The Great Automatic Grammatizator Quotes

“The young man clasped his hands together tight on his lap, hugging himself with his elbows. It seemed as though suddenly he was feeling very cold.”
― Roald Dahl, The Great Automatic Grammatizator

“He was working in a mood of exultation, prowling around the room amidst this littering of paper, rubbing his hands together, talking out loud to himself; and sometimes, with a sly curl of the nose he would mutter a series of murderous imprecations in which the word “editor” seemed always to be present. On the fifteenth day of continuous work, he collected the papers into two large folders which he carried—almost at a run—to the offices of John Bohlen Inc., electrical engineers.”
― Roald Dahl, The Great Automatic Grammatizator

“He found himself, almost immediately, up against the old truth that a machine, however ingenious, is incapable of original thought. It can handle no problems except those that resolve themselves into mathematical terms—problems that contain one, and only one, correct answer.”
― Roald Dahl, The Great Automatic Grammatizator

“He probably thought it was a woman. Whenever a young man gets depressed, everybody thinks it’s a woman.”
― Roald Dahl, The Great Automatic Grammatizator

“Adolph Knipe moved his feet on the carpet, and he watched the two small white hands of his chief, the nervous fingers playing with a paper clip, unbending it, straightening out the hairpin curves. He didn’t like the man’s hands. He didn’t like his face either, with the tiny mouth and the narrow purple-coloured lips. It was unpleasant the way only the lower lip moved when he talked.”
― Roald Dahl, The Great Automatic Grammatizator