63. Primary source: K. Zelinsky's contemporary record of the event. It was published in English in Stalin and the Literary Intelligentsia,. (1991) by А. Kemp-Welch, Basingstoke and London, pp. 12-31.
Contemporary witnesses
L. S. Lowry (1887–1976) British visual artist
Maitland Tapes-interview with Prof. Hugh Maitland 1970 L. S. Lowry - A Biography by Shelley Rhode Lowry Press 1999 ISBN 9781902970011.
Maitland Tapes
African Spir (1837–1890) Russian philosopher
Source: Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir (1937), p. 61.
Richard Dawkins (1941) English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author
[Dawkins, Richard, Richard Dawkins, Why don't animals have wheels?, Sunday Times, November 24, 1996, http://www.simonyi.ox.ac.uk/dawkins/WorldOfDawkins-archive/Dawkins/Work/Articles/1996-11-24wheels.shtml, October 29, 2008, http://web.archive.org/web/20070221073440/http://www.simonyi.ox.ac.uk/dawkins/WorldOfDawkins-archive/Dawkins/Work/Articles/1996-11-24wheels.shtml, February 21, 2007]
