"High order machinists."
"Your stories, my cogs. Your paths, my circuits."
"Switches, not cogs. Cogs is out-dated thinking. Makes us all think we're still in the Industrial Age."
"Just cogs in the machine."
"Information machines don't have cogs. Switches, relays, circuits, up shift, down shift, current."
"Crude metaphors for the reality of the machine being built."