Talking Machine Company

Famous quotes containing the words talking, machine and/or company:

    “One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights.”
    —Simone Weil (1909–1943)

    “The cycle of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully on the barren surface of the moon.”
    —Lewis Mumford (1895–1990)

    “... we may remember what the Romans ... thought a cultivated person ought to be: one who knows how to choose his company among men, among things, among thoughts, in the present as well as in the past.”
    —Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)