automatic quotes

My uncle was famous for his balanced point of view. At the time of which I am writing (when he was nearly seventy) it had become so balanced, that the act of balancing seemed rather automatic.One had only to offer him an opinion for him to balance it with a counter- opinion of exactly the same weight, as a grocer puts a pound weight against a pound of sugar.

- Sir Stephen Harold Spender
World withinWorld, p.77.

The automatic machine, whatever we thinkof any feelings it may or may not have, is the precise economic equivalent of the slave.

- Norbert Wiener
  The Human Use of Human Beings.