Machinery Quotes - Page 15

• We are moving rapidly into a world in which the spying machinery is built into every object we encounter.

  Howard Rheingold

  Moving, Encounters, World

  Howard Rheingold (2007). “Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution”, p.18, Basic Books

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• Meditation is first quietness. We live in a great din. It is well to see (for who sees it not will have but narrow sympathies and understand little that occurs around him) that the noise is often a noble uproar, "deep calling unto deep," the clamor of wonderful machinery, of great labors, of human struggles, of heroes' voices. But storms, though grand, must sink if the sea is to show the stars.

  James Vila Blake

  Stars, Hero, Struggle

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• It has been estimated that even in the absence of net investment, the mere substitution of modern machinery for worn-out equipment in the United States would cause an annual productivity increase of approximately 1.5 percent.

  Paul A. Baran

  Causes, United States, Investment

  Paul A. Baran (1968). “Political Econ of Growth”, p.88, NYU Press

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• Love turns all the wheels of human industry, is the motive power under the world's machinery, makes worthwhile every enterprise on the earth, is coequal with life, outlasts death, and reaches onward into heaven.

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

  Heaven, World, Earth

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• What happens is that, you know, on Mondays, at least in the Senate, you know, Monday night wed have what youd call a bed-check vote. Just to get, you know, the machinery of the Senate up and running so they can start the committee process; on Tuesday morning, things go. By Thursday, you know, jet fumes, the smell of jet fumes.

  Olympia Snowe

  Running, Monday, Morning

  "After Leaving Senate, Snowe Is Still 'Fighting For Common Ground'". Interview with David Greene, www.npr.org. May 13, 2013.

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• It is only comparatively primitive machinery that affords a stimulus, and there is already a faint period touch about Pacific 231 and Le Pas d'Acier. One feels...that Prokofieff should have written ballets about the spinning jenny and the Luddite riots; that Honegger should have been there to celebrate the opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway and the death of Huskisson with a "Symphonie Triomphale et Funèbre".

  Constant Lambert

  Fun, Should Have, Spinning

  "Music, Ho!". Book by Constant Lambert, Hogarth Press edition, "Mechanical Romanticism", pp. 209-10, 1934.

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• we should be careful not to let machinery swamp life. That we should be sure, when we are confronted with a fresh mechanical contrivance, that we are not losing more than we gain by adopting it.

  Ann Bridge

  Technology, Swamps, Gains

  Ann Bridge (2013). “Singing Waters”, p.17, A&C Black

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• Left to its own devices, the State Department machinery tends toward inertia rather than creativity; it is always on the verge of turning itself into an enormous cable machine.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Creativity, Government, Machines

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• A camel is a horse designed by a committee and a committee's a sweet running piece of machinery compared to any government.

  Gordon R. Dickson

  Running, Sweet, Horse

  Gordon R. Dickson (1978). “The Far Call”

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• Lie bills and calculations much perplexed, With steam-boats, frigates, and machinery quaint Traced over them in blue and yellow paint.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Lying, Blue, Yellow

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “The Complete Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.665, Modern Library

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• We women are callow fledglings as compared with the wise old birds who manipulate the political machinery, and we still hesitate to believe that a woman can fill certain positions in public life as competently and adequately as a man. For instance, it is certain that women do not want a woman for President. Nor would they have the slightest confidence in her ability to fulfill the functions of that office. Every woman who fails in a public position confirms this, but every woman who succeeds creates confidence.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Wise, Believe, Men

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1995). “What I Hope to Leave Behind: The Essential Essays of Eleanor Roosevelt”, Carlson Pub

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• Basically, the body does have a vast amount of inbuilt anti-ageing machinery; it's just not 100% comprehensive, so it allows a small number of different types of molecular and cellular damage to happen and accumulate.

  Aubrey de Grey

  Numbers, Body, Damage

  "We don't have to get sick as we get older". Interview with Caspar Llewellyn Smith, www.theguardian.com. July 31, 2010.

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• Blogs are the main exception I make in my aversion to complex machinery.

  Laurie R. King

  Aversion, Exception, Complexes

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• Our world is limited by the machinery we carry. Its very different to the 18th and 19th century Enlightenment scientists who were mostly men of God and thought it was their quest to uncover Gods great plan.

  Bernard Beckett

  Men, Our World, Different

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• If the veil of the world's machinery were lifted off, how much we would find is done in answer to the prayers of God's children.

  Robert E. Murray

  Prayer, Children, Done

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• I admire machinery as much is any man, and am as thankful to it as any man can be for what it does for us. But it will never be a substitute for the face of a man, with his soul in it, encouraging another man to be brave and true.

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Men, Brave

  Charles Dickens (1868). “Christmas Stories from "Household Words" and "All the Year Round"”, p.135

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• Two Chinamen visiting Europe went to the theatre for the first time. One of them occupied himself with trying to understand the theatrical machinery, which he succeeded in doing. The other, despite his ignorance of the language, sought to unravel the meaning of the play. The former is like the astronomer, the latter the philosopher.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Philosophical, Ignorance, Science

  "Counsels and Maxims". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer (Volume 2 "On Various Subjects"), 1851, as translated by R. J. Hollingdale in "Essays and Aphorisms", 1970.

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• The machine is impersonal, it takes the pride away from a piece of work, the individual merits and defects that go along with allwork that is not done by a machine--which is to say, its little bit of humanity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Work, Pride, Humanity

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• To see distinctly the machinery--the wheels and pinions--of any work of Art is, unquestionably, of itself, a pleasure, but one which we are able to enjoy only just in proportion as we do not enjoy the legitimate effect designed by the artist.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Art, Wheels, Able

  Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)”, p.2118, Delphi Classics

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• There is no room in war for delicate machinery.

  Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell

  War, Rooms, Delicate

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• I am not responsible for the successful working of the machinery of society.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Responsibility, Successful, Independence

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.83, Penguin

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• It is great to be a part of big-budget movies, but it is harder to feel like you are contributing, in the sense that it has such big machinery behind it.

  Naomie Harris

  Like You, Bigs, Harder

  "Naomie Harris Interview THE FIRST GRADER". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 11, 2011.

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• Let us see as steadily and completely as possible the realities of our age: the wasted lives, the scattered and misused resources (human and material), the steel magic of the misdirected machinery, the mad clockwork tragedy of it all.

  Clarence John Laughlin

  Reality, Mad, Magic

  Keith F. Davis, Nancy Barrett, John H. Lawrence, Clarence John Laughlin (1990). “Clarence John Laughlin: visionary photographer”, Hallmark Card Inc

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• Beware the machinery of longevity. When a man's life is over the decent thing is for him to die. The forest does not withhold itself from death. What it gives up it takes back.

  Wendell Berry

  Giving Up, Men, Doe

  Wendell Berry (2009). “The Mad Farmer Poems”, p.6, Counterpoint Press

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• Bloggers and other flavors of lone wolf are publishing heart-wrenching photo-essays from the front line of the recovery effort. Newspapers and TV networks? They're writing about the temperature of the water in some part (they don't specify which) of some damaged reactor, illustrating it with video screen grabs of machinery they don't understand enough to explain.

  Tim Bray

  Recovery, Writing, Heart

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