#mechanical

Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#agencies #appetite #both #century #congenial

It's very easy to make insects move. Because they do move mechanically without the rippling of flesh as you mentioned. They move more like real tinker toys and you can make models of them quite easily. ↗

— Michael O'Donoghue

#easily #easy #flesh #insects #like

A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn. ↗

— C. Northcote Parkinson

#committee #committees #dies #flowers #grows

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 with various mechanical devices. ↗

— Ivan Pavlov

#canal #chemical #consists #convinced #deeper

In the past, I have not been able to hear myself. 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. ↗

— Michael Schenker

#amplifier #been #coming #feeling #hear

Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#internal #language #mechanical #outcome #thought

My grandfather on my mother's side was a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; my other grandfather was a lawyer, and one time Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives. ↗

— Kenneth G. Wilson

#grandfather #house #institute #lawyer #massachusetts

I think I've always been afraid of painting, really. Right from the beginning. All my paintings are about painting without a painter. Like a kind of mechanical form of painting. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#afraid #always #been #beginning #form

But I don't actually adopt the point of view that our subjective impression of free will, which is a kind of indeterminacy behavior, comes from quantum mechanical indeterminacy. ↗

— Murray Gell-Mann

#adopt #behavior #comes #free #free will

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