Actual Quote by Paul Di Filippo

“Steampunk is Victorian science fiction”

— G.D. Falksen

Steampunk, the repurposing of Victorian culture and technology for contemporary fun and profit, is so ubiquitous - in media, books, fashion, music, cosplay, and…

— Paul Di Filippo

For every reader and writer of steampunk fiction, there are probably hundreds or thousands of other activists who gleefully embrace some non-written manifestation of…

— Paul Di Filippo

“It's Halloween, you can tell everyone you're going as your favorite Steampunck character." "I don't even know what that is!" "Because your generation has…

— Girl vs Monster

There was a whole sequence of concept art about a 'Fable' set in a kind of steampunk Victoriana age.

— Peter Molyneux

Steampunk is...the love child of Hot Topic and a BBC costume drama

— Gail Carriger

“No new technology, during the thousand years between gunpowder and the steam engine, was as disruptive as the printing press,”

— Kurt Andersen

There are many points in the history of an invention which the inventor himself is apt to overlook as trifling, but in which posterity…

— David Brewster

“No new technology, during the thousand years between gunpowder and the steam engine, was as disruptive as the printing press, and Protestantism was its…

— Kurt Andersen

In [my] life ... I did not understand steam machinery, but I tried to understand that much more complicated piece of mechanism - man.

— Andrew Carnegie

“The emergence of the steam engine and its entire subsequent development was driven by market needs. The original need was to pump water out…

— Edward A. Hudson

Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph.

— George Bernard Shaw