"As the component parts of all new machines may be said to be old[,] it is a nice discriminating judgment, which discovers that a particular arrangement will produce a new and desired effect. ... Therefore, the mechanic should sit down among levers, screws, wedges, wheels, etc. like a poet among the letters of the alphabet, considering them as the exhibition of his thoughts; in which a new arrangement transmits a new idea to the world."

-- Robert Fulton

#Nice Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Machines Quotes

“There is no right and no wrong, and there are consequences”
“Sometimes it takes an outsider, someone with fresh eyes to see the truth.”

Source : Ally Carter (2011). “Heist Society”, p.75, Hachette UK
“We retire too early and we die too young, our prime of life should be in the 70's and old age should not come until we are almost 100.”
“The native must realize that colonialism never gives anything away for nothing.”
“Piano performances by Condoleezza Rice are better than Hitler's paintings.”
“Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.”
“Prior to the 1976 Olympics, I was a 5,000m runner.”
“Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.”

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