Bavington Machine Quotes & Sayings

Automation does not need to be our enemy. I think machines can make life easier for men, if men do not let the machines dominate them. — John F. Kennedy

I was able to see the love of God paving the world around me but I distrusted this knowledge because it was concrete. — Joni Tevis

The only people who you should get even with are those who have helped you. — John Southard

no problem can be solved until an individual assumes the responsibility for solving it. — M. Scott Peck

Having jettisoned all my ballast, I concentrated on escaping. — Walter Moers

The most ordinary things are to philosophy a source of insoluble puzzles. With infinite ingenuity it constructs a concept of space or time and then finds it absolutely impossible that there be objects in this space or that processes occur during this time ... the source of this kind of logic lies in excessive confidence in the so-called laws of thought. — Ludwig Boltzmann

London was a city of ghosts, some deader than others.
Thorne knew that in this respect, it wasn't unlike any other major city - New York or Paris or Sydney - but he felt instinctively that London was ... at the extreme. The darker side of that history, as opposed to the parks, palaces and pearly kings' side that made busloads of Japanese and American tourists gawk and jabber. The hidden history of a city where the lonely, the dispossessed, the homeless, wandered the streets, brushing shoulders with the shadows of those that had come before them. A city in which the poor and the plague-ridden, those long-since hanged for stealing a loaf or murdered for a shilling, jostled for position with those seeking a meal, or a score, or a bed for the night.
A city where the dead could stay lost a long time — Mark Billingham

The very smell of tobacco is abominable, for one cannot get it out of the curtains, and there is little pleasure in existence unless the curtains are all right. — J.M. Barrie

To sweeten the hours we share scandals from the city, how curators removed an elephant's heart from the museum because it began beating when anyone in love looked at it, how the coroner found minnows swimming in a drowned girl's lungs. — Traci Brimhall

I don't think 'my way or the highway' works, that mentality. And that's what the Tea Party has done: drawn a line in the sand. I'm sorry - that doesn't work in business, that doesn't work in your family, it certainly doesn't work in government and our Congress. — Patrick Murphy

Ask me again, once we defeat Gaea. — Rick Riordan

It is easier to cope with a bad conscience than with a bad reputation. — Friedrich Nietzsche

An ordinary potato has had more value than gold several times in history. — K.R. Royal

Marketing is really theater. It's like staging a performance. — John Sculley