Machinery Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• 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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• Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Spiritual, Prayer, World

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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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• I submit that those who run the American military at the top, and those whose boots are on the ground and who run the machinery and equipment, are sending a signal: You asked us to do something. Give us some time and we will solve the problems and we will do it.

  Pete Domenici

  Running, Military, Giving

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• I had learned what wealth was, and a great deal about production and exchange for myself in the early history of South Australia - of the value of machinery, of roads and bridges, and of ports for transport and export.

  Catherine Helen Spence

  Bridges, Australia, Wealth

  Catherine Helen Spence, Susan Magarey, Maryan Beams (2005). “Ever Yours, C.H. Spence: Catherine Helen Spence's An Autobiography (1825-1910), Diary (1894) and Some Correspondence (1894-1910)”, p.49, Wakefield Press

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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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• 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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• But a rise in the wages of labour would not equally affect commodities produced with machinery quickly consumed, and commodities produced with machinery slowly consumed.

  David Ricardo

  Wages, Commodity, Consumed

  David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1852). “The Works of David Ricardo. With a notice of the life and writings of the author: by J. R. McCulloch”, p.26

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• Furniture manufacturing in plastics requires very costly machinery, which the Danish market is not big enough to justify. Or so they say. But show me a plastics manufacturer who dares to take on the experiment

  Arne Jacobsen

  Furniture, Enough, Plastic

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Nikola Tesla

  Generations, Driven, Kinetic Energy

  Nikola Tesla, David Hatcher Childress (1993). “The Fantastic Inventions of Nikola Tesla”, p.97, Adventures Unlimited Press

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• Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe. This idea is not novel... We find it in the delightful myth of Antaeus, who derives power from the earth; we find it among the subtle speculations of one of your splendid... Throughout space there is energy. Is this energy static or kinetic! If static our hopes are in vain; if kinetic - and this we know it is, for certain - then it is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature.

  Nikola Tesla

  Men, Ideas, Space

  "Experiments With Alternate Currents Of High Potential And High Frequency". Nikola Tesla's Address to the Institution of Electrical Engineers, February 1892.

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• Every Age has its own peculiar faith. Any attempt to translate into facts the mission of one Age with the machinery of another, can only end in an indefinite series of abortive efforts. Defeated by the utter want of proportion between the means and the end, such attempts might produce martyrs, but never lead to victory.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Faith, Mean, Effort

  Giuseppe Mazzini (2005). “The Duties of Man and Other Essays”, p.165, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Science, Technology, Worry

  "Waldo & Magic, Inc". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, 1950.

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• We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Kindness, Business, Thinking

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

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• It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  People, Worry, Revolution

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• I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work,' because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

  Andy Warhol

  War, Sleep, Thinking

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.109, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?

  Virginia Woolf

  Passion, Reflection, Brain

  Virginia Woolf, Nigel Nicolson, Joanne Trautmann Banks (1979). “The Letters of Virginia Woolf: 1932-1935”, Harvest Books

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• The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to imply that he is without purpose. This shows a lack of understanding of machines as well as of man.

  Arthur Young

  Men, Understanding, Purpose

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• Heredity provides for the modification of its own machinery.

  James Mark Baldwin

  Modification, Heredity

  Princeton University, James Mark Baldwin (1896). “Contributions to Psychology”

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• Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past, the woman of today arises.

  Margaret Sanger

  Past, Reality, Silence

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• If the machinery for distribution in the present economic system of the world is incapable of properly distributing the productive wealth of nations, then that system is false and must be altered.

  Gregor Strasser

  World, Wealth, Economic

  "The Mind and Face of Nazi Germany" by Nagendranath Gangulee, (p. 165), 1942.

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• God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.

  Aldous Huxley

  Civilization, Medicine, Choices

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• The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.

  Stephen Leacock

  Book, Reading, Class

  1913 Behind the Beyond,'Homer and Humbug'.

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