Quotes About Control

the new order promised stability, where for years there had been only chaos.

He found it hard to understand that the sea was a law unto itself, beyond anyone's control.

His hours of sleep were no more fixed than those of his meals.

we program our computers and thereafter they program us. Even

The airplane was a complicated system encompassing many components, but to a skilled pilot it still had the intimate quality of a hand tool. The love that lays the swale in rows is also the love that parts the clouds for the stick-and-rudder man.

When an inscrutable technology becomes an invisible technology, we would be wise to be concerned. At that point, the technology's assumptions and intentions have infiltrated our own desires and actions. We no longer know whether the software is aiding s or controlling us. We're behind the wheel, but we can't be sure who's driving.

As long as algorithms determine the distribution of profits, they will also determine what gets published. The

Through our tools, we seek to expand our power and control over our circumstances—over nature, over time and distance, over one another.

To cede choices about the texture of our daily lives to a grand abstraction called progress is folly

Learning how to think' really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think," said the novelist David Foster Wallace in a commencement address at Kenyon College in 2005.

When an inscrutable technology becomes an invisible technology, we would be wise to be concerned. At that point, the technology's assumptions and intentions have infiltrated our own desires and actions. We no longer know whether the software is aiding us or controlling us. We're behind the wheel, but we can't be sure who's driving.

Automation tends to turn us from actors into observers. Instead of manipulating the yoke, we watch the screen. That shift may make our lives easier, but it can also inhibit our ability to learn and to develop expertise.

Rather than allowing technology to control us, Mumford implied, we can control technology—if only we can muster the courage to exert the full power of our free will over the machines we make.

In the most extreme expression of the determinist view, human beings become little more than "the sex organs of the machine world,

sharecroppers operate happily in an attention economy while their overseers operate happily in a cash economy.

In programming the World Wide Computer, we will be programming our lives.

What matters to the children's well-being isn't so much the level of the family's wealth as whether it is controlled by the mother or the father.

1266What matters to the children's well-being isn't so much the level of the family's wealth as whether it is controlled by the mother or the father.

Although he may not always recognize his bondage, modern man lives under a tyranny of numbers.

It's a lot like nuts and bolts - if the rider's nuts, the horse bolts!

It's a lot like nuts and bolts - if the rider's nuts, the horse bolts!

Where is the man who has the power and skill To stem the torrent of a woman's will?' Anonymous

A writer can never have complete command or mastery over what s/he writes. Neither can a reader.

Emotions come and go and can't be controlled so there's no reason to worry about them. That in the end, people should be judged by their actions since in the end it was actions that defined everyone.