god in the machine

Example Sentences

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We’ve been the god in the machine all along.

From New York Times • Nov. 3, 2021

And yet we continue to dream that some deus in machina, a god in the machine, could appear as if by magic to save us from ourselves.

From Salon • Jul. 27, 2021

Myth, if any, had to be subject to rigorous updates, and there was obviously no god in the machine.

From The Guardian • Aug. 5, 2019

For the first time she could see the god in the machine, the superintendent of Peter Rolls's vast store, a kind of prime minister with more power than the king.

From Winnie Childs The Shop Girl by Williamson, C. N. (Charles Norris)

I shall set down the words used by this amazing god in the machine, this prince among all princely bolts from the blue.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, February 26, 1919 by Various