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"As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man."

Ernst Fischer, Austrian Writer

Technology, Greatness, Imperfection, Machines, Man

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"As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man."

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"The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster."

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