I never liked the idea of doing what a machine says. I hate having to salute something built in a factory.
Interpretation
The quote expresses a disdain for conforming to mechanistic or automated systems.
Philip K. Dick reflects on the tension between human creativity and the constraints imposed by machines and technology. He emphasizes a desire for individuality and authenticity, rejecting the notion of simply following orders or adhering to artificial constructs that lack the richness of human experience and decision-making.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech about the importance of creativity in the workplace.
We are living in a computer-programmed reality, and the only clue we have to it is when some variable is changed, and some alteration in reality occurs. We have the overwhelming impression that we were reliving the present - deja vu.
Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.
On some other world, possibly it is different. Better. There are clear good and evil alternatives. Not these obscure admixtures, these blends, with no proper tool by which to untangle the components.
"Do you have information that there's an android in the cast? I'd be glad to help you, and if I were an android would I be glad to help you?" "An android," he said, "doesn't care what happens to another android. That's one of the indications we look for." "Then," Miss Luft said, "you must be an android."
The universe is information and we are stationary in it, not three dimensional and not in space or time.
A man is an angel that has gone deranged.
I really don't believe in magic.
People? People are chaotic quiddities living in one cave each. They pass the hours in amorous grudge and playback and thought experiment. At the campfire they put the usual fraction on exhibit, and listen to their own silent gibber about how they're feeling and how they're going down. We've been there. Death helps. Death gives us something to do. Because it's a fulltime job looking the other way.
You've confused a war on your religion with not always getting everything you want.
The moment that you feel that just possibly you are walking down the street naked...that's the moment you may be starting to get it right.
Time perfects all living beings as well as kills them; it alone is awake when all others are asleep. Time is insurmountable.
Consider your possessions loaned to you by God.
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