#mechanic

A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn. ↗

— C. Northcote Parkinson

#committee #committees #dies #flowers #grows

By reading a lot of novels in a variety of genres, and asking questions, it's possible to learn how things are done - the mechanics of writing, so to speak - and which genres and authors excel in various areas. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#asking #asking questions #authors #done #excel

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. ↗

— Walter Scott

#call #himself #history #knowledge #lawyer

Will is nothing more than a particular case of the general doctrine of association of ideas, and therefore a perfectly mechanical thing. ↗

— Joseph Priestley

#case #doctrine #general #ideas #mechanical

Einstein said that if quantum mechanics were correct then the world would be crazy. Einstein was right - the world is crazy. ↗

— Daniel M. Greenberger

#quantum-mechanics #science #science

She led him past the engine room, which looked like a very dangerous, mechanized jungle gym, with pipes and pistons and tubes jutting from a central bronze sphere. Cables resembling giant metal noodles snaked across the floor and ran up the walls. “How does that thing even work?” Percy asked. “No idea,” Annabeth said. “And I’m the only one besides Leo who can operate it.” “That’s reassuring.” “It should be fine. It’s only threatened to blow up once.” “You’re kidding, I hope.” She smiled. “Come on. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#explosions #heroes-of-olympus #humor #leo-valdez #mechanics

Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#internal #language #mechanical #outcome #thought

My dear Miss Glory, Robots are not people. They are mechanically more perfect than we are, they have an astounding intellectual capacity, but they have no soul. ↗

— Karel Capek

#capacity #dear #glory #intellectual #mechanically

Music's supposed to come from the heart. I felt like that if it ever got mechanical, I was going to back away from it. ↗

— Kenny Chesney

#back #come #ever #felt #going

If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet. ↗

— Niels Bohr

#haven #mechanics #profoundly #quantum #quantum mechanics