Engines Quotes · Page 20

[We] assume that social progress is like technological progress: one cannot uninvent the internal combustion engine, so how could one uninvent liberty?

— Mark Steyn

For seeing life is but a motion of Limbs... why may we not say, that all Automata (Engines that move themselves by…

— Thomas Hobbes

Spoken of the young Archimedes: . . . [he] was as much enchanted by the rudiments of algebra as he would have…

— Archimedes

The only way an established enterprise can dramatically increase its stock price is by adding a net new high-growth earnings engine to…

— Geoffrey Moore

It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone…

— Mark Twain

When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas…

— Thomas Carlyle

I believe everyone should have an opportunity to search for truth their own way. Humility, peace, child-like enthusiasm, acceptance, and sincerity is…

— Akiane Kramarik

The tall modern office building is the machine pure and simple...the engine, the motor and the battleship the works of the century.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Having a great deal of opportunity proves nothing. Opportunity without creative action is like a brand new Ferrari without an engine. You…

— Ernie J Zelinski

The mighty steam-engine has its germ in the simple boiler in which the peasant prepares his food. The huge ship is but…

— John Timbs

I tell you what I really fear. I fear aeroplanes. When the flight's all right and smooth I'm still thinking, 'what if…

— Muhammad Ali

There are over 2 million cars standing in front of red lights with their engines going. Then we have over 2 million…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Love your experiments (as you would an ugly child). Joy is the engine of growth. Exploit the liberty in casting your work…

— Bruce Mau

The switch from ten-cylinder to eight-cylinder engines means that each manufacturer has to redevelop its power train. Not all will manage to…

— Michael Schumacher

I don'tsell cars; I sell engines. The cars I throw in for free since something has tohold the engines in.

— Enzo Ferrari

I guess the two things I was most interested in were telescopes and steam engines. My father was an engineer on a…

— Clyde Tombaugh

I think not just Nigeria but I think the whole of Africa has to turn back to the rural areas and that's…

— Chinua Achebe

One naturally asks, what was the use of this great engine set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over,…

— Louis Agassiz

My practical approach based on experience is to create a website for real Internet users, not for search engine spiders.

— David Naylor

And in that narrow cockpit I wept, as I shall never weep again, when I felt the concrete brush against his wheels…

— Pierre Clostermann

Enthusiasm is the electric current that keeps the engine of life going at top speed.

— W. Clement Stone

Under the engine cover, no one cares what's in there. Nobody cares.

— Bernie Ecclestone

If you would've asked me about getting a pilot's license before 2005, I'd say you were crazy. After I graduated college, a…

— Jessica Cox

It's not like you're closing the old doors and that investigators working away in a laboratories on a unique hypothesis are no…

— Francis Collins

The ultimate search engine... would understand exactly what you mean and give back exactly what you want.

— Larry Page