Quotes About Mechanism

Você olha um relógio. Ele funciona, mostra as horas. Você tenta compreender como ele funciona e o desmonta. Ele não anda mais. E no entanto essa é a única maneira de compreender...

shoelace caught in an escalator.

in lexicography, as in other arts, naked science is too delicate for the purposes of life. The value of a work must be estimated by its use; it is not enough that a dictionary delights the critick, unless, at the same time, it instructs the learner; as it is to little purpose that an engine amuses the philosopher by the subtilty of its mechanism, if it requires so much knowledge in its application as to be of no advantage to the common workman.

That's so often what it is with machinery: be somewhat in doubt and it carries the decision.

And what of ourselves? Are we really completely outside this mechanism? The people who come after us, won't they find aspects of sacrificial thinking even in the way we use anti-sacrificial theory?

It's supposed to be automatic, but actually you have to push this button.

Many Nobel Prizes are awaiting good research to understand and explain the many mysteries of our bodies, such as the basic mechanism of memory or imagination.

We must look at the price system as . . . a mechanism for communicating information if we want to understand its real function," Hayek

The psychologist, in his most remote and technical occupation with mechanism, is contributing his bit to that ordered knowledge which alone enables mankind to secure a larger and to direct a more equal flow of values in life.

People who do not want to correct the corrupt system will put the blame squarely on machine and even protest to remove its usage, but protect cleverly the top men who make the mechanism defunct.

I've always had a quirky way of looking at things. It's my coping mechanism.

Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.

The right numerical balance is not just random number, it is an inherent checking mechanism in our parliamentary democracy against any ruling party that chooses to put its political interests first.

The slavery of barbarians (i.e. our own slavery). The division of labour is the principle of barbarism. Dominance of mechanism. In an organism, the parts cannot be separated. The individualism of modernity and its opposite in antiquity. The wholly isolated individual of today is too weak and joins groups of slaves?of e.g. an academic discipline, a concept, a vice.

Is there a mechanism of death, that so mutilates existence no one, gets over it not even the dead?

The theory of mechanism design can be thought of as the 'engineering' side of economic theory.

When I was thirteen years old, I didn't exactly discover epic fantasy on my own. I acquired it as a social defence mechanism.

Morality is like a field of flowers beneath which the corpses are piled in a thousand layers. It is an evolved mechanism whereby the human organism proceeds through life sustained on every side by bonds of mutual interest.

Order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of an animal, or a machine, can work only if it is in physical order.

Furthermore, order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of an animal, or a machine, can work only if it is in physical order.

the more profound your understanding of the human mechanism is, the more magical your life will be.

Karma is not a doctrine. You do not get any brownie points for subscribing to it. You do not get any negative marks for disbelieving it. Karma is not a creed, a scripture, an ideology, a philosophy, or a theory. It is simply the way things are. It is an existential mechanism. Like the sun, it operates whether you acknowledge it or not, whether you pay obeisance to it or ignore it. It is not looking for a fan club.

Technology has been defined, perhaps a little ungenerously, as "a long Greek name for a bag of tools".

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly. He is like a watch of which the most that can be said is that its cosmetic effect is good.