A mathematician,” he liked to say, “is a machine for turning coffee into theorems.
2 Mach. xiv. 15. _Deus qui signis evidentibus suam portionem protegit._
You would think that the more a man knows and loves God, the deeper he gets into understanding His Word, and the further he progresses in personal holiness, the better he would be at being a watchful man, but that is sadly not the case.
Auch fur die rauhe Brust giebt's Augenblicke / Wo dunkle Machte Melodien wecken=--Even the rude breast has moments in which dark powers awaken melodies.
The body is a machine of the nature of an army..... Of this army each cell is a soldier, an organ a brigade, the central nervous system headquarters and field telegraph, the alimentary and circulatory system the commissariat Losses are made good by recruits born in camp, and the life of the individual is a campaign, conducted successfully for a number of years, but with certain defeat in the long run.
Let the road be rough and dreary, / And its end far out of sight, / Foot it bravely! strong or weary, / "Trust in God, and do the right."
Der kann nicht klagen uber harten Spruch, den man zum Meister seines Schicksals macht=--He cannot complain of a hard sentence who is made master of his own fate.
Invidus alterius macrescit rebus opimis=--The envious man grows lean at the prosperity of another.
Laughter and tears are meant to turn the wheels of the same machinery of sensibility; one is wind-power, and the other water-power, that is all.
Ich schweige zu vielem still; denn ich mag die Menschen nicht irre machen, und bin wohl zufrieden, wenn sie sich freuen, da wo ich mich argere=--I keep silent to a great extent, for I don't choose to lead others into error, and am well content if they are happy in matters about which I vex myself.
Has any man, or any society of men, a truth to speak, a piece of spiritual work to do; they can nowise proceed at once and with the mere natural organs, but must first call a public meeting, appoint committees, issue prospectuses, eat a public dinner; in a word, construct or borrow machinery, wherewith to speak it and do it. Without machinery they were hopeless, helpless; a colony of Hindoo weavers squatting in the heart of Lancashire.
Edel macht das Gemuth, nicht das Geblut=--It is the mind, not the blood, that ennobles.
Thu' nur das Rechte in deinen Sachen, / Das Andre wird sich von selber machen=--In thy affairs do thou only what is right, the rest will follow of itself.
The frivolous work of polished idleness.
If I can put one touch of a rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.--_George MacDonald._
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day, to the last syllable of recorded time; and all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
"Don't think; let the machine do it for you!"
People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.
How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life. This is our modern danger — one of the waxen wings of flight. It may cause our civilization to fall unless we act quickly to counteract it, unless we realize that human character is more important than efficiency, that education consists of more than the mere accumulation of knowledge.
Man is the arch-machine of which all these shifts drawn from himself are toy models. He helps himself on each emergency by copying or duplicating his own structure, just so far as the need is=.
Every fiction since Homer has taught friendship, patriotism, generosity, contempt of death. These are the highest virtues; and the fictions which taught them were therefore of the highest, though not of unmixed, utility.--_Sir J. Mackintosh._
[H]ere is an educational bombshell: Take from all of today’s industrial nations all their industrial machinery and all their energy-distributing networks, and leave them all their ideologies, all their political leaders, and all their political organizations, and I can tell you that within six months, two billion people will die of starvation, having gone through great pain and deprivation along the way. [ Utopia or Oblivion. ] However, if we leave the industrial machinery and their energy-distribution networks and leave them also all the people who have routine jobs operating the industrial machinery and distributing its products, and we take away from all the industrial countries all their ideologies and all the politicians and political machine workers, people would keep right on eating. Possibly getting on a little better than before. [ Utopia or Oblivion. ]
Gleiches Blut, gleiches Gut, und gleiche Jahre machen die besten Heirathspaare=--Like blood, like estate, and like age make the happiest wedded pair.
Let the machine do the dirty work.
We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.
Die vernunftige Welt ist als ein grosses unsterbliches Individuum zu betrachten, das unaufhaltsam das Nothwendige bewirkt und dadurch sich sogar uber das Zufallige zum Herrn macht=--The rational world is to be regarded as a great immortal individuality, that is ever working out for us the necessary (_i.e._, an order which all must submit to), and thereby makes itself lord and master of everything contingent (or accidental).
Ubereilung thut nicht gut; / Bedachtsamkeit macht alle Dinge besser=--Precipitation spoils everything; consideration improves everything.
Gleich sei keiner dem andern; doch gleich sei jeder dem Hochsten. Wie das zu machen? Es sei jeder vollendet in sich=--Let no one be like another, yet every one like the Highest. How is this to be done? Be each one perfect in himself.
