Mankind has always drawn from outside sources of energy. This island was the first to harness coal and steam. But our present… — Frederick Soddy Copy Share Image
Not since the steam engine has any invention disrupted business models like the Internet. Whole industries including music distribution, yellow-pages directories, landline… — John Sununu Copy Share Image
Culture is not created by command. It creates itself, arising spontaneously from the necessities of men and their social cooperative activity. No… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
The free expression of opinion, as experience has taught us, is the safety-valve of passion. The noise of the rushing steam, when… — Herbert Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone Copy Share Image
It used to be that you needed a $500-million-a-year company in order to reach a worldwide audience of consumers. Now, all you… — Gabe Newell Copy Share Image
Today, nothing is unusual about a scientific discovery's being followed soon after by a technical application: The discovery of electrons led to… — Edward Teller Copy Share Image
This London City, with all of its houses, palaces, steam-engines, cathedrals, and huge immeasurable traffic an tumult, what is it but a… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Now comes the second machine age. Computers and other digital advances are doing for mental power - the ability to use our… — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
I put steam on the table by being an actor. That is how I live. The longer I live, the more expensive… — Peter O'Toole Copy Share Image
When I know I have a huge shoot, I’ll just go into the sauna and steam out my face. Product-wise, I don’t… — Chanel Iman Copy Share Image
And I never thought this life was possible,You're the yellow bird that I've been waiting for. In polaroids you were dressed in… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
We tend to think of Steam as tools for content developers and tools for producers. We're just always thinking: how do we… — Gabe Newell Copy Share Image
The popular mind often pictures gigantic flying machines speeding across the Atlantic carrying innumerable passengers in a way analogous to our modern… — William Henry Pickering Copy Share Image
You would like to read, but somehow the rain gets into the book, too; not literally, and yet it really does, the… — Sándor Márai Copy Share Image
At some point, that risk-taking private capital can take over, and have patents and trade secrets and things that let them lead… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Wrap fish fillets, sliced veggies, and other quick-cooking items inside foil packets with bundles of fresh herbs and throw them directly on… — Emeril Lagasse Copy Share Image
If human thought is a growth, like all other growths, its logic is without foundation of its own, and is only the… — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
The outline of the city became frantic in its effort to explain something that defied meaning. Power seemed to have outgrown its… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Why does man freeze to death trying to reach the North Pole? Why does man drive himself to suffer the steam and… — Walter Reisch Copy Share Image
A person whose desires and impulses are his own—are the expression of his own nature, as it has been developed and modified… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
When President Teddy Roosevelt posed for the cameras astride a massive steam shovel during construction of the Panama Canal in 1906, it… — Alan Huffman Copy Share Image
A friend of mine pointed out to me, "Why do you separate your writing and your music?" I got (writers) Rick Moody… — John Wesley Harding Copy Share Image
That is the operatic problem; the singer must keep up a big head of steam while trying to appear secretive, or seductive,… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
[I predict] the electricity generated by water power is the only thing that is going to keep future generations from freezing. Now… — Charles Proteus Steinmetz Copy Share Image
Scientists who study play, in animals and humans alike, are developing a consensus view that play is something more than a way… — Robin Marantz Henig Copy Share Image
In 1841 you and I had together a tedious low-water trip, on a Steam Boat from Louisville to St. Louis. You may… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The playwright's rendition of Abraham Lincoln remembers a pitiful little paddlewheel he saw that he could only generate steam to EITHER blow… — Norman Corwin Copy Share Image
It's like a kettle. If it's a kettle, you turn the kettle off, you know what I mean? I wish I could… — Frank Bruno Copy Share Image
Electricity is an example of a general purpose technology, like the steam engine before it. General purpose technologies drive most economic growth,… — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
With 'Godus,' we did Steam Early Access, Android, and iOS. It was quite a rocky road going through all those hoops. — Peter Molyneux Copy Share Image
Harnessing steam power required many innovations, as William Rosen chronicles in the book 'The Most Powerful Idea in the World.' — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The first thing you do when you get off tour is let off some steam and, you know, have some type of… — Lykke Li Copy Share Image
The rockets light! The shuttle leaps off the launch pad in a cloud of steam and a trail of fire. — Sally Ride Copy Share Image