On my walk to work this morning I saw a woman swinging her arm with extreme precision. Each swing matched the previous. She was walking as if it were a predefined motion. It made me think about machines making precise movements. I could not find an quote to fit my exact thoughts, so I found two of interest instead.
"No one knows where he who invented the plow was born, nor where he died; yet he has done more for humanity than the whole race of heroes who have drenched the earth with blood and whose deeds have been handed down with a precision proportionate only.” - Charles Caleb Colton
"No one knows where he who invented the plow was born, nor where he died; yet he has done more for humanity than the whole race of heroes who have drenched the earth with blood and whose deeds have been handed down with a precision proportionate only.” - Charles Caleb Colton
"The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to imply that he is without purpose. This shows a lack of understanding of machines as well as of man. " - Arthur Young
