Mechanism Quotes

You have all these offenders in that area who could be anywhere. There is no mechanism in place for them to be registering as they should be. - Laura Ahearn

You can't zone a sewer, but we can set up mechanisms for it to happen, such as increasing the density in areas where there could be a sewer. - Nan Stoltzenburg

You are the watcher; the mind is the watched. It is a beautiful mechanism, one of the most beautiful mechanisms that nature has given to you. So you can use it when needed for factual memory -- for phone numbers, for addresses, for names, for faces....It is a good tool, but that's all it is. It need not sit upon you continuously twenty-four hours a day. Even while you are sleeping, it is sitting on your chest torturing you, giving you nightmares. All kinds of relevant and irrelevant thoughts go on and on. - Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

Without comedy as a defense mechanism I wouldn't be able to survive. - Garry Shandling

Within the next couple of weeks, I'll be leaving North America to relocate permanently to Geneva, where many of the United Nations human rights mechanisms are based. - John Fisher

Wikileaks is a mechanism to maximize the flow of information to maximize the amount of action leading to just reform. - Julian Assange

While I believe in the media industry's right to use copy protection mechanisms to prevent illegal copying, I don't think that we've found the right balance of fair use and copy protection yet. This is a clear case of Sony taking [digital rights management] too far. - Mark Russinovich