Quotes About Interchangeable Parts

#1. Both pure and applied science have gradually pushed further and further the requirements for accuracy and precision. However, applied science, particularly in the mass production of interchangeable parts, is even more exacting than pure science in certain matters of accuracy and precision.

Walter A. Shewhart

#2. N truth, we don't know a whole lot of what Simeon North did. He did manage to match John Hall's ability to make interchangeable parts, but it's not clear how much of that came from Hall and how much was original with North.

Charles R. Morris

#3. We all think we're snowflakes, but we're Tinker Toys, held together by our interchangeable parts. (39)

Lauren Fox

#4. I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of management.

Jean Giraudoux

#5. Respect the colony as an organism rather than a mechanism with interchangeable parts.

Gunther Hauk

#6. And the words we find are always insufficient, like love, though they are often lovely and all we have.

Stephen Dunn

#7. We are not interchangeable objects, LEGO pieces that click together just because the parts fit.

Jay Crownover

#8. My stepmother sold my birth certificate and someone asked why I didn't buy it back. I don't know, really. I just couldn't bring myself to do it. It was mine. It cost me nothing and suddenly I had to buy it back.

Paul McCartney

#9. To be left alone, and face to face with my own crime, had been just retribution.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#10. Chanu spoke loudly, he weighed his words like gold and threw them about like a fool.

Monica Ali

#11. Music, I would argue, is a part of what makes us human.

David Byrne

#12. Pictures are as evocative to me as smells.

Anthony Browne

#13. We may prefer to think of ourselves as fallen angels, but in reality we are rising apes.

Desmond Morris

#14. I'd love to do an action film. I'd love to do a film based on a book series; I love to read the book and then go see the movie. I'd love to have a show on Disney; I love working for them. And I'm also working on getting some new music out of my own.

Katherine McNamara

#15. A lot of parts of L.A. are interchangeable with suburbs in Joburg. Very big, ostentatious houses with palm trees and lawns. Lawns are very important. Never underestimate lawns.

Neill Blomkamp

#16. Art is art when it is appreciated by someone.

Isao Tomita

#17. Besides, what do I know about being a wife? There are much more important qualities to have than a docile disposition.

C.J. Redwine

#18. The performance group The Ant Farm redoing JFK's assassination in Dallas was an event that struck a chord with me, especially when one of the members said they'd only intended to do it once, but the Dallas audience insisted they repeat the performance.

Laura Mullen