John Muir Quote by Matthew B. Crawford

Man seems to be a rickety poor sort of thing, any way you take him; a kind of British Museum of infirmities and inferiorities.…

— Mark Twain

“They were determined to find something mechanically wrong with him - because broken machines are easier to fix. p303”

— Lionel Shriver

For me, muscle cars are a tribute to American ingenuity.

— Killer Mike

He had a tremendous propensity for getting lost when driving. This was largely because of his method of “Zen” navigation, which was simply to…

— Douglas Adams

“It disguises itself as motor vehicle knowledge, but really it's physics, which any other time would be fascinating but not right now, not while…

— Polly Horvath

This car of mine, I am tickled to death with it. The machine is nearly everything, its power, stability and balance. The driver, allowing…

— Malcolm Campbell

“he mentally calculated the brand, age, and capacity of the machine in front of him, Slade gave a delighted giggle.  Early twenty-first century technology…

— Sara King

'The Driver' wasn't commercially successful at the time, but when I was a teenager, I had no knowledge of that.

— Edgar Wright

“This book comes from the reflections and experience of more than forty years spent in court. Aside from the practice of my profession, the…

— Clarence Darrow

Everything seems to be designed for the benefit of the automobile and not the benefit of the human being.

— Bill Bryson

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly. He is like a watch of which the most that can be said is that…

— H. L. Mencken

“I was a specialist machine gunner so I had the privilege of humping a Browning water cooled over ten miles of jungle trails and…

— Jim Proser