Machinery Quotes

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

  Nikola Tesla

  Men, Succeed, Kinetic Energy

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Nikola Tesla Treasury”, p.172, Simon and Schuster

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• One day man will connect his
  apparatus to the very wheel work of
  the universe. The very forces that
  motivate the planets in their orbits
  and cause them to rotate will rotate
  his own machinery.

  Nikola Tesla

  Men, One Day, Orbit

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• There's nothing more arrogant or conceited than youth, and there's nothing other than machinery that can replace youth.

  Elliott Gould

  Conceited, Arrogant, Youth

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• 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.

  H. G. Wells

  Engineering, Bridges, Iron

  H. G. Wells (2016). “A Modern Utopia”, p.79, H. G. Wells

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• I knew quite well, when I gave the names of our agents in the Soviet Union, that I was exposing them to the full machinery of counterespionage and the law, and then prosecution and capital punishment.

  Aldrich Ames

  Law, Punishment, Names

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• More than machinery, we need humanity.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Kindness, Humanity, Needs

  "Fictional character: Hynkel (Dictator of Tomania / A Jewish Barber)". "The Great Dictator", www.imdb.com. October 15, 1940.

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• Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.

  Karl Marx

  Numbers, Doubt, Idlers

  Karl Marx, Samuel Moore, Edward Aveling, Friedrich Engels (2011). “Capital, Volume I: A Critique of Political Economy”, p.405, Courier Corporation

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  Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.

  Horace Mann

  Education, Men, Balance

  Horace Mann (1872). “Annual Reports on Education”, p.669

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• Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough.

  Karel Capek

  Men, Machines, Enough

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• Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology.

  Emily Greene Balch

  Technology, Age, Industrialization

  Emily Greene Balch (1972). “Beyond Nationalism: The Social Thought of Emily Greene Balch”, New York : Twayne Publishers

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• The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.

  Karl Marx

  Division Of Labor, Competition, Together

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1973). “Karl Marx on Society and Social Change: With Selections by Friedrich Engels”, p.97, University of Chicago Press

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

  Leon Kass

  Disposition

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

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Producers, Creator

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.22, Lulu.com

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

  Charles Babbage

  Time, Technology, People

  Charles Babbage (1841). “On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures”, p.8

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

  Herman Wouk

  Men, Pressure, Under Pressure

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• Little girls and boys, barefooted, walked up and down between the endless rows of spindles, reaching thin little hands into the machinery to repair snapped threads

  Mother Jones

  Girl, Boys, Hands

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• To be sure, no piece of social machinery, however well constructed, can be effective unless there is back of it a will and a determination to make it work.

  Cordell Hull

  Determination, Pieces, Social

  Cordell Hull's Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1945.

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• We are too busy to pray, and so we are too busy to have power. We have a great deal of activity, but we accomplish little; many services but few conversions; much machinery but few results.

  R. A. Torrey

  Christian, Prayer, Littles

  R. A. Torrey (2000). “How to Obtain Fullness of Power”, p.58, Sword of the Lord Publishers

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• When a pianist sits down and does a virtuoso performance he is in a technical sense transmitting more information to a machine than any other human activity involving machinery allows.

  Robert Moog

  Doe, Machines, Down And

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• An espionage organization is a collector: it collects raw information. That gets processed by a machinery that is supposed to resolve its reliability, and to present a finished product.

  Aldrich Ames

  Organization, Reliability, Information

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• I defied the machinery to make me its slave. Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my thoughts if I would let them fly high enough.

  Lucy Larcom

  Slave, Enough, Incessant

  Lucy Larcom (1961). “A New England girlhood”

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• Each one of these treaties is a step for the maintenance of peace, an additional guarantee against war. It is through such machinery that the disputes between nations will be settled and war prevented.

  Frank B. Kellogg

  War, Maintenance, Guarantees

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• I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly.

  Eric Temple Bell

  Math, Understanding, Machines

  Eric Temple Bell (1988). “Mathematics, queen and servant of science”, Tempus Books

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• Reason and Ignorance, the opposites of each other, influence the great bulk of mankind. If either of these can be rendered sufficiently extensive in a country, the machinery of Government goes easily on. Reason obeys itself; and Ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.

  Thomas Paine

  Country, Ignorance, Government

  Thomas Paine (1791). “Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution”, p.161

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• In a theater, the part is mine and I can control it as I want to. In the movies, I don't have direct contact, and I am fighting technical machinery

  Max von Sydow

  Movie, Fighting, Want

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