Human Control Quotes

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

Each new power won by man is a power over man as well.

The other effect that I worry about is the effect on the parent, that the moral teaching of humility and of the limits to our control that parenthood teaches- - that that will be lost and that we will begin to think of children more as consumer goods than as gifts that we can't fully control and for which we aren't fully responsible.

Natural science is one of man's weapons in his fight for freedom .... man must ... conquer and change nature and thus attain freedom from nature.

A group of reptilian humanoids, called the Babylonian Brotherhood, control humanity.

Although technology is proceeding at a dizzying pace, I believe that the human mind will always have control of itself. And since the human mind has a degree of infinity and imagination unlikely to be matched by a machine for a very, very long time, I don't think that we will become the machines of the machines.

The mortal enemies of man are not his fellows of another continent or race; they are the aspects of the physical world which limit or challenge his control, the disease germs that attack him and his domesticated plants and animals, and the insects that carry many of these germs as well as working notable direct injury. This is not the age of man, however great his superiority in size and intelligence; it is literally the age of insects.

The whole point is, I feel the machine should be eliminated. Now that it has served its purpose of alerting us to the dangers of machine control.

I just don't believe people can tame animals.

Our future may lie beyond our vision, but it is not completely beyond our control. It is the shaping impulse of America that neither fate nor nature nor the irresistible tides of history, but the work of our own hands, matched to reason and principle.

The mortal enemies of man are not his fellows of another continent or race; they are the aspects of the physical world which limit or challenge his control, the disease germs that attack him and his domesticated plants and animals, and the insects that carry many of these germs as well as working notable direct injury.

The economy is not immutable; it's not about natural laws. It's about rules, and we make the rules.

Man now has the power to put an end to his own history.

The highest art form of all is a human being in control of himself and his airplane in flight, urging the spirit of a machine to match his own.

Men at some time are masters of their fates.

The story of automation is the story of a one-way shift from human control to automatic control.

So utterly at variance is Destiny with all the little plans of men.

We have the prospect of intervening in the natural lottery.

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

If "Number rules the universe" as Pythagoras asserted, Number is merely our delegate to the throne, for we rule Number.

"Civilization rests on two things," said Hitzig; "the discovery that fermentation produces alcohol, and voluntary ability to inhibit defecation. And I put it to you, where would this splendidly civilized occasion be without both?"

What man's mind can create, man's character can control.

Television is the triumph of machine over people.

It troubles me that we are so easily pressured by purveyors of technology into permitting so-called "progress" to alter our lives without attempting to control it-as if technology were an irrepressible force of nature to which we must meekly submit.

Visualization is the human being's vehicle to the future - good, bad, or indifferent. It's strictly in our control.