How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old.
Wer nichts furchtet, ist nicht weniger machtiger, als der, den alles furchtet=--He who fears nothing is not less mighty than he whom everything fears.
[A] free society should be a proprietary society, in the sense of a wide diffusion of property ownership. A great majority of men and women must have a direct stake in the existing order, and a corresponding interest in its preservation. I do not mean that we should endeavor to return to the days of handicraft and of the individual artisan, as has been suggested by a number of writers. We cannot afford to sacrifice all of the immense benefits of mass production. But we must do all in our power to encourage home ownership, farm ownership and the growth of small business enterprises. [ The Seventeen Million , New York: Macmillan, 1937, p. 52.]
He had a head which statuaries loved to copy, and a foot the deformity of which the beggars in the streets mimicked.
There 's a good time coming, boys! A good time coming.
I have not the Chancellor's encyclopedic mind. He is indeed a kind of semi-Solomon. He _half_ knows everything, from the cedar to the hyssop.
For a long time it puzzled me how something so expensive, so leading edge, could be so useless. And then it occured to me that a computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match.
Heavier than air flying machines are impossible.
I never could believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden. RICHARD RUMBOLD, _on the scaffold, 1685. History of England (Macaulay), Chap. v._ The last link is broken That bound me to thee, And the words thou hast spoken Have render'd me free.
Gesetz ist machtig, machtiger ist die Noth=--Law is powerful; necessity is more so.
Bon? leges malis ex moribus procreantur=--Good laws grow out of evil acts.
The annual produce of the land and labor of any nation can be increased to its value by no other means, but by increasing either the number of its productive labourers, or the productive powers of those labourers who before had been employed…. The productive powers of the same number of labourers cannot be increased, but in consequence of an increase in capital or the funds destined for maintaining them. The productive powers of the same number of labourers cannot be increased, but in consequence of either some addition and improvement of those machines and instruments which facilitate and abridge labour…. [ The Wealth of Nations , Book Two, Chapter Three, Modern Library: New York, p.326.]
Oh, how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living!--_Philip, King of Macedon._
When Augustus learnt that Herod's own son was among the children under the age of two years whom he had commanded to be slain, he said that it was better to be Herod's pig than his son. Macrob. _Saturn_. Lib. ii., c. 4.
We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. … Bully-worship, under various disguises, has become a universal religion, and such truisms as that a machine-gun is still a machine-gun even when a "good" man is squeezing the trigger … have turned into heresies which it is actually becoming dangerous to utter.
The kings of the earth set themselves, And the rulers take counsel together, Against the LORD and against His Anointed, saying, 3“Let us break Their bonds in pieces And cast away Their cords from us.” 4He who sits in the heavens shall laugh;
Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.
If Machiavelli were a programmer, he'd have worked for AT&T.;
Here is the prime condition of success: Concentrate your energy, thought and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged. Having begun on one line, resolve to fight it out on that line, to lead in it, adopt every improvement, have the best machinery, and know the most about it. [Quoted at http://www.icelebz.com/quotes/andrew_carnegie/ ].
Gott ist machtiger und weiser als wir; darum macht er mit uns nach seinem Gefallen=--God is mightier and wiser than we; therefore he does with us according to his good pleasure.
Ein Titel muss sie erst vertraulich machen=--A degree is the first thing necessary to bespeak confidence in your profession.
One has to look out for engineers -- they begin with sewing machines
As industrialization increases and the impact of technology and automation becomes more pronounced, the importance of a second income derived from the individual’s investment in such progress (of machinery) will become of ever-increasing importance. [“Widespread Share-Ownership, Bulwark Against State Socialism,” Canada Month , August 1969.]
Gott macht gesund, und der Doktor kriegt das Geld=--God cures us, and the doctor gets the fee.
Such a man will omit neither family worship, nor a sneer at his neighbor. He will neither milk his cows on the first day of the week without a Sabbath mask on his face, nor remove it while he waters the milk for his customers.--_George Mac Donald._
We will have to choose not between color nor race nor religion nor between East and West either, but simply between being slaves and being free. And we will have to choose completely and for good; the time is already past now when we can choose a little of each, a little of both. We can choose a state of slavedom, and if we are powerful enough to be among the top two or three or ten, we can have a certain amount of license — until someone more powerful rises and has us machine-gunned against a cellar wall. [ Harper’s Magazine , June, 1956.]
The best way to accelerate a Macintoy is at 9.8 meters per second per second.
