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.

Look long on an engine. It is sweet to the eyes.

You can't make anything idiot proof because idiots are so ingenious.

The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.

You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steamroller will not plant flowers.

The way to get killed around machinery was to take things for granted.

Gutenberg made everybody a reader. Xerox makes everybody a publisher.

Like all country boys they revered machines and understood them.