A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful. John Jay Chapman
[After describing a hopper for feeding winter game:] If you think you're too old to enjoy building such contraptions - that only Boy Scouts get a kick out of such nonsense - just try it. You may end up by building several. Aldo Leopold
Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority. Henri Poincaré
Neutrinos alone, among all the known particles, have ethereal properties that are striking and romantic enough both to have inspired a poem by John Updike and to have sent teams of scientists deep underground for 50 years to build huge science-fiction-like contraptions to unravel their mysteries. Lawrence M. Krauss
Deciding not to draw too much attention to himself, Derrick’s hired to write content for Spectacular Contraptions, the company that’s preparing for the celebratory release of Pooka 2.0. Source: Internet
I have to imagine that there was once upon a time a buggy whip maker who shook his head at the newfangled auto-mobiles scaring the horses and thought the contraptions a fad that would pass … Source: Internet