Quotes of Gadget - somelinesforyou

“ No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him; there is always work And tools to work withal, for those who will. ”

- James Russell Lowell

“ I'm an engineer. I see myself as a toolmaker and the musicians are my customers,... They use my tools. ”

- Robert Moog

“ Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe. ”

- Alfred North Whitehead

“ Men have become the tools of their tools. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ Do not wait; the time will never be "just right." Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along. ”

- Napoleon Hill

“ No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris … no known motor can run at the requisite speed for four days without stopping. ”

- Orville Wright

“ We are but as the instrument of Heaven. Our work is not design, but destiny. ”

- Owen Meredith

“ The universe is a machine for making gods. ”

- Henri Bergson

“ Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery. ”

- Frank Herbert

“ I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine. ”

- Aneurin Bevan

“ A woman doing comedy doesn't offend me, but sets me back a bit. I, as a viewer, have trouble with it. I think of her as a producing machine that brings babies in the world. ”

- Jerry Lewis

“ One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. ”

- Elbert Hubbard

“ The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools. ”

- Confucius

“ A house is a machine for living in. ”

- Le Corbusier

“ My advice is to look out for engineers. They begin with sewing machines and end up with nuclear bombs. ”

- Marcel Pagnol

“ We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch. ”

- John F. Kennedy

“ A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind. ”

- Henry Ward Beecher

“ Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ The tongue is the only instrument that gets sharper with use. ”

- Washington Irving

“ How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words! ”

- Samuel Adams

“ Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom. ”

- Jimmy Carter

“ Have thy tools ready; God will find thee work. ”

- Charles Kingsley

“ Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments. ”

- Henri Louis Bergson

“ Man is a tool-using Animal. Nowhere do you find him without tools; without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ Place yourself as an instrument in the hands of God, who does his own work in his own way. ”

- Swami Ramdas

“ Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible. ”

- Lord Kelvin

“ Any teacher that can be replaced by a machine should be! ”

- Arthur C. Clarke

“ I xeroxed a mirror. Now I have an extra xerox machine. ”

- Steven Wright

“ Technology and the machine resurrected San Francisco while Pompeii still slept in her ashes. ”

- Silas Bent

“ What do such machines really do? They increase the number of things we can do without thinking. Things we do without thinking — there's the real danger. ”

- Frank Herbert
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