Machinery Quotes

The technical is not just the machinery. The technical is a disposition to life.

It is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature.

Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe.

We cannot afford to raise any institution to the rank of a fetish. To do so would be simply to become the slaves of our own machinery.

My way of learning is to heave a wild and unpredictable monkey-wrench into the machinery.

Prayer meetings are the throbbing machinery of the church.

Good cheer is a great lubricant; it oils all of life's machinery.

Idiots emit bogons, causing machinery to malfunction in their presence. System administrators absorb bogons, letting machinery work again.

How complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.

It is the darling delusion of mankind that the world is progressive in religion, toleration, freedom, as it is progressive in machinery.

Some of us, for better or worse, develop very stable, consistent, and largely predictable machineries of self. But in others, the self machinery is more flexible and more open to unexpected turns.

For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer.

ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars

I have been treated better than I should have been---not by life in general nor by the machinery of things but by women.

The machinery of filmmaking is really slow and ponderous and I don't know how you're going to make it any faster with any of the systems, whether it's Red, Sony, or whatever.

I am convinced that words are things, and we simply don't have the machinery to measure what they are. I believe that words are tangible things.

I've already established my (political)machinery. It's like a car. It's fixed already. You just have to get in and drive it.

Labour, because it chose to remain unintelligent, either became subservient, or insolently believed in damaging the capitalists' goods and machinery or even in killing the capitalists.

Memory whispers someplace in that jumbled machinery.

Heredity provides for the modification of its own machinery.

The cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths; of exquisite interrelationships; of the awesome machinery of nature.

There is no room in war for delicate machinery.

Technocracy wants to do everything by machinery. Machinery is doing just fine. If it can't kill you, it will put you out of work.

I learned about machinery, I learned how men behaved under pressure, and I learned about Americans.

Power and machinery, money and goods, are useful only as they set us free to live.