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Quotes About Mechanics

A teddy bear does not depend upon mechanics to give him the semblance of life. He is loved - and therefore he lives.
~ Pam Brown
Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully as I can.
~ Paul Auster
If you shoot with mechanics where you've got your knees bending in all the way, you're not using your hips properly, you get all of this tendinitis and knee pain.
~ Kyle Korver
When I was 7 or 8, I became fascinated with hot rods.
~ Paul Allen
This is a whole new world to explore as a developer to go in and learn these new gameplay mechanics, to learn what it's like to actually control a character from a top-down, 'God's eye' view, and to figure out how the game camera can be controlled by the player's head.
~ Brendan Iribe
A moving body whose motion was not retarded by any resisting force would continue to move to all eternity.
~ Hermann von Helmholtz
'Guild Wars 2' is a wider world in that we have a lot of different mechanics available for storytelling. We have our personal story, the story of you, which is tailored for your character. You answer some basic questions; you make some decisions early on, and that follows through.
~ Jeff Grubb
While classical mechanics correctly predicts the behavior of large objects such as tennis balls, to predict the behavior of small objects such as electrons, we must use quantum mechanics.
~ Ivar Giaever
It is not enough to tackle the mechanics of terror organizations. We must also tackle the situations that create terrorists. We desperately need to address the frustration, the loss and the despair that drive some to these actions.
~ Hussein of Jordan
Quantum mechanics completely overturned the classical worldview.
~ Robert Oerter
And joining the ridge-backs were the raptors, predators whose body mechanics introduced a whole new dimension to the drama of attack and defense.
~ Robert T. Bakker
C'est une question de tuyauterie, ni plus ni moins.
~ Robin Hobb
Reality is a cruel and unintuitive place with frustrating gameplay mechanics. (Press X to thanklessly toil your life away)
~ Yahtzee Croshaw
The inner attitude of the heart is far more crucial than the mechanics for coming into the reality of the spiritual life.
~ Richard J. Foster
Quantum mechanics provides us with an approximate, plausible, conjectural explanation of what actually is, or was, or may be taking place inside a cyclotron during a dark night in February.
~ Edward Abbey
The vice minister sets down The Principles of Mechanics and pushes it away, then glances at his palms as though it has made them dirty. He says, "The only place your brother is going, little girl, is into the mines. As soon as he turns fifteen. Same as every other boy in this house.
~ Anthony Doerr
Hertz's theories are interesting but what he loves most is building things, working with his hands, connecting his fingers to the engine of his mind.
~ Anthony Doerr
Forget all the twiddly bits, Mr Bond. These superchargers! All they do is suck, squeeze, bang and blow. Who
~ Anthony Horowitz
In Malaysia where the front end pushes so much, extra engine braking is really going to help you.
~ Sete Gibernau
I'm starting to feel like I can actually figure out how stuff works. I can actually pick stuff apart and have a chance of fixing it.
~ Simone Giertz
quantum mechanics, general relativity, and the Standard Model of particle physics.
~ Frank J. Tipler
Windmills, which are used in the great plains of Holland and North Germany to supply the want of falling water, afford another instance of the action of velocity. The sails are driven by air in motion - by wind.
~ Hermann von Helmholtz
My inners are not organs. They're actually mechanics, so I have a hole in my back, wind me up like the movie 'Hugo,' and then just say, 'Act,' you know?
~ Gillian Jacobs
One thing that sticks in my mind is when I was a kid, and I had just learned to read, I came across one of my older sister's textbooks that explained compound pulley. I thought that was really neat, and I still do.
~ Jim Peebles