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.

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

How complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.

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.

ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars

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

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.

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.

There is no room in war for delicate machinery.

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.

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

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.

Heredity provides for the modification of its own machinery.

Memory whispers someplace in that jumbled machinery.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Words are such gross machinery, so primitive and ambiguous.

Machinery is the subconscious mind of the world.

Don't throw a monkey-wrench into the machinery.

Law is the great civilizing machinery. It liberates the desire to build and subdues the desire to destroy.

Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.

Prayer is one of the necessary wheels of the machinery of providence.

I really just can't watch myself. I see all the machinery at work and it just drives me nuts.

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.

I would as soon pray to God with machinery as to sing to God with machinery.

All this machinery making modern music can still be open-hearted. Not so boldly charted, it's really just a question of your honesty.

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

Their imaginations were flywheels on the ramshackle machinery of the awful truth.

AI is not just heading for our industry, it will radically change the machinery we use in marketing.

I'm not human. I'm a piece of machinery. I don't need to feel a thing. Just forge on ahead.

The planetary machinery tends to be jumpy, this is to respond disproportionately to disruptions that come with the manmade greenhouse effect.

For I thought Epicurus and Lucretius By Nature meant the Whole Goddam Machinery.

Machinery makes men like itself.

Mine was the role of the oilcan in making the machinery clunk around.