Stephen Cairns, jr.

“We created the Machine, to do our will, but we cannot make it do our will now. It was robbed us of the sense of space and of the sense of touch, it has blurred every human relation and narrowed down love to a carnal act, it has paralysed our bodies and our wills, and now it compels us to worship it.”
― E. M. Foster, The Machine Stops

“I want to see you not through the machine,' said Kuno. 'I want to speak to you not through the wearisome machine.”
― E.M. Forster, The Machine Stops

“They were brought to Fangorn, and their coming was like the falling of small stones that starts an avalanche in the mountains. Even as we talk here, I hear the first rumblings.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers