#mechanical

People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too. ↗

— Christopher Morley

#equipment #faster #imagine #like #mechanical

I conceived of an instrument that would create sound without using any mechanical energy, like the conductor of an orchestra. The orchestra plays mechanically, using mechanical energy; the conductor just moves his hands, and his movements have an effect on the music artistry. ↗

— Leon Theremin

#artistry #conceived #conductor #create #effect

If you must get rid of a roach, use mechanical control. ↗

— Carl Olson

#get #mechanical #must #rid #roach

The process of creation goes on all the time. When I get through, I feel I know what the character will do in every situation. But the building up of the part is not mechanical or deliberate. It grows out of the text. ↗

— Donald Pleasence

#character #creation #deliberate #every #feel

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

But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#die #life #live #mechanically #repetition

I play with feeling so I need to hear what is coming out of the amplifier to inspire me; I don't just play mechanically. I need to hear what I am doing in order to create the next note. If I don't hear it then I can't feed myself. ↗

— Michael Schenker

#amplifier #coming #create #doing #feed

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