A great factory with the machinery all working and revolving with absolute and rhythmic regularity and with the men all driven by one impulse and moving in unison as though a constituent part of the mighty machine is one of the most inspiring examples of directed force that the world knows. I have rarely seen the face of a mechanic in the action of creation which was not fine never one which was not earnest and impressive.
But lo! men have become the tools of their tools.
The peculiar malaise of our day is air-conditioned unhappiness the staleness and stuffiness of machine-made routine.
It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.
Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.
Big machines are the awe-inspiring cathedrals of the 20th century.
It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the days toil of any human being.
The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.
Mine was the role of the oilcan in making the machinery clunk around.
Automatic simply means that you cant repair it yourself.
The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be the slaves instead of the masters of men.
Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what its supposed to do.
A great factory with the machinery all working and revolving with absolute and rhythmic regularity and with the men all driven by one impulse and moving in unison as though a constituent part of the mighty machine is one of the most inspiring examples of directed force that the world knows. I have rarely seen the face of a mechanic in the action of creation which was not fine never one which was not earnest and impressive.
Watsons Law: The reliability of machinery is inversely proportional to the number and significance of any persons watching it.