Thumb Instruction Set

Famous quotes containing the words thumb, instruction and/or set:

    “Your small hands, precisely equal to my own—
    only the thumb is larger, longer—in these hands
    I could trust the world, or in many hands like these,
    handling power-tools or steering-wheel
    or touching a human face ...”
    —Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)

    “I turn my gaze
    Back to the instruction manual which has made me dream of
    Guadalajara.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    “I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself.”
    —Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)