Quotes About Mechanism

For me, it's a feel thing; it's a mechanical thing.

I get contacted daily by people in America saying is there any legal way to download 'The IT Crowd', but the whole mechanism is too rigid to allow for things like that.

Answers are what we are trying to get at; search is a process by which you may be able to get answers, but it's not the end goal. It's a mechanism.

The real mechanism for corporate governance is the active involvement of the owners.

Bitcoin's value is the same: It will remain as long as it is the most efficient mechanism for transferring ownership.

Design is how it works."[

In a simple system, if I pull a lever, I get the expected result. If I turn my wheel, the car turns. In a more complex system, I turn the wheel and there may be a very large amount of lag time.

Nobody used an industrial vortex engine to run kitchen appliances.

Det är just strukturen hos världens ekonomiska fält som utövar ett strukturellt tvång, vilket ger mekanismen ett sken av ödesbestämdhet.

When I first became really interested in building furniture, I went to Toys-R-Us, and spent $200 on Transformers toys. By taking the toys apart and studying how they moved, I was able to figure out how to hide a table leaf, what type of contraption I'd need to slide it under the table. I'm a really visual learner.

I promptly fell in love with scientific research and soon had assigned myself, as a major vocation, the task of elucidating the mechanism of action of the antidiabetic hormone.

Sundance was started as a mechanism for the discovery of new voices and new talent.

Notice of leaving the E.U. under Article 50, for which most of us voted, provides a mechanism for extending the negotiating period by agreement if this is necessary. It is not to undermine Brexit to insist it is carried out correctly.

Crisis is routinely identified as a core mechanism of fascism because it short-circuits debate and democratic deliberation. Hence all fascistic movements commit considerable energy to prolonging a heightened state of emergency.

The perspiring of drops of blood is a known, but rare medical condition called hematidrosis. It is thought to be caused by intense anxiety when our body's fight-or-flight mechanism narrows the capillaries to prepare us for actions in the face of fear. If the fear is suddenly relieved, the capillaries dilate and, in some cases, rupture, leaving blood entering the sweat glands. It might actually be a sign of a very rapid relief from anxiety.1

The avoidance of pain - physical or psychic - is a dangerous mechanism, which can cause us to lose touch not just with our painful sensations but with ourselves.

Large financial institutions in this country will always play a role that is essential to our economic growth. But they must only be permitted to grow and interconnect, throughout our economy, under careful oversight and with a mechanism for allowing those connections to be broken safely.

The entire cerebral mechanism can be reproduced mechanically. So much the better, as this will show the most obtuse of us where the error lies. But when we want to go beyond academic know-how—that sclerosis of the spirit—to fertile thought, the cerebral mechanism is no longer adequate.

The ticktock of the tiny object full of gears suffocating all existence, wringing life out of life.

There are movies whose feel-good sentiments and slick craft annoy me so deeply that I know they will become box-office successes or top prizewinners. I call this internal mechanism my Built-In Hit Detector.

For fifty years I've watched the grandfather clock in the hall, William. After it is wound I can predict to the hour when it will stop. Old people are no different. They can feel the machinery slow down and the last weights shift.

It was no accident that the beau ideal of his (John Adams') political philosophy was balance, since he projected onto the world the conflicting passions he felt inside himself and regarded government as the balancing mechanism that prevented those factions and furies from spending out of control.

But the reformers were right: the bovine digestive system is an extraordinarily efficient mechanism for converting grass, fodder, and even forage into fertilizer.15 Their shit-savings were a form of liquid capital.

The good effects that we popularly ascribe to "self-control" are, it seems, more accurately captured by situational control.24 The studies and stories just cited established this mechanism, a mechanism that will undergird every part of habit formation.