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 | "A great factory with the machinery all working and revolving with
absolute and rhythmic regularity and with the men all driven by one
impulse, and moving in unison as though a constituent part of the mighty
machine, is one of the most inspiring examples of directed force that the
world knows. I have rarely seen the face of a mechanic in the action of
creation which was not fine, never one which was not earnest and
impressive." | |
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Thomas Nelson Page
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| "Automatic simply means that you can"t repair it yourself." | |
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Frank Capra
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| "Big machines are the awe-inspiring cathedrals of the 20th
century." | |
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Daniel Kleppner
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| "But lo! men have become the tools of their tools." | |
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Henry David Thoreau
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| "It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful
they are." | |
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Clive James
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| "It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have
lightened the day"s toil of any human being." | |
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John Stuart Mill
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| "Mine was the role of the oilcan in making the machinery clunk
around." | |
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Hugh Casson
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| "Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it"s
supposed to do." | |
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Robert Anson Heinlein
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| "Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious
of men who try to." | |
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Howard Mumford Jones
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| "The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines
what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men." | |
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Henry Havelock Ellis
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| "The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature
but plunges him more deeply into them." | |
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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| "The peculiar malaise of our day is air-conditioned unhappiness, the
staleness and stuffiness of machine-made routine." | |
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Eugene B. Borowitz
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| "The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the
grease." | |
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Josh Billings
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| "Watson"s Law: The reliability of machinery is inversely proportional
to the number and significance of any persons watching it." | |
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