Status Updates From The Big Clock

I’ve seen the classic movie with Ray Milland and Charles Laughton (as well as Now Way Out with Costner and Hackman), but I will tell you this book is incredible.

And when the hours strikes, on the big clock, that is indeed the hour, the day, the correct time. When it says a man is right, he is right, and when it finds him wrong he is through, with no appeal. It is as deaf as it is blind."

"The machine cannot be challenged. It both creates and blots out, doing each with glacial impersonality. It measures people in the same way that it measures money, and the growth of trees, the life-span of mosquitos and morals, the advance of time.