Machinery Quotations

To inquire into the origin of life is like seeking the origin of electrical machinery or the origin of music. Every increase in complexity of arrangement, of form, of substance, leads to new and often incalculable properties.

When people say 'let's do something about it', they mean 'let's get hold of the political machinery so that we can do something to somebody else.' And that somebody is invariably you.

When it comes to jump-starting the intricate machinery of recollection, there's nothing more effective than the scent of approaching death.

And the buying of new machinery meant not only the possibility of production, but even the new technology, 'cos as I mentioned before, we were back of seven, eight years.

Blogs are the main exception I make in my aversion to complex machinery.

Getting silver and gold out of junk machinery was quick to be learnt by others.

A person whose skin is metallic can no more have its reproduction restricted than a black-skinned person. Regarding life as a form of machinery and intelligent machines as people without our environmental limitations is essential in understanding FAP, the Final Anthropic Principle, which deals with evolution in the far future.

During practically all of my public life, I have been a sincere advocate of an agreement between the leading nations of the world to set up all the necessary international machinery that would bring about a practical abolition of war between civilized nations.

We didn't really feel poor. You don't know that as a kid, but we really didn't have any cash. When machinery broke down, we didn't have money for parts, so we did our best to fix it.

I learned about machinery, I learned how men behaved under pressure, and I learned about Americans.

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

But tending machinery was one thing; defining what we were trying to do and why we were doing it, and developing ways to measure how well the job was done - this was something else again.

But a rise in the wages of labour would not equally affect commodities produced with machinery quickly consumed, and commodities produced with machinery slowly consumed.

Our world is limited by the machinery we carry. It's very different to the 18th and 19th century Enlightenment scientists who were mostly men of God and thought it was their quest to uncover God's great plan.

We increasingly live in societies based on the vocabulary of 'choice' and a denial of reality - a denial of massive inequality, social disparities, the irresponsible concentration of power in relatively few hands, and a growing machinery of social and civil death.

The proportions, too, in which the capital that is to support labour, and the capital that is invested in tools, machinery and buildings, may be variously combined.

The anorexic is out to prove how little she needs, how little she can survive on; she is out, in a sense, to discredit her nurturers, while at the same time making a public crisis out of her need for nurture. Such vulnerability and such power: it brings the whole female machinery to a halt.

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.

The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.

The internal machinery of life, the chemistry of the parts, is something beautiful. And it turns out that all life is interconnected with all other life.

It's very common to implement mob grazing and double your production for a per-acre capitalisation investment... because it doesn't take any more corraling, no more electricity, rent, machinery or labour to double your production on an existing place.

Spermaceti oil is valued for its high resistance to heat, and thus it is used in machinery where there is excessive heat.

Hollywood usually guesses that extraterrestrials would only be interested in one of three things: (1) They want to breed with us, because their own reproductive machinery is on the blink; (2) They want Earth's resources; or (3) They want the Earth. All of it.

Years ago, technical writers documented machinery and equipment; today they're more likely to work on information for software, websites, intranet pages, and procedures and polices in business areas like knowledge management,

Idiots emit bogons, causing machinery to malfunction in their presence. System administrators absorb bogons, letting machinery work again.

I have been treated better than I should have been---not by life in general nor by the machinery of things but by women.

Machinery orders are important and the better-than-expected numbers will be yen-supportive.

Machinery makers are enjoying steady increases in their production. Japan's strong economy is boosting domestic demand.

Share prices were weaker as many investors are keenly awaiting the machinery orders (figures).

One of our philosophies is that idle plants stay run-ready, have a skeleton staff and keep the plant in the most optimal position without the machinery being run.

People will view a worse-than-expected machinery orders figure as a bond positive. That may help bonds trim some of losses.

I am convinced that, under the threat of the impoverishment of our people, the machinery of government must be simplified to the utmost.

Caterpillar, the industry's first provider of factory-integrated machine control solutions, continues to be the forerunner in providing innovative machinery and hardware to meet our customers' needs. This second generation of machine control and guidance technology products continues to build on that world-class reputation.

I feel like the entire state machinery is against me.

For most sectors, R&D (research and development) intensity is higher in the U.S. than in the EU. Most strikingly, in office machinery and computers, research intensity in the U.S. is three times greater than in the EU.

