“ Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough. ”
- Karel Capek- Copy
- 1.3K
“ The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them. ”
- Antoine de Saint Exupéry- Copy
- 3K
“ For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
- 714
“ If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would be perfect. The painter and sculptor would have plenty to do, and could, in complete peace and suitably honored, pursue their trade without further trouble. ”
- Wyndham Lewis- Copy
- 1.4K
“ Procrastination is a sin of lawyers, trial judges, reporters, appellate judges, in brief, everyone connected with the machinery of criminal law. ”
- Macklin Fleming- Copy
- 1.6K
“ The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture. ”
- Lewis Mumford- Copy
- 3.8K
“ If you start to victimise yourself, as an unworthy component in a beautifully constructed machine, that component is going to fail the machinery. ”
- Ben Kingsley- Copy
- 3.9K
“ A lawyer's relationship to justice and wisdom is on a par with a piano tuner's relationship to a concert. He neither composes the music, nor interprets it-he merely keeps the machinery running. ”
- Lucille Kallen- Copy
- 3.9K
“ 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- Copy
- 1.4K
“ Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
- 3.4K
“ As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man. ”
- Ernst Fischer- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor. ”
- Karl Marx- Copy
- 274
“ The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent. ”
- Edward Dahlberg- Copy
- 1.1K
“ The pencil sharpener is about as far as I have ever got in operating a complicated piece of machinery with any success. ”
- Robert Benchley- Copy
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“ Man is only man at the surface. Remove the skin, dissect, and immediately you come to machinery. ”
- Paul Valery- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do. ”
- Robert Anson Heinlein- Copy
- 3.2K
“ The sense of humor is the oil of life's engine. Without it, the machinery creaks and groans. No lot is so hard, no aspect of things is so grim, but it relaxes before a hearty laugh. ”
- George S. Merriam- Copy
- 318
“ 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- Copy
- 3.4K
“ You've got to know where the machinery is and how it works before you can throw a monkey-wrench into it. ”
- Michael H. Brown- Copy
- 3.4K
“ In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence, and famine. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
- 2.8K
“ It takes so little to make people happy. Just a touch, If we know how to give it, just a word fitly spoken, a slight readjustment of some bolt or pin or bearing in the delicate machinery of a soul. ”
- Frank Crane- Copy
- 2.7K
“ 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- Copy
- 2.8K
“ 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- Copy
- 2.5K
“ The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine. ”
- Stephen B. Leacock- Copy
- 3.9K
“ There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
- 3K
“ 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- Copy
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