The most technologically efficient machine that man has…

The guitar is a much more efficient machine than a computer. More responsive.

— Colin Greenwood

Opus Dei is an efficient machine run to achieve world power.

— Penny Lernoux

The book is second only to the wheel as the best piece of technology human beings have ever invented. A book symbolises the whole…

— Philip Pullman

The bicycle is the most efficient machine ever created. Converting calories into gas, a bicycle gets the equivalent of three thousand miles per gallon.

— Bill Strickland

Every thing, even the so-called timesaving device and energy-efficient machine, comes these days with an elaborate set of instructions for its care and feeding.…

— Ellen Goodman

“Pessoa invented The Book of Disquiet, which never existed, strictly speaking, and can never exist. What we have here isn’t a book but its…

— Fernando Pessoa

Man was very fortunate to have invented the book. Without it, the past would completely vanish, and we would be left with nothing, we…

— James Salter

To write? Because all this is going to vanish. The only thing left will be the prose and poems, the books, what is written…

— James Salter

“Solitude is the machine through which time can be converted into products.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“It would be hard to believe that a man had invented walls when most of them couldn’t even be bothered to close the bathroom…

— Jenny Lawson

“(God) being the old man invented in order to, and with whom to, hold long conversations.”

— Milan Kundera

The Gospel is like water; no man invented it, yet no man can live without it.

— Reinhard Bonnke

If in 100 years I am only known as the man who invented Sherlock Holmes then I will have considered my life a failure.

— Anonymous

“For the good that I would,’” he quoted, “‘I do not; and the evil that I would not, that I do.’” “Who said that?”…

— Aldous Huxley

“He was a wise man who invented God.”

— Plato