Bertrand Russell Machine Quotations

Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.

Machines deprive us of two things which are certainly important ingredients of human happiness, namely, spontaneity and variety.

Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.

Calculating machines do sums better than even the cleverest people… As arithmetic has grown easier, it has come to be less respected.

The mind is a strange machine which can combine the materials offered to it in the most astonishing ways.

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.