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Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful, and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous, and loathed because they impose slavery.
When a machine can do something better and faster than a person can, I am happy to let the machine do it.
There is no perfectly shaped part of the motorcycle and never will be, but when you come as close as these instruments take you, remarkable things happen, and you go flying across the countryside under a power that would be called magic if it were not so completely rational in every way.
What man-made machine will ever achieve the complete perfection of even the goose's wing?
Soon shall thy arm, UNCONQUER'D STEAM! afar
Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car;
Or on wide-waving wings expanded bear
The flying-chariot through the fields of air.
The computer is the most extraordinary of man's technological clothing; it's an extension of our central nervous system. Beside it, the wheel is a mere hula-hoop.
There are many machines throughout history that were built to do something better than a human can.
Machinery is the subconscious mind of the world.
[A] pile driver was improvised by mounting a large steam donkey engine, a steam hammer, and a timber tower on a barge.
I have problems with machines which aren't gestural.
I admire machinery as much is any man, and am as thankful to it as any man can be for what it does for us. But it will never be a substitute for the face of a man, with his soul in it, encouraging another man to be brave and true.
When man resolved to imitate walking, he invented the wheel, which does not look like a leg. In doing this, he was practicing surrealism without knowing it.
What the gears cannot do the computer might. The computer is the Proteus of machines. Its essence is its universality, its power to simulate
God who gave Animals self motion beyond our understanding is without doubt able to implant other principles of motion in bodies which we may understand as little. Some would readily grant this may be a Spiritual one; yet a mechanical one might be showne. ...
We're beginning the age in which machines attached to our bodies will make us stronger and more efficient,
When the auto arrives it's hard to believe there's a functional vehicle underneath all the mud and moss and sprays of gravel, which stick to the sides like barnacles on a ship.
I think best on two wheels
Propulsion, spewing out smoke, and three-wheeler taxis,
Man is the only 150 pound nonlinear servomechanism that can be wholly reproduced by unskilled labor.
I want to be a machine.
In a sense the car has become a prosthetic, and though prosthetics are usually for injured or missing limbs, the auto-prosthetic is for a conceptually impaired body or a body impaired by the creation of a world that is no longer human in scale.
Magic [has] been replaced by machinery.
Machines are braver than art.
The car resembles a dragon fly or any other jumping animal that moves shorter distances in straight lines and then changes its direction at different points.
Slow motion, but the right direction.
For a machine to run smoothly and predictably,
its parts must be standard and hence replaceable,
features which contribute, respectively,
to modern depersonalization and anxiety.
I've owned mopeds in the past.
Man.
Motorcyle.
Mountains.
It is never the machines that are dead. It is only the mechanically-minded men that are dead.
Natural movement is the shortest way to an effective result. Like the way the water runs, it always finds the right way.
We all like motorcycles to some degree.
Sexual gratification can only be achieved through the use of machines.
This machine kills fascists.
There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible.
I'm not so interested in how they move as in what moves them.
machine. Unexpectedly, I'd invented a time
It is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature.
A man from a primitive culture who sees an automobile might guess that it was powered by the wind or by an antelope hidden under the car, but when he opens up the hood and sees the engine he immediately realizes that it was designed.
I have sought to offer humanists a detailed analysis of a technology sufficiently magnificent and spiritual to convince them that the machines by which they are surrounded are cultural artifacts worthy of their attention and respect.
Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
There are two levers for moving man
interest and fear.
With great profundity I note the pleasure one gets or takes in pushing wheeled objects, as opposed to the depression involved in pulling them.
I drive an electric car.
steel tractor implements buried in more overgrown grass, the rotary blades shining bright from recent use by
like a tank following a sports car through a slalom course.
In the same spirit, when the automobile arrived, there were those that declared the horse to be the most perfect form of locomotion.
For, I must tell you, in this world where today all lose their minds over many & wondrous Machines
some of which, alas, you can see also in this Siege
I construct Aristotelian Machines, that allow anyone to see with Words ...
What does Austin need to move that large car? Powers!
I am so pathetic with machines in real life, it's not a joke. I'd rather walk, or even run, than take the car out myself. I like to be driven around. Yes, I like fancy cars, and fancy bikes, too. It's my dream to learn how to ride one myself, but for now, I am content being driven around.
Don't think that even an engineer, when he buys a motor, takes it to bits to scrutinize it. Even he as a specialist buys from the external appearance. A motor ought to look like a birthday present.
...a herd of motorcycles.
The wings are moved several times by hand to charge the crank chamber with mixture, which flows on through the external pipe and inlet valve to the compression space and cylinder.
There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat. A key glistening in the ignition. I imagine the top speed for that old mower was five miles per hour. It might have taken an hour and a half or more for me to get to the liquor store, but get there I did.
