Mechanical Quotes

325 quotes by 272 authors

The life of an aviator seemed to me ideal. It involved skill. It brought adventure. It made use of the latest developments of science. Mechanical… — Charles Lindbergh
At the present time there exist problems beyond our ability to solve, not because of theoretical difficulties, but because of insufficient means of mechanical computation. — Howard Aiken
When you are practicing, do not just do that for the sake of doing. Learn to reflect while you are practising. Make your mind and… — B.K.S. Iyengar
The motion picture made in Hollywood, if it is to create art at all, must do so within such strangling limitations of subject and treatment… — Raymond Chandler
Sex for many has become a sorry business, a mechanical release involving neither discovery nor triumph, stressing human isolation more dishearte-ingly than ever before. — Germaine Greer
By putting business before every other manifestation of life, our mechanical and financial civilization has forgotten the chief business of life: namely, growth, reproduction, development.… — Lewis Mumford
The form of a poem is invisible. A poem is not an "object." This is hard to accept in a mechanical age. — Wendell Berry
Technical things are getting more mechanical. Take 'Swan Lake,' the Black Swan pas de deux. Now, my goodness, they're turning not just 32 fouettes -… — Natalia Makarova
The mechanical and social achievements of our day must not blind our eyes to the fact that, in all that relates to man, his nature… — James Loeb
True Americanism is practical idealism. Its aims, instead of being materialistic and mechanical, are idealistic to the point of being Utopian. In this way, the… — Maurice Saatchi
... teaching cannot be a process of transference of knowledge from the one teaching to the learner. This is the mechanical transference from which results… — Paulo Freire
I just write mechanical things. — Barry Zito
The physiologist who succeeds in penetrating deeper and deeper into the digestive canal becomes convinced that it consists of a number of chemical laboratories equipped… — Ivan Pavlov
In the Phaedrus, Plato argued that the new arrival of writing would revolutionize culture for the worst. He suggested that it would substitute reminiscence for… — Marshall McLuhan
On the molecular scale, you find it's reasonable to have a machine that does a million steps per second, a mechanical system that works at… — K. Eric Drexler
I wrote two plotted books, got some of the fundamentals of storytelling down, then... it's sort of like taking the training wheels off, trying to… — Jonathan Franzen
I am a mechanical techie. I can build things with my hands. — Evan Glodell
I have a penchant for fresh notebooks and mechanical pencils. It seems every time I go to the store, I buy a new notebook. I… — Richard Paul Evans
If I say [electrons] behave like particles I give the wrong impression; also if I say they behave like waves. They behave in their own… — Richard P. Feynman
The minute there's a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity. — Seth Godin

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