#mechanical

If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical. ↗

— Herbert Read

#corporate #dull #his #individual #life

Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#genius #mechanical #organic #reason #spirit

I don't want anything to do with anything mechanical between me and the paper, including a typewriter, and I don't even want a fountain pen between me and the paper. ↗

— Shelby Foote

#between #even #fountain #fountain pen #i

The fewer moving parts, the better." "Exactly. No truer words were ever spoken in the context of engineering. ↗

— Christian Cantrell

#funny #humor #mechanical #funny

The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam, whether it takes ultimate shape in a law of physics or a law of the land, a poem or a policy, a sonata or a mechanical computer. ↗

— Alfred Whitney Griswold

#computer #divine #finger #god #land

It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#any #being #day #human #human being

It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other. ↗

— Oliver Evans

#any #communication #each #frequently #happens

I always try to keep that feeling of being on the edge. I'm afraid of knowing too well and seeming mechanical. ↗

— Catherine Deneuve

#always #being #edge #feeling #i

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 write a book that's fun in the same way without relying on quite such mechanical or external beats. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#book #books #down #external #fun

In the early 1930s, flying from England to Australia was the longest flight in the world. It was considered extremely dangerous and hazardous, pushing pilots to the limits of mechanical skills and human endurance. Aviation was young. ↗

— Mary Garden

#aviation #considered #dangerous #early #endurance