“For when the last best words have been said for the machine it has no marvel comparable to the marvel of the human hand guided by the human mind.”
— The Woodworker, Chips from the Chisel, 1937, page 255
Day: December 25, 2011
The Point of a Pin
“It is not, truly speaking, the labour that is divided, but the men: – divided into mere segments of men – broken into small fragments and crumbs of life; so that all the little piece of intelligence that is left in a man is not enough to make a pin, or a nail, but exhausts itself in the making the point of a pin or the head of a nail.”
— John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice (1853)