Like our bodies and like our desires, the machines we have devised are possessed of a heart which is slowly reduced to embers.
Tens of thousands who could never afford to own, feed and stable a horse, had by this bright invention enjoyed the swiftness of motion which is perhaps the most fascinating feature of material life.
Out of her mouth came a stream of discrete, miraculous gadgets - tiny but mobile creatures so intricately small that generations marveled and would go on marveling at how the inventor ever got the motors into them.
Animals travel on all fours. Mankind on two. Motorcycling is not a means of transport but an ideology, a nomadic way of life.
How did you learn to drive like that?" Gwen yelled over the howl of six hundred horses. "Watching Jacks." She gunned the engine and slipped around another car. "What?" "You know, watching his shifting." Gwen gasped. "You've been looking at his SHIFTER?
I've got a Range Rover. It's brilliant actually but it's manual.
Robotics are beginning to cross that line from absolutely primitive motion to motion that resembles animal or human behavior.
The guillotine is the masterpiece of the plastic arts
Its click
Creates perpetual motion
("The Head")
Sarah drops her spent handgun and grabs some crazy-looking lightweight machine gun, the kind of thing I used to believe didn't exist outside of action movies.
"You know how to use that thing?" I ask.
"They all work pretty much the same," she replies. "You just point and click.
magnetohydrodynamic
In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass.
We were then satisfied that, with proper lubrication and better adjustments, a little more power could be expected. The completion of the motor according to drawing was, therefore, proceeded with at once.
I'm a machine man, and I head a machine.
Butterflies are self propelled flowers.
Lionel Merble was a machine. Tralfamadorians, of course, say that every creature and plant in the Universe is a machine. It amuses them that so many Earthlings are offended by the idea of being machines.
Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.
I see a film or a TV series or a play as being this machine. It sounds quite robotic, in its description, but it's basically a machine and you're just one of the cogs that goes in it. You're not the biggest one, and you're not the smallest one. Everyone's the same size.
A Ford motorcar is a magical thing in the night with the spraying lamps against the pitch road and the smell of metal and perfume under the clothy roof.
I believe many Harley guys spend more time revving their engines than actually driving anywhere; I sometimes wonder why they bother to have wheels on their motorcycles.
The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
Has a control system so perilously close to intelligence that a government agent must be on hand at all times, ready to destroy the machine if it slips over the threshold into consciousness.
French zombie chauffeur.
The spinning wheel is itself an exquisite piece of machinery. My head daily bows in reverence to its unknown inventor.
Marionettes that control their own strings.
Except for a human-powered hoist described
Disembodied limbs
Model. Two mobile eyes in a mobile head, itself on a mobile body.
I conceived of an instrument that would create sound without using any mechanical energy, like the conductor of an orchestra. The orchestra plays mechanically, using mechanical energy; the conductor just moves his hands, and his movements have an effect on the music artistry.
In the future, you'll simply jump into your car, turn on the Internet, turn on a movie and sit back and relax and turn on the automatic pilot, and the car will drive itself.
The car is not a rabbit or a deer that jumps around in sweeping lines, but it is a man-made work of technology in need of an appropriate roadway.
There are some old machines like antique sewing machine or pasta machine; seeing them is seeing our great grandmothers, touching them is touching our grandmothers!
If you listen to what's on the pop charts, everything is machine oriented.
Either the car is stationary, or it's on the move.
Technology is not a form of robotics but something very human: the creation of tools and techniques that answer certain uses in our lives.
Ahhh! Impossibear has a gas powered stick!
Your mind is more creative than any machine.
He put his foot on one pedal, scooted a few yards and swung his other leg over the saddle. He soared left into the vertiginously sloping hillside road and sped, without touching his brakes ... The hedgerows and sky blurred; he imagined himself in a velodrome as the wind whipped his hair clean ...
Be able to back up a car for a considerable distance in a straight line and back out of a driveway.
To Travel without moving an inch.
Nothing is less instructive than a machine.
Why should one say that the machine does not live? It breathes, for its breath forms the atmosphere of some towns.
Mimi was a human bulldozer, and when she met a seemingly immovable object, she just lowered her blade and revved her engine higher.
A rower knows the underlying presence that moves a boat; it is quite simply force and energy. The force needs to be penetrating, and the energy needs to be driving and uninhibited.
The rotating armatures of every generator and motor in this age of electricity are steadily proclaiming the truth of the relativity theory to all who have ears to hear.
Does anyone know if Lamborghini makes wheelchair vehicles? If not, I want to change that.
Human beings are tool-making animals. Since the prehistoric era, we have created and used a wide variety of objects.
But now a significant change is about to occur.
In the near future, we will simply become another object that can be monitored, tracked and controlled within a vast machine.
The whole worl's in a state o' chassis.