William S. Burroughs Quote

If all individuals were conditioned to machine efficiency in the performance of their duties there would have to be at least one person outside the machine to give the necessary orders; if the machine absorbed or eliminated all those outside the machine, the machine will slow down and stop forever.


Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-1997 (ed. Semiotext, 2001)


If all individuals were conditioned to machine efficiency in the performance of their duties there would have to be at least one person outside the...

If all individuals were conditioned to machine efficiency in the performance of their duties there would have to be at least one person outside the...

If all individuals were conditioned to machine efficiency in the performance of their duties there would have to be at least one person outside the...

If all individuals were conditioned to machine efficiency in the performance of their duties there would have to be at least one person outside the...