Power Mechanics Technology

Famous quotes containing the words power, mechanics and/or technology:

    We know that madness belongs to love,—what power to paint a vile object in hues of heaven.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    the moderate Aristotelian city
    Of darning and the Eight-Fifteen, where Euclid’s geometry
    And Newton’s mechanics would account for our experience,
    And the kitchen table exists because I scrub it.
    —W.H. (Wystan Hugh)

    Our technology forces us to live mythically, but we continue to think fragmentarily, and on single, separate planes.
    Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)