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| 0 = <div style="text-align: center;">'''"A petrol engine is sheer magic," he said to me once. "Just imagine being able to take a thousand different bits of metal... and if you fit them all together in a certain way... and then if you feed them a little oil and petrol... and if you press a little switch... suddenly those bits of metal will all come to life... and they will purr and hum and roar... they will make the wheels of a motor-car go whizzing round at fantastic speeds..."'''</div> <div style="text-align: right;">— Roald Dahl, ''Danny, The Champion of the World''</div> | | 0 = <div style="text-align: center;">'''"A petrol engine is sheer magic," he said to me once. "Just imagine being able to take a thousand different bits of metal... and if you fit them all together in a certain way... and then if you feed them a little oil and petrol... and if you press a little switch... suddenly those bits of metal will all come to life... and they will purr and hum and roar... they will make the wheels of a motor-car go whizzing round at fantastic speeds..."'''</div> <div style="text-align: right;">— Roald Dahl, ''Danny, The Champion of the World''</div> | ||
| 1 = <div style="text-align: center;">'''Won't that be grand? Computers and the programs will start thinking and the people will stop.'''</div> <div style="text-align: right;">— Dr. Gibbs, ''Tron''</div> | | 1 = <div style="text-align: center;">'''Won't that be grand? Computers and the programs will start thinking and the people will stop.'''</div> <div style="text-align: right;">— Dr. Gibbs, ''Tron''</div> | ||
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| 3 = <div style="text-align: center;">'''Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.'''</div> <div style="text-align: right;">— Ambrose Bierce, ''The Devil's Dictionary''</div> | | 3 = <div style="text-align: center;">'''Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.'''</div> <div style="text-align: right;">— Ambrose Bierce, ''The Devil's Dictionary''</div> | ||
| 4 = <div style="text-align: center;">'''Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.'''</div> <div style="text-align: right;">— Frank Herbert, ''Dune''</div> | | 4 = <div style="text-align: center;">'''Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.'''</div> <div style="text-align: right;">— Frank Herbert, ''Dune''</div> | ||
| 5 = <div style="text-align: center;">'''And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.'''</div> <div style="text-align: right;">— William Gibson, ''Count Zero'' | |||
| #default = <div style="text-align: center;">'''...Disrupting the status quo! Because the status is not... quo. The world is a mess, and I just... need to rule it.'''</div> <div style="text-align: right;">— ''Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog''</div> | | #default = <div style="text-align: center;">'''...Disrupting the status quo! Because the status is not... quo. The world is a mess, and I just... need to rule it.'''</div> <div style="text-align: right;">— ''Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog''</div> | ||
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And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human. — William Gibson, Count Zero
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