Nobody does bourgeois solidity like the Germans.

Solms is the place to go, if you want to find the most beautiful mechanical objects in the world.

Automobiles need gas, whereas the truest mechanisms run on nothing but themselves.

... durable, companionable, costly, and basically unchanging, like a spouse.

The great inventions, more often than not, are triggered less by vast historical movements than by the pressures of individual chance.

This is not just a question of ergonomics ... Rather, it has to do with ... the illusion, fostered by a mere machine, that the world out there is asking to be looked at —— to be caught and consumed while it is fresh, like a trout.