“Like my father, I would never as a child throw anything away, keeping old toys, electric motors and bits of broken machines under my bed in what I called my Box of Useful Things.” ChildrenFatherBitsBrokenBedMachinesBoxesToysElectricMotorUseful ThingsElectric Motors Author:Nick Park
“When we mistake what we can know for all there is to know, a healthy appreciation of one's ignorance in the face of a mystery like soil fertility gives way to the hubris that we can treat nature as a machine. Once that leap has been made, one input follows another, so that when the synthetic nitrogen fed to plants makes them more attractive to insects and vulnerable to disease, as we have discovered, the farmer turns to chemical pesticides to fix his broken machine.” KnowsWayGivingHas BeensMadeFacesTurnsMistakeMysteryLandIgnoranceBrokenHealthyDiseaseMachinesTreatsPlantAppreciationVulnerableAttractiveSoilFedsLeapChemicalsFarmersInsectsInputHubrisFertilitySyntheticPesticidesNitrogen Author:Michael Pollan
“The German army is a machine, and machines can be broken!” BrokenMachinesArmy Author:Konstantin Rokossovsky
“The company-as-a-machine model fits how people think about and operate conventional companies. And, of course, it fits how people think about changing conventional companies: You have a broken company, and you need to change it, to fix it.” PeopleThinkingNeedsCoursesCompanyBrokenFitModelsMachinesConventionalNeed A ChangeYou Need To Change Author:Peter Senge
“Everyone has a time machine. Everyone *is* a time machine. It's just that most people's time machines are broken. The strangest and hardest kind of time travel is the unaided kind. People get stuck, people get looped. People get trapped. But we are all time machines.” PeopleKindBrokenMachinesStuckHardestAll TimeTime TravelTrappedTime MachineKind People Book:How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel Source: How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel
“Maybe that's why a broken machine always makes me a little sad, because it isn't able to do what it was meant to do...Maybe it's the same with people," Hugo continued. "If you lose your purpose...it's like you're broken.” PeopleIfsLittlesAblePurposeLosesBrokenMachines Author:Brian Selznick