Machine Quotes

What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment

The successful construction of all machinery depends on the perfection of the tools employed; and whoever is a master in the arts of tool-making possesses the key to the construction of all machines… The contrivance and construction of tools must therefore ever stand at the head of the industrial arts.

The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures.

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

A tool is usually more simple than a machine; it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is frequently moved by animal or steam power.

Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.

You are always in the process of creating. Every moment, every minute, every day. You are a big creation machine and you are turning out a new manifestation literally as fast as you can think.

Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

The dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all skyhigh again.

The whole of the developments and operations of analysis are now capable of being executed by machinery … As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will necessarily guide the future course of science.