Die Eintracht nur macht stark und gross, / Die Zwietracht sturzet alles nieder=--Only concord makes us strong and great; discord overthrows everything.
Duty, Honor, Country — those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. They are your rallying point to build courage when courage seems to fail, to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith, to create hope when hope becomes forlorn.
If Machiavelli were a hacker, he'd have worked for the CSSG.
Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.
Verum ubi plura nitent in carmine, non ego paucis / Offendar maculis=--But where many beauties shine in a poem, I will not be offended at a few blots.
Wer ist machtiger als der Tod? / Wer da kann lachen, wenn er droht=--Who is mightier than death? He who can smile when death threatens.
“Money and Credit are essentially of the same nature; Money being only the highest and most general form of Credit.” [ The Theory of Credit. Longmans, Green and Co., 1894, p. 82.]
There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles II. But the seamen were not gentlemen, and the gentlemen were not seamen.
The master of slaves has seldom the soul of a man.
Sure the shovel and tongs To each other belongs.
Heroes are much the same, the point's agreed, / From Macedonia's madman to the Swede.
One of the persistent myths (of the labor movement) is that labor is striving for a fair share of what it helps to produce. Instead it is, unwittingly, striving for subservience (to the machine).… The challenge facing labor is to become involved in the process of new capital formation. The new dimension in labor activity should be to marshal (its forces) for a direct individual participation in the ownership of productive capital…. [ The (Toronto) Telegram , March 21, 1967.]
Pete Wilson, gave a message on prayer, specifically citing this idea many of us have that prayer is a kind of transaction. Beside him on the platform, an object the size of a refrigerator stood cloaked beneath a black cover. He said, “Most of us have reduced prayer down to a transaction. A way to manipulate what we want. A vending machine.”2 At that point, he yanked off the cover revealing a large vending machine, loaded with all kinds of snacks. He inserted some coins and pushed the button for peanut M&Ms (smart man, my pastor). Nothing happened. He hit the machine a couple of times, tried to rock it. Nothing. He continued. “Most of the time when we go to God, it’s because we want something. If we get what we want, we turn and walk off, satisfied. If we don’t get what we want, we get frustrated; we kick the machine and blame God for not answering our request.”3
Einen Wahn verlieren macht weiser als eine Wahrheit finden=--Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.
For three thousand years it had been the concent’s policy to accept any and all folding chairs and collapsible tables made available to it, and never throw one away. On one and only one occasion, this had turned out to be a wise policy: the millennial Apert of 3000, when 27,500 pilgrims had swarmed in through the gates to enjoy a square meal and see the End of the World. We had folding chairs made of bamboo, machined aluminum, aerospace composites, injection-molded poly, salvaged rebar, hand-carved wood, bent twigs, advanced newmatter, tree stumps, lashed sticks, brazed scrap metal, and plaited grass. Tabletops could be made of old-growth lumber, particle board, extruded titanium, recycled paper, plate glass, rattan, or substances on whose true nature I did not wish to speculate. Their lengths ranged from two to twenty-four feet and their weights from that of a dried flower to that of a buffalo.
It's fabulous! We haven't seen anything like it in the last half an hour!
_The arrangement._ A letter of advice to a friend to lead him to seek, and he will answer: What is the good of seeking, since nothing comes to light.--Then to answer him: "Do not despair."--And he will answer that he would be glad to find some light, but that according to this very Religion, thus to believe, will be of no use to him: and that therefore he would as soon not seek. And to answer to that: The machine.
Nick Machiavel had ne'er a trick, Though he gave his name to our Old Nick.
_Perseus, King of Macedon._--Paulus Emilius reproached Perseus for not killing himself.
Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.
I believe that a wide distribution of property is the greatest safeguard of a free society, and I would like to see so wide a distribution, among so large a proportion of the families of the country, as to combine security with freedom and to fix the character of society, making it neither Communist nor Fascist, but Proprietary. [ Liberalism Fights On , New York: Macmillan, 1936, p. 156.]
Die letzte Wahl steht auch dem Schwachsten offen; / Ein Sprung von dieser Brucke macht mich frei=--The last choice of all is open even to the weakest; a leap from this bridge sets me free.
It is a ruinous misjudgment, too contemptible to be asserted, but not too contemptible to be acted upon, that the end of poetry is publication.--_George MacDonald._
What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!
Cleon hath a million acres,--ne'er a one have I; Cleon dwelleth in a palace,--in a cottage I.
