#mechanic

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

I wanted to be a mechanic. When I was 14 I wanted to quit school and go work on my car. But my dad said Son, you shouldn't do that. You should stay in school until your education is finished, and when you're done, don't make your hobby your job. ↗

— Eric Bana

#dad #done #education #finished #go

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

The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools. ↗

— Confucius

#diligence #expectations #first #his #life

My grandfather on my mother's side was a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; my other grandfather was a lawyer, and one time Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives. ↗

— Kenneth G. Wilson

#grandfather #house #institute #lawyer #massachusetts

Quantum mechanics brought an unexpected fuzziness into physics because of quantum uncertainty, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. ↗

— Edward Witten

#brought #fuzziness #into #mechanics #physics

It is the advertiser who provides the paper for the subscriber. It is not to be disputed, that the publisher of a newspaper in this country, without a very exhaustive advertising support, would receive less reward for his labor than the humblest mechanic. ↗

— Alexander Hamilton

#advertising #country #disputed #exhaustive #his

The reactions of the human heart are not mechanical and predictable but infinitely subtle and delicate. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#heart #human #human heart #infinitely #mechanical

I am eye. I am a mechanical eye. I, a machine, am showing you a world, the likes of which only I can see. ↗

— Dziga Vertov

#eye #i #i am #i can #likes

It's nice to have a catcher who knows my mechanics, too. That way if I get into trouble he can stop it before I get out of control. ↗

— Tim Wakefield

#catcher #control #get #i #into