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Opus Dei is an efficient machine run to achieve world power.
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People of God (1989)

 

Penny Lernoux

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There are two styles of walls "opus reticulatum," now used by everybody and the ancient style called "opus incertum." Of these, the reticulatum looks better, but its construction makes it likely to crack... On the other hand, in the opus incertum, the rubble lying in courses and imbricated, makes a wall which though not beautiful, is stronger.

 

Vitruvius

 

I suggest that the hon. gentleman may be a good corporation lawyer, but he is slipping badly in his history. The capitalist system did not produce the machine age; the machine age produced the capitalist system. The material prosperity that the world has enjoyed for the last seventy-five years or one hundred years has been due to the introduction of power; steam power, then electric power and the internal combustion engine. The capitalist system or the free enterprise system - the terms are synonymous and interchangeable - was the product of the power age. The capitalist system did not produce the power age.

 

Tommy Douglas

 

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Satoru Iwata

 

Emas non quod opus est, sed quod necesse est. Quod non opus est, asse carum est.

 

Cato the Elder

 

By understanding a machine-oriented language, the programmer will tend to use a much more efficient method; it is much closer to reality.

 

Donald Knuth