Quotes about appliance
A collection of quotes on the topic of appliance, use, electricity, other.
Quotes about appliance

1910s, The New Nationalism (1910)
Source: The Rise and Fall of American Growth, 2016, p. 1 ; Lead paragraph

Perestroika: New Thinking For Our Country and the World (1987)
As quoted in TIME magazine (4 January 1988)
1980s
Variant: Soviet rockets can find Halley's comet and fly to Venus with amazing accuracy, but . . . many household appliances are of poor quality.
Source: Generation of Vipers (1942), p. 74

Bernie Ecclestone, discussing Danica Patrick, the female driver who finished fourth in the 2005 Indianapolis 500 race. (Los Angeles Times, 6/21/05, p. A-18.)
Women Know Everything! http://books.google.com/books?id=nTKgWEBhBeoC&pg=PA429&lpg=PA429&dq=There+are+days+when+any+electrical+appliance+in+the+house,+including+the+vacuum+cleaner,+offers+more+entertainment+than+the+TV+set.&source=web&ots=OgBpFo7CWB&sig=ngxgVw4am7DRU0wMlhh9DCs3N7k&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=3&ct=result by Karen Weekes, published by Quirk Books, 2007

“Among the appliances to transform the people, sound and appearances are but trivial influences.”
Source: The Doctrine of the Mean

[Cape Argus staff, Put an end to dangling conversations, Cape Argus, South Africa, 16 September 2008, 13, Independent Online]
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Source: Practical Pictorial Photography, 1898, Printing methods and their bearing on pictorial photography, p. 73

“A wasp in a wig is altogether beyond the appliances of art.”
Refusing to illustrate a proposed chapter in Through the Looking-Glass, as quoted in The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (1898), p. 146

Quoted in The Amazing PlayStation 2, Newsweek (via PR Newswire), 2006-02-26, 2007-01-21 http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/02-27-2000/0001150833&EDATE,

Maurice Strong, opening speech at the 1992 Rio Earth Summit But this quotation is not in the version posted on Mr. Strong's site. http://www.mauricestrong.net/index.php/opening-statement6

“Civilization without its appliances is weaker than barbarism.”
The Canoe and the Saddle: Adventures Among the Northwestern Rivers and Forests (1863), ch. ix: Via Mala.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
The Never-Ending Wrong (1977)
A steady-state economy, 2008

Re: Why lisp failed in the marketplace http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/6dd13ffe0e273031 (Usenet article).
Usenet articles, Miscellaneous