By what inept logic must we bow to our creation if it be a machine,
and spurn it as "unreal" if it happens to be a painting or a poem? The
machine is just as much a creature of thought as the poem: the poem is
as much a fact of reality as the machine.
-- Lewis Mumford. Technics and Civilization (1934)
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd. page 319.