Quotes About Mechanical

The classic resignation. Mechanical, intellectual acceptance of that which a genuine organism––with two billion years of the pressure to live and evolve hagriding it––could never have reconciled itself to. "I can't stand the way you androids give up," he said savagely.

Madness, he thought. The ultimate horror for our para­noid culture: vicious unseen mechanical entities that flit at the edges of our vision, that can go anywhere, that are in our very midst.

Yet, the dark fire waned: the life force oozed out of her, as he had so often witnessed before with other androids. The classic resignation. Mechanical, intellectual acceptance of that which a genuine organism - with two billion years of the pressure to live and evolve hagriding it - could never have reconciled itself to.

Right on," he said mechanically. And then it flashed on him what Donna had said—asking him to take her out. "Alll riiiight!" he said, pleased; life flowed back into him. Once again, the little dark-haired chick whom he loved so much had restored him to caring. "Which night?

A city is half beast and half machine, with arteries of fresh water and veins of foul, nerves of telephone and electrical cables, sewer lines for bowels, pipes full of pressurized steam and others carrying gas, valves and fans and filters and meters and motors and transformers and tens of thousands of interlinked computers, and though its people sleep, the city never does.

a wandering corpse, a bundle of mindless functions

I would love to have a robot at home.

The Sufis regard systems which treat everyone alike as mechanical and degenerate.

A Sufi school comes into being in order to flourish and disappear, not to leave traces in mechanical ritual, or anthropologically survivals.

I'm fascinated by steam engines and with Victorian engineering generally, and as a corollary to that, I'm fascinated by the idea of long-lived technologies.

The weak force violates parity symmetry by acting differently on left-handed and right-handed particles. It turns out that only left-handed particles experience the weak force. For example, a left-handed electron would experience the weak force, whereas one spinning to the right would not. Experiments show this clearly—it's the way the world works—but there is no intuitive, mechanical explanation for why this should be so.

the state is something purely mechanical — and there is no [spiritual] idea of a machine. Only what is an object of freedom may be called 'idea'. Therefore we must transcend the state! For every state must treat free men as cogs in a machine. And this is precisely what should not happen; hence the state must perish.

I brought the Beetle to life with a roar. Well. Not really a roar. A Volkswagen Bug doesn't roar. But it sort of growled...

Moishe was purring so loudly he sounded like a car with a nonfunctioning muffler.

I relax by taking my bicycle apart and putting it back together again.

Even the clock shows the time without knowing anything.

Communication is like the basics of mechanical engineering, the more moving parts you have the more likely it is to break down!

On the molecular scale, you find it's reasonable to have a machine that does a million steps per second, a mechanical system that works at computer speeds.

If you don't know anything about computers, just remember that they are machines that do exactly what you tell them but often surprise you in the result.

The computer, being a mechanical moron, can handle only quantifiable data.

reason, my radiator makes a lot of banging and groaning. But

An outboard racer. The drive shaft pulled up and secured.

the building seeming filled with machine sounds, as if the robots of the Apocalypse were being manufactured here.

According to the EPA, all the booming was—I quote—'only mechanical sonic devices that simulate