Modern ingenuity has made it possible for a child to run some of the machines and the child will get the job while the men must tramp.
I've always worked on the machines, especially the 125 and 250 which are really difficult to set up.
Never wear your necktie while you're operating a lathe.
I think aerobatic flying is athletic. I don't do aerobatic flying, but I would put that in a category of a sport. I would put regular flying in the category of an art or machine-type thing.
The best machinery in the world has to be handled by intelligent people.
Today we would include the concept of programming to be included in “handling”.
A tool is usually more simple than a machine; it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is frequently moved by animal or steam power.
Often people, especially computer engineers, focus on the machines. But in fact we need to focus on humans, on how humans care about doing programming or operating the application of the machines.
A computer is a machine for constructing mappings from input to output.
Pilots enjoy the fun and challenge of handling the fancy machine.
'Liberty Brass' is a small machine that unfolds in a single unpunctuated wave, which is interrupted by the rotating sign, the refrain. Each part is meant to do its work in relentless progression.
Nothing is less instructive than a machine.
I suck as a driver. I believe all cars should be piloted and driven by machines.
It is like a dream to feel the machine lift you gently up in the air, float smoothly over one spot.
The difference between "machines" and "engines" is obviously this, that machines need more workmen and greater power to make them take effect, as for instance ballistae and the beams of presses. Engines, on the other hand, accomplish their purpose at the intelligent touch of a single workman...
Competence is the creed of the technocrat who makes sure the gears mesh but doesn't for a second understand the magic of the machine.
And then, when I thought about joining the Air Force, flying seemed like a natural extension of the motorcycling experience. You're going faster, higher. You're operating a machine that's a lot more powerful than you are.
To wash dishes is not the same as a guy running a numerically-controlled machine. That guy running a numerically-controlled machine is going to get a higher level of pay because his training is higher, and he should get a higher level of pay.
Every important machine's got to have a big red button.