Quotes About Machinery

The implication of these findings is clear. In work (and especially knowledge work), to increase the time you spend in a state of depth is to leverage the complex machinery of the human brain in a way that for several different neurological reasons maximizes the meaning and satisfaction you'll associate with your working life.

One's mind is such an old rubbish heap. All sorts of little bits of machinery start up.

The word "robot" is from a Czech word meaning "compulsory labor.

I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.

The internal machinery of life, the chemistry of the parts, is something beautiful. And it turns out that all life is interconnected with all other life.

Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.

War has become an affair of machines...and soldiers are little more than clever mechanics.

This is a time for action — not for war, but for mobilization of every bit of peace machinery.

And it occurred to me that it had been, all along, about copies, nothing else. All of it, this entire flaming universe was about copying itself before it died, that's all it was. And we were there in the middle of it, as blind to the machinery inside of us as we were deaf to the machinery of galaxies swirling in circles above us.

A college boy from Massachusetts named Eli Whitney came south... Eli liked machines, and he liked solving problems.

But worry is rust upon the blade. It is not movement that destroys the machinery, but friction.

The opposite of manliness isn't cowardice; it's technology.

Light control works; close control leads to overreaction, sometimes causing the machinery to break into pieces. In a famous paper "On Governors," published in 1867, Maxwell modeled the behavior and showed mathematically that tightly controlling the speed of engines leads to instability.

As equipment and machinery have become more sophisticated, the knowledge and skill required to operate them has risen accordingly.

Medicine, psychology, criminology, sociology. Which treat bodies as machinery (passim Descartes, the "father" of our Western subject). Developing alongside the dirty sciences. Industrialization, Taylorization, automation.

The intelligence bloom that gnaws at Jupiter's moons with claws of molecular machinery won't stop until it runs out of dumb matter to convert into computronium. By the time it does, it will have as much brainpower as you'd get if you placed a planet with a population of six billion future-shocked primates in orbit around every star in the Milky Way galaxy.

Bogons?" "Hypothetical particles of cluelessness. Idiots emit bogons, causing machinery to malfunction in their presence. System administrators absorb bogons, letting the machinery work again. Hacker folklore

Bogons?" "Hypothetical particles of cluelessness. Idiots emit bogons, causing machinery to malfunction in their presence. System administrators absorb bogons, letting the machinery work again.

Drones were such a guy thing, she thought. It was downright chromosomal.

I respect motorcycles so much.

Simple machines can be efficient, but complex adaptive machinery cannot be.

For all their worshipful attention to Americans and American machinery, the French didn't like them much.

The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.

Men have become the tools of their tools.