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

  Source: The Conquest of Happiness (1930)

  Bertrand Russell
  English philosopher and mathematician 1872-1970
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. ingredients
2. spontaneity
3. happiness
4. variety
5. human

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

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