Quotes About Machinery

To me, the noise of a threshing machine is better music than a lot of music I hear nowadays. I took a man's place in the threshing crew when I was only 14 years old.

Man is a robot with defects.

For now, tribal instincts backed by institutional machinery, still prop up the old split'.

On the way from mythology to logistics thought has lost the element of self-reflection and today machinery disables men even as it nurtures them.

The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures.

There are about 100 German companies in Nigeria, and German investors have earned a lot of respect from Nigeria because of the quality of the manufactured goods they produce, especially machinery.

I don't have anything against bulldozers; I think they're great. It's a lot better than digging with a shovel.

I don't have anything against bulldozers. I think they're great. A lot easier than digging with a shovel.

You do the job you're trained to do. Pull a lever. Push a button. You don't understand any of it, and then you just die.

The physical universe and its buzzing machinery, its fantastical scenery.

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers, if any thing is thrust among them suddenly which tends to stop them or reverse their motion. A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself; stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.

I often think that the Romans were fortunate; their civilization reached as far as hot baths without touching the fatal knowledge of machinery.

The journey laid a magical finger on the genuine pulse of life and gallantly the machinery of human nerves strove to answer the bounding courses of the swift blue animal.

There's three things men always talk about - women, sports, and cars.

I mean, what Fiat had it was not very big, it was something like forty or fifty million dollars, but it's enough to get revolving credit, to get starting away again, the buying of new machinery.

Science Fiction has rivets, fantasy has trees.

See these protrusions here, here, and here. That's tech.

when God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it.

And the narrowest hinge in my hand puts to scorn all machinery, And the cow crunching with depress'd head surpasses any statue, And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels.

His comparisons between man-made machinery and the handiwork of nature produced in him a deep reverence for the latter. "Though human ingenuity may make various inventions," he wrote, "it will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple, more direct than does Nature; because in her inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous."15

Leonardo's interest in machinery was linked to his fascination with motion.

Bad information is a disease that attacks the brain. It messes with your head, making you do things that you shouldn't, causing you to make wrong decisions. Just as a potent virus co-opts your cells' machinery, bad information can co-opt your behavior. It can alter the way you interact with the world and, as a result, it can change the world.

It is only the constant exertion and working of our sensitive, intellectual, moral, and physical machinery that keep us from rusting, and so becoming useless.