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- Nov 07, 2020
Conveyor Quotes
On conveyors of information, industry, and creative work.
This page collects quotes using the conveyor as both metaphor and machine, from prices conveying information to songs made without a belt-like process.
- Last Updated on Aug 01, 2026
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
The kind of event on a conveyor belt that causes a fire occurs in a variety of industrial environments, not uniquely in coal environments.
- Chopping
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- Nov 07, 2020
Songs are not on a conveyor belt. I'm not chopping them up and putting them out.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that creative work, music in particular, is a conveyor of inner emotional life. I don't feel one way all the time, so I don't want my music to feel the same way all the time.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
Baseball always gets credit for the foundational part of masculinity - the father thing. The eternal game of backyard catch, 'Field of Dreams', the Ripkens, the Griffeys, the Bondses, so on. But football is the real paternal game, because it's a conveyor belt of father figures, in the form of coaches.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's totally produced now. It's almost like a conveyor belt of what metal's supposed to be like these days. It's not music to me.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020