Backhoes can save us a lot of digging. But of course, you can misuse it.
Demolition is a part of construction.
Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.
I would love to have access to a company like Caterpillar. I would make all their stuff remote controlled and work ten times as fast.
Consider the wheelbarrow. It may lack the grace of an airplane, the speed of an automobile, the initial capacity of a freight car, but its humble wheel marked out the path of what civilization we still have.
I am writing a book called 'The History of Australia in Hundred Objects.' It's of things we have invented in Australia. And you know, some of them are amazing. We invented the clapper boards used in films. We invented those cranes - those big long cranes used on construction sites.
Ultimately, I know what I'm doing and why I'm doing it. I'm trying to be a construction worker. I'm trying to make things. If people are not interested in that, fine. I just don't give a damn.
I no longer want to live in an apartment furnished with forklifts and backhoes.
The bulldozer and not the atomic bomb may turn out to be the most destructive invention of the 20th century
I worked construction clean-up. I was driving a pickup truck at the age of 14 on a construction site. I loved building and being part of the process. You got to see your work.
My son is all into construction vehicles like most boys are, so he's enthralled with dump trucks and bulldozers.
I think one of the most groundbreaking inventions of all time is the jackhammer.
I'm pretty certain that I'm the only son of a billionaire who can drive a D10 Caterpillar better than I can drive a golf cart.
Whereas an elephant that was scared to death that diesel powered equipment, equipment that ran on a gas engine, was just fine. Because somebody had attacked it with construction equipment. But if it had a diesel engine, it was bad.
As soon as you have good mechanical technology, you can make things like backhoes that can dig holes in the road. But of course a backhoe can knock your head off. But you don't want to not develop a backhoe because it can knock your head off, that would be regarded as silly.
I am on the hunt for constructions. I come into a room and find them whitely merging in a corner.
