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Factories today are being run less and less by the authority of experience only, and more and more by the authority of figures and facts. The superintendent and manager of long experience and intuitive knowledge only is forced to make room for the younger man, of less experience, perhaps, but who modernizes his work by the jurisdiction of figures alone.
Clinton Edgar Woods
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… as the world rapidly becomes a civilization of machines, the masters of machines will increasingly be the ones in control of the world.
John Howard Dellinger
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Experience alone can teach us the best forms of construction for sailing apparatus in order that they may be of sufficient strength, very light, and most easily managed.
Otto Lilienthal
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