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I have problems with machines which aren't gestural.

With twelve horse power at our command, we considered that we could permit the weight of the machine with operator to rise to 750 or 800 pounds, and still have as much surplus power as we had originally allowed for in the first estimate of 550 pounds.

The ability to do this so quickly was largely due to the enthusiastic and efficient services of Mr. C.E. Taylor, who did all the machine work in our shop for the first as well as the succeeding experimental machines.

Let the machine take care of the machines, and I'll go spend more time with my family, or golf.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly.

I learned the business in about two months, and then made as much as the others, and was consequently doing quite well when the factory burned down, destroying all our machines - 150 of them. This was very hard on the girls who had paid for their machines.

There were sometimes from forty to sixty English machines, but unfortunately the Germans were often in the minority. With them quality was more important than quantity.