Pivots Quotes
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It's all done with gears. Also pinions, snails, arbors; pawls and ratchets; and cam followers; cables, levers, bell cranks, and pivots.
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More Pivots Quotes
One of the hidden hinges of twentieth-century writing, the place where, before our eyes, the nonsense-fantastical tradition of Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear pivots and becomes the nightmare-fantastical tradition of Kafka and Borges .
— Adam Gopnik, in "The Back of the World : The Troubling Genius of G.K. Chesterton" in The New Yorker (7 July 2008), p. 52
Analysis and synthesis ordinarily clarify matters for us about as much as taking a Swiss watch apart and dumping its wheels, springs, hands, threads, pivots, screws and gears into a layman's hands for reassembling, clarifies a watch to a layman.
— Unknown, in Accelerated Testing and Validation, Elsevier, 01-Jul-2004, p.191
