Animal Machines Quotes

#1. As much as 95% of quality related problems in the factory can be solved with seven fundamental quantitative tools.

Kaoru Ishikawa

#2. You get to give.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#3. The milking machines sounded tranquilizing, and there was the collegiality of seventy animal spirits thriving, warming the barn with cud-chewing, nose-snuffling, and sisterly mammalhood.

Edward Hoagland

#4. There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.

Baron De Montesquieu

#5. One single idea may have greater weight than all the men, animals, and machines for a century.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6. I have continued to paint; my father - who was savaged by the critics - continued to paint until practically the last week of his life.

Jamie Wyeth

#7. The bicycle is the perfect transducer to match man's metabolic energy to the impedance of locomotion. Equipped with this tool, man outstrips the efficiency of not only all machines but all other animals as well.

Ivan Illich

#8. Buddy hugged his father,and promptly, with a dreadful brightness, came over to me and held out his had.I shook it. It felt fat and moist.

Sylvia Plath

#9. I don't mean to mock the gods,
but Freyja seems to me a bitch.
- Hjalti Skjeggjason

Robert Ferguson

#10. When one stops writing one becomes oneself again, the person one usually is, in terms of occupations, thoughts, language. Thus I am now me again, I am here, I go about my ordinary business, I have nothing to do with the book, or, to be exact, I entered it, but I can no longer enter it.

Elena Ferrante

#11. Libraries should be the beating heart of the school, not mausoleums for dusty books.

Stephanie Harvey

#12. Man is a fire-stealing animal, and we can't help building machines and machine intelligences, even if, from time to time, we use them not only to outsmart ourselves but to bring us right up to the doorstep of Doom.

Richard Dooling

#13. Or did a Martian sit within each, ruling, directing, using, much as a man's brain sits and rules in his body? I began to compare the things to human machines, to ask myself for the first time in my life how an ironclad or a steam engine would seem to an intelligent lower animal.

H.G.Wells

#14. The arithmetical machine produces effects that approach nearer to thought than all the actions of animals. But it does nothing that would enable us to attribute will to it, as to the animals.

Blaise Pascal

#15. Whereas babies are essentially helpless creatures for many months, puppies come into this world as little survival machines, revealing their true animal natures almost immediately after they are born.

Anonymous

#16. A small laugh startled me and I looked over to see her actually smiling. Making her do that more often was a new goal.

Abbi Glines

#17. A machine is more blameless, more sinless even than any animal. It has no intentions whatsoever but our own.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#18. Man is a talking animal and he will always let himself be swayed by the power of the word. Machines won't change human nature.

Simone De Beauvoir

#19. There is no way that the heart-lung machine could have been devised and developed other than through studies on living creatures

Norman L Browse

#20. When I was in high school, I was a bad kid and a good student.

Halsey

#21. There are a whole bunch of roles where people say, 'Oh, you're playing yourself.' I guess it's kind of a compliment. Or people say, 'Oh, man, you just roll out of bed and do that.' The work is to make it look effortless. That's the hard part.

Matthew McConaughey

#22. If you want to be useful, you can always start now. It will be a humble prototype of your grand vision, but you'll be in the game. Start by teaching someone this week. Starting small puts 100% of your energy into solving real problems for real people.

Derek Sivers

#23. [Referring to the birds:] Nat listened to the tearing sound of splintering wood, and wondered how many million years of memory were stored in those little brains, behind the stabbing beaks, the piercing eyes, now giving them this instinct to destroy mankind with all the deft precision of machines.

Daphne Du Maurier