Maelzel Automaton Quotes & Sayings

I know how it feels to be told that it's all in your mind. It drives you mad. — Sally Brampton

tells me, just as casual as someone — Charlotte Stein

But poor old Dim kept looking up at the stars and planets and the Luna with his rot wide open like a kid who'd never viddied any such thing before, and he said: "What's on them, I wonder. What would be up there on things like that?" I nudged him hard, saying: "Come, gloopy bastard as thou art. Think thou not on them. There'll be life like down here most likely, with some getting knifed and others doing the knifing. — Anthony Burgess

The goodness of a thing created is the perfection of its fitness for the use which it serves. Now that use is either particular or universal. — William Ames

All men are enemies. All animals are comrades — George Orwell

Belief cannot be reckoned with in terms of science, for science and faith are mutually exclusive. — Rudolf Virchow

The subject of management is man; the objective of management is the moving of man's mind and will and imagination. — David Lilienthal

You Americans are a very singular people," he later recalled to one of his friends. "I went with my automaton all over my own country - the Germans wondered and said nothing. In France they exclaimed, Magnifique! Merveilleux! Superbe! The English set themselves to prove - one that it could be, and another that it could not be, a mere mechanism acting without a man inside. But I had not been long in your country, before a Yankee came to see me and said, 'Mr Maelzel, would you like another thing like that? I can make you one for five hundred dollars.' I laughed at his proposition. A few months afterwards, the same Yankee came to see me again, and this time he said, 'Mr Maelzel, would you like to buy another thing like that? I have one already made for you. — Tom Standage

I just want to bring the world together. Togetherness is what I want for this planet. — Michael Jackson

When you're comfortable with someone, you don't look for anyone else. — Daniela Pestova

Being a parent is amazing. — Angela Kinsey

I think that Peter Mandelson, particularly in relation to the issue of policing, made a huge mess of it. He allowed himself to be manipulated by the securocrats within the British establishment. — Martin McGuinness

The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God - a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that - and he must be about His Father's Business, the service of a vast, vulgar and meretricious beauty. — F Scott Fitzgerald