Mechanical Systems Quotes

On the molecular scale, you find it's reasonable to have a machine that does a million steps per second, a mechanical system that works at computer speeds.

We want our buildings to work like a machine that will create a pleasurable environment.

Almost everything is like a machine.

Ha, but my life is a box of wormgears.

I like mechanical things; my first book was a mechanics guide - that was what my parents couldn't pry away from me; that was the blanket.

There are a lot of parallels between what we're doing and an expensive watch. It's very complex, has a lot of parts and it only has value when it's predictable and reliable.

The computer, being a mechanical moron, can handle only quantifiable data.

I loved problems on paper, and I was good at math, but I was a mechanical engineer, and I never understood - or cared to - how a car worked.

A lot of things work better in a locomotive.

The question of engineering should be of interest not only to those of us who are engineers, but to the entire public which lives in an engineering world

I'm fearless when it comes to engineering and motors and gears and pulleys and glass and artwork.

An automobile has about 10,000 moving parts, right? An airplane has two million, and it has to stay up in the air.

All this, the positive and physical essence of mechanics, which makes its chief and highest interest for a student of nature, is in existing treatises completely buried and concealed beneath a mass of technical considerations.

Engineering is the application of scientific principles toward practical ends. If the engineering isn't practical, it's bad engineering.

I love industry. Pipes. I love fluid and smoke. I love man-made things. I like to see people hard at work, and I like to see sludge and man-made waste.

Simple mechanisms do not love.

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...

I'd like an old car just so I can control the windows with a handle. I hate electronic windows.

To know the machine one must know where each part belongs, and what its office is.

Videogames are indeed design: They're sophisticated virtual machines that echo the mechanical systems inside cars.

Mechanics is the paradise of the mathematical sciences because by means of it one comes to the fruits of mathematics.

I happen to love engineering. I love figuring things out in a spatial sense, that whole realm of working with mechanical parts, and the relationship of the parts, and things like ratios and the speeds of particular objects.

If you're serious about being an architect, you've got to learn how to take responsibility. It's not fluff. You have to do every detail on every bloody piece of the building. You have to know how the engineering works. You have to know how the fittings go together. You have to master the mechanical, electrical, acoustical - everything.

I enjoy working on anything mechanical.

You have to do every detail on every bloody piece of the building. You have to know how the engineering works. You have to know how the fittings go together. You have to master the mechanical, electrical, acoustical - everything.