#machinery

They simply don't know that much about what they're doing. There isn't enough control. There isn't enough capability in ordinary people to tinker with such a complicated piece of machinery. ↗

— David R. Brower

#capability #complicated #control #doing #enough

The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine. ↗

— Stephen Leacock

#class #classics #literature #machinery #medicine

Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery. ↗

— Horace Mann

#conditions #devices #education #equalizer #great

Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers. ↗

— Karl Marx

#greatly #idlers #increased #machinery #number

The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together. ↗

— Karl Marx

#application #competition #division #does #extend

The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and the railroad. ↗

— John Moody

#inventions #know #largely #machinery #mechanical

When a pianist sits down and does a virtuoso performance he is in a technical sense transmitting more information to a machine than any other human activity involving machinery allows. ↗

— Robert Moog

#allows #any #does #down #human

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. ↗

— Manny Pacquiao

#car #drive #established #fixed #get

Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich. ↗

— C. Northcote Parkinson

#machinery #make #people #poor #rich

I think there are a lot of technocrats in the business who would much rather work with just wheels and gears and machinery. Those things interest them more than humanity and I wish them the best of luck. ↗

— Ron Perlman

#business #gears #humanity #i #i think