We can get fuel from fruit, from that shrub by the roadside, or from apples, weeds, saw-dust - almost anything! There is fuel in every bit of vegetable matter that can be fermented. There is enough alcohol in one year's yield of a hectare of potatoes to drive the machinery necessary to cultivate the field for a hundred years. And it remains for someone to find out how this fuel can be produced commercially - better fuel at a cheaper price than we know now.

Good government never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will of those who administer that machinery. The most important element of government, therefore, is the method of choosing leaders.

Humans have existed only for the last 0.001 percent of cosmic time. All of which says that - unless the Homo sapiens brain is the one-and-only instance of cogitating machinery - nearly all the intelligence that's out there is beyond our level. And that intelligence is more than just a little bit beyond.

He wanted to cut his time. What he got was a whole bunch more time. What kind of mental machinery does this guy have in his head?

HARLOW: "I was reading a book the other day . . . the guy said machinery is going to take the place of every profession."/ DRESSLER: "Oh, my dear, that's something you'll never have to worry about.

It certainly wasn't an intentional mistake, ... No one understood that the machinery at the post office and the way it worked might tend to get this stuff in the air.

It is necessary to establish ban on military flights over Kosovo. That is one of the ways to stop Serbian war machinery in Kosovo.

Overseas demand for autos, IT goods and construction machinery which had long supported the overall economic activity in Japan, is now set to slow down, while input cost for Japanese companies is rising.

People who set up repressive machinery always think it's going to be directed against the Bad Guys (whoever they think the Bad Guys are) and never against themselves

Really, this has been a tough season. We've had some chemistry issues. We've had to practice with machinery going on, so that we could barely hear each other. There's just been a lot of adversity, some of it self-made, but we came together.

Swami Vivekanand, during his last days, had expressed the need for a man-making machinery in India. The RSS formed by Dr Hegdewar in 1925, did the same work Vivekanand aspired for - making men,

Swami Vivekanand, during his last days, had expressed need for a man-making machinery in India. The RSS formed by Dr Hegdewar in 1925, did the same work Vivekanand aspired for - making men,

Some investors are becoming skeptical about the economic recovery. Investors are looking for positive surprises in the economic data and the machinery orders wasn't a surprise at all.

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery -always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?

I witnessed the gruesome workings of the machinery of death; gear meshed with gear, like clockwork,

That was the big lesson for all of us. Everything was going great on paper, but we all became miserable because we were so caught up in the machinery of how you make that happen, it took away the sheer joy.

I would hope that as we go through the political process, the referendum and the next set of elections in December, it will become clear how secure the political machinery in Iraq is becoming,

I worry for small local charities that don't have the large fund-raising machinery in place.

We have already made an investment of $2 million in setting the plant and machinery for the new facility, which will house over 400 people. We are looking at a turnover of $5 million in the first year of operation and reach $20 million within four years.

We needed machinery to dig out the hot spots and really raked over the debris.

We are in the process of creating the architecture of international accountability for human rights violations. You need to hold individuals responsible, but there is a big gap if you can't say the machinery of a state is responsible, too.

The decline seemed to kick in around the time of publication of data on machinery orders which is a key indicator of capital expenditure. It was well below forecast, down 12.5 percent on the month.

I believe... that security declines as security machinery expands.

My way of learning is to heave a wild and unpredictable monkey-wrench into the machinery.

We have filed a proposal for some US$3 billion worth of machinery and Japan has agreed as long as the government is willing to guarantee (the loan).

This should be welcome news for California, Texas and Illinois, which together make up fully a quarter of domestic machinery production.

The physics of our world, and the ways of putting things into space, has not changed, so the machinery looks much the same, even if the content is much, much more sophisticated.

We are expecting nothing better from the government and its allies in the second round in terms of rigging, in terms of high-handedness and in terms of the involvement of government machinery in the election process.

You get your money tied up in the orchard with the machinery and supplies, and then you lose it, ... It's tough, and there are lots of questions about how much insurance will cover.

Bonds are reacting to the drop in stocks. The machinery orders report is another plus.

Every show is a mess at its first preview. No one's had enough time to rehearse in costumes, traffic patterns backstage haven't been worked out, machinery weighing thousands of pounds is being operated for the first time. And, also, it's the first time all the material you've written is before the public.

Another contrivance for regulating the effect of machinery consists in a vane or fly, of little weight, but presenting a large surface.

