Quotes About Control

It's cool to use the computer, don't let the computer use you…. There is a war going on. The battlefield's in the mind. And the prize is the soul.

a fascist corporate theme park where the few people who can still afford the price of admission no longer have an ounce of freedom.

The weapon had a built-in timer that would prevent it from firing for another twelve hours (a "cooling-off period") (...).

I took control of a Happy Helpdesk avatar, a cookie-cutter Ken doll that I used to take tech-support calls. This avatar appeared inside a huge virtual call center, inside a virtual cubicle, sitting at a virtual desk, in front of a virtual computer, wearing a virtual phone headset. I thought of this place as my own private virtual hell.

I thought. You're going to turn it into a fascist corporate theme park

It is the world's first fully functional noninvasive brain-computer interface. It allows an OASIS user to see, hear, smell, taste, and feel their avatar's virtual environment, via signals transmitted directly into their cerebral cortex. The headset's sensor array also monitors and interprets its wearer's brain activity, allowing them to control their OASIS avatar just as they do their physical body—simply by thinking about it.

Out of control judicial activism threatens traditional marriage in America.

There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by the past.

The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself.

But somewhere along the way our ability to tell (and to listen to) stories was lost. As life speeded up, as the possibility of both communication and annihilation became ever more instantaneous, people came to have less tolerance for that which comes only over time. The demand for perfection and the craving for ever more control over a world that paradoxically seemed ever more out of control eventually bred impatience with story.

No government could last more than a month without having to knock on the door of the banks in order to pay its current expenses. If the banks were to refuse, the government would go bankrupt.

We cannot control atomic energy to an extent which would be of any value commercially, and I believe we are not likely ever to be able to do so.

Corporations growing like a carcinoma.

There are wolves hiding in the gray flock that is - characters who still know what freedom is. Moreover, these wolves are not only strong in themselves; there is also the danger that one fine morning they will transmit their characteristics to the masses, so that the flock turns into a pack. This is a ruler's nightmare.

When two individuals love each other, they become free from the Leviathan, they create space it cannot control. Eros shall always triumph, as the true message of the gods, over all titanic creations.

In this place a mind was at work to negate the image of a free and intact man. It intended to rely on man power in the same way that it had relied on horsepower. It wanted units to be equal and divisable, and for that purpose man had to be destroyed as the horse had already been destroyed.

Die Sklaverei lässt sich bedeutend steigern, indem man ihr den Anschein der Freiheit gewährt.

The moment we give in, no machine in the world can help us. But as long as we do not lose the feeling that calls out to every valiant man, 'You are born to rule,' we shall always know how to create the best instruments of power of our time.

Economic absurdities are produced only when power is at stake.

Every master has the servant he deserves.

Dos grandes miedos dominan a los hombres cuando el nihilismo culmina. El uno consiste en el espanto ante el vacío interior, y que le obliga a manifestarse hacia afuera a cualquier precio por medio de despliegue de poder, dominio espacial y velocidad acelerada. El otro opera de fuera hacia dentro como ataque del poderoso mundo a la vez demoniaco y automatizado.

We were all of us cogs in a great machine which sometimes rolled forward, nobody knew where, sometimes backwards, nobody knew why.

That's how you keep someone tied to you, not set them free. You say no to a man and don't give him the peace of repayment.

Mais je ne pus sourire, mes nerfs serraient fort les muscles de mon visage comme la ficelle du rôti au four. – En haut à gauche