Able Quote by Charles Babbage

As an inventor, it's a rite of passage to have an engine. I'd like to have my own engine someday.

— Lonnie Johnson

Life is 440 horsepower in a 2-cylinder engine.

— Henry Miller

The cars haven't advanced that much since we were kids. When you boil it down, it's still a gas combustion engine.

— Dana Brunetti

Done is the engine of more.

— Bre Pettis

The complicated engines manufactured by men demand, if one really wants to use them, much calm. Ever since our love for machines replaced the…

— Man Ray

The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform... But it…

— Ada Lovelace

I will ignore all ideas for new works on engines of war, the invention of which has reached its limits and for whose improvements…

— Sextus Julius Frontinus

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

— Elvis Presley

Will a day come when our cars have carbon-fiber tubs, 18,000-rpm V-10 engines, and ground-effects tunnels? Perhaps, about the same time we have condos…

— Brock Yates

Most people are really stunned to find out that the technology has been around for more than 100 years, and that the diesel engine…

— Daryl Hannah

You can't build an engine that's just good for one type of game anymore. The economics don't work.

— Tim Sweeney

I realized that a methane-oxygen rocket engine could achieve a specific impulse greater than 380.

— Elon Musk