Things look unclear until such blue chips companies as high-tech and heavy machinery firms announce their earnings later this week.

The sectors we had expected to expand, such as general machinery and electric machinery, did indeed get a boost from the capital spending boom.

Anything over two unlicensed vehicles, unusable machinery parts or scrap metal is considered a junkyard in an agricultural zone,

Any show that includes guns or machinery or stuff like that, you need to trust who's around you because blanks are flying.

The building was destroyed. They managed to get some stuff out, but quite a bit of machinery was lost.

As long as the outlook appears bright for continued world growth and investment spending generally, that should be supportive for Japanese machinery makers.

This business isn't as dead as everyone thinks it is. I go to seminars dealing with new machinery and how to fix new shoes that are coming out on the market.

They didn't have a lot of short third downs to make. Our linebackers and secondary are exceptional at pass defense. We were getting a little pressure up front and they were in a position where they had to pass the ball to get a first down. They had a ways to go. We're forcing them into a corner we can keep them in. And then everybody went out and made the plays. I guess all the cogs were clicking, all the machinery was working.

There was some anticipation that the number might be positive, lifting some machinery stocks, but when the actual figure came in, those shares fell.

There wasn't really that much of a benefit to doing the fall work. Not doing it will help us reduce our fuel use. And we'll also save on labor and on machinery wear and tear.

There's evidence that many soldiers will exhibit mental stress from their experience, and it's important for employers to monitor them, particularly if they're operating heavy machinery or driving.

It's the General Motors of the farm machinery business.

Dollar/yen has responded to horrific weakness in data which has continued over the last business day in Japan. Machinery orders were a bit of a horror story.

It is the supreme test of a system of government whether its machinery is adequate for repressing the selfish undertakings of cliques formed on special interests and saving the public from raids of plunderers.

It takes so little to make people happy. Just a touch, If we know how to give it, just a word fitly spoken, a slight readjustment of some bolt or pin or bearing in the delicate machinery of a soul.

They are not fulfilling their function. They are closing their eyes to the fact that there is a large quantity of heavy machinery in the region, constant violations of human rights, and that not one step toward resolving the conflict is being made.

They want to come to Brazil after tour agents. They were after material for production of matches, furniture, leather and plastic shoes, iron bars, machinery for the textile industry, electronic products, artificial sweetener, machinery for preparation and preservation of food for hotels and restaurants.

If people don't buy stuff, why would anybody invest in machinery to make stuff?

If you are not stuck with fixed machinery costs and simply hire equipment when necessary, you have far more flexibility in business decisions. You can reduce or increase production dramatically depending on prices.

If you look at the segments of the economy where we do have deflation, particularly in the goods industry -- and particularly in durable goods, such as automobiles and heavy machinery -- that's where most of the layoffs have been concentrated, ... That's where you see the connection of disinflation to overall economic growth.

If you look at these GDP figures, exports are really strong...so of course, investors are going for high-techs, autos and machinery stocks.

If you look at it from just a pure economic basis, technology is replacing all of the jobs robots can do, and machinery is replacing the jobs that humans once held. If we don't train our children to imagine, to create, they're going to be unemployable.

In the industrial machinery area I've noticed Ingersoll-Rand has really created a wonderful base and demand is breaking it out,

Investors were keenly awaiting machinery orders, due out in the afternoon. However, the downside on the main indices was limited as investor hopes for a further rise remained pretty strong. An outcome (on the data) above the market consensus could set the stage for a further boost.

In addition to the physical contact, it surprised us to find that these immune cells also have machinery to take up serotonin and to secrete it in an excitatory manner. The point behind this transmission is not entirely clear, but it appears to be an additional way of stimulating a T cell response.

Civilization seeks to suppress all those primitive instincts in man which formed the main part of the machinery of his evolution in earlier times.

Graham Machinery Group?s goal is really not to have the infrastructure to support every small little company in the world, but to have more strategic relationships of value, with responsible growth.

For now, the situation is manageable. We have all the machinery ready in case of mudslides.

Words are such gross machinery, so primitive and ambiguous.

An organised system of machines, to which motion is communicated by the transmitting mechanism from a central automation, is the most developed form of production by machinery.

Memory whispers someplace in that jumbled machinery.

I really just can't watch myself. I see all the machinery at work and it just drives me nuts.

The technical is not just the machinery. The technical is a disposition to life.