Quotes of Hydraulic - somelinesforyou

“ It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business. ”

- Theodore Parker

“ A self-balancing, 28-jointed adaptor-based biped; an electro-chemical reduction plant, integral with segregated stowages of special energy extracts in storage batteries, for subsequent actuation of thousands of hydraulic and pneumatic pumps, with motors attached; 62,000 miles of capillaries… ”

- R. Buckminster Fuller

“ Because we do not understand the brain very well we are constantly tempted to use the latest technology as a model for trying to understand it. In my childhood we were always assured that the brain was a telephone switchboard. I was amused to see that Sherrington, the great British neuroscientist, thought that the brain worked like a telegraph system… ”

- John R. Searle
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