Bearings Quotes

It`s a lot of fun, but my body`s definitely telling me that it`s glad that it`s over. It`s sore. It`s tired. It`s like you get hit by this wave and you get knocked down by this dance. You come up for air and feel like you`re getting your bearings again and all of a sudden `boom,` another week comes and you got to learn another dance.

We just worked hard at it, ... They had the car set up on the edge. If something had happened and I had to hit the brakes, I wouldn`t have had any. They were pushing everything to the limit, using special grease in the wheel bearings and things like that - stuff you wouldn`t really need today, but you did then.

No one hit home runs the way Babe did. They were something special. They were like homing pigeons. The ball would leave the bat, pause briefly, suddenly gain its bearings, then take off for the stands.

(While he gets his bearings, he`s still living in a hotel, although he`s found a place in the Fort Lauderdale area.) I don`t have any furniture, ... Someone`s working on it for me.

Machines this small tend to stick to everything they touch, the way sand sticks to your feet after a day at the beach, ... So we built these microrobots without any wheels or hinged joints, which must slide smoothly on their bearings. Instead, these robots move by bending their bodies like caterpillars. At very small scales, this machine is surprisingly fast.