A nation which labours, and takes care of the fruits of labour, would be rich and happy, though there were no gold in the universe.= _Ruskin._ [Greek: Ananka d' oude theoi machontai]--The gods themselves do not fight against necessity.
Diffused knowledge immortalizes itself.
On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament!], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
Der hat die Macht, an den die Menge glaubt=--He has the power whom the majority believe in.
A tool is but the extension of a man’s hand and a machine is but a complex tool; and he that invents a machine augments the power of man and the well-being of mankind. [Needs citation.]
The history of nations, in the sense in which I use the word, is often best studied in works not professedly historical.
Punishment of a miser--to pay the drafts of his heir in his tomb.= _Hawthorne._ [Greek: pyr machaira me skaleuein]--Don't stir fire with sword.
Nicanor lay dead in his harness.
Verbunden werden auch die Schwachen machtig=--Even the weak become strong when they are united.
_The letter which shows the use of proofs by the machine._ Faith is different from proof; the one is human, the other the gift of God. _Justus ex fide vivit._ It is this faith that God himself puts into the heart, of which the proof is often the instrument, _fides ex auditu_; but this faith is in the heart, and makes us say not _scio_, but _credo_.
The sweeter sound of woman's praise.
If Machiavelli were a programmer, he'd have worked for AT
Giebt es Krieg, so macht der Teufel die Holle weiter=--When war falls out, the devil enlarges hell.
[We] use bad software and bad machines for the wrong things.
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning, published by the MIT Press, present findings from current research on how young people learn, play,
When we experience God for who He really is, we suddenly see ourselves for who we are.
Few men are brave by nature, but good discipline and experience make many so. Good order and discipline in an army are more to be depended upon than ferocity.
Free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular.
"War," says Machiavel, "ought to be the only study of a prince;" and by a prince he means every sort of state, however constituted. "He ought," says this great political doctor, "to consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes ability to execute military plans." A meditation on the conduct of political societies made old Hobbes imagine that war was the state of nature.
Yet those who wait for the LORD will gain new strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles, they will run and not get tired.
Die Anmut macht unwiderstehlich=--Grace makes its possessor irresistible.
But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.--_George MacDonald._
Those who do it always would as soon think of being conceited of eating their dinner as of doing their duty. What honest boy would pride himself on not picking a pocket? A thief who was trying to reform would.--_George MacDonald._
These be the great Twin Brethren To whom the Dorians pray.
Neither painting nor fighting feed men; nor can capital, in the form of money or machinery, feed them.
La guerre était terminée et Frau Emmi Klatte faisait de la récupération. Il ne tombait plus de bombes et les tirs d'artillerie avaient cessé également. La grande ville paraissait morte et détruite, mais il y avait des restes. Au milieu des ruines se dressaient les fantômes insolites de quelques maisons désertes restées debout. Tout appartenait à tout le monde. Mon myosotis de belle-mère rôdait comme une possédée dans ce désert, et rafla entre autres une machine à coudre, quelques machines à écrire, quatre tapis, dix-sept coquetiers, un cadre doré, une porte en fer forgé, un poulailler et un tableau monumental. La toile représentait un nu d'un rose vaporeux, une femme à demi allongée sur le ventre, balançant au bout d'un index également rose un magnifique papillon bleu. Rêveuse et l'air absent, comme il se doit.
Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the Gate: "To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late. And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers, And the temples of his gods, And for the tender mother Who dandled him to rest, And for the wife who nurses His baby at her breast, And for the holy maidens Who feed the eternal flame, To save them from false Sextus That wrought the deed of shame?"
Luxury is a nice master, hard to be pleased.
The Macintosh is Xerox technology at its best.
Die Menge macht den Kunstler irr' und scheu=--The multitude is a distraction and scare to the artist.
Jede Macht, welche wir uber andere Gegenstande ausuben, hangt von der Macht ab, die wir uber uns selbst besitzen=--All the power which we, in every case, exercise over other objects depends on the power we have over ourselves.
It's right to trust in God; but if you don't stand to your halliards, your craft'll miss stays, and your faith'll be blown out of the bolt-ropes in the turn of a marlinspike.--_George MacDonald._
Water, the vital moisture of the earthly machine, moves by reason of its natural heat.
Aus der schlechtesten Hand kann Wahrheit noch machtig wirken; / Bei dem Schonen allein macht das Gefass den Gehalt=--Truth may work mightily though in the hand of the sorriest instrument; in the case of the beautiful alone the casket constitutes the jewel (_lit._ the vessel makes the content).
Out of his surname they have coined an epithet for a knave, and out of his Christian name a synonym for the Devil.