Debian is like an Erector set: You can build all sorts of things with it.
"Debian GNU/Linux: Guide to Installation and Usage"
John Goerzen and Ossama Othman
I also had an Erector Set which had a little motor that ran off the old batteries.
"The-Life-of-Me-an-autobiography"
Johnson, Clarence Edgar
Its application is more general upon planing machine work than any other, although it is frequently used by the lathe hand or turner, and by the vice hand and Erector.
"Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II"
Joshua Rose