Quotes by Smith, Adam

Man is an animal that makes bargains; no other animal does this--one d >>

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is >>

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of d >>

Quotations about Machinery

For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far tr >>

As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will bec >>

I find it hard to believe that the machine would go into the creative >>

The machines that are first invented to perform any particular movement are always the most complex, and succeeding artists generally discover that, with fewer wheels, with fewer principles of motion, than had originally been employed, the same effects may be more easily produced. The first systems, in the same manner, are always the most complex.

Smith, Adam