Automobile Quote by Simon Schama

And an apprenticeship to whatever gadgetry is useful in a technical world

— Jacques Ellul

Ive been an engineer, barman, skip lorry driver, coalman, boat window manufacturer, contract grass cutter and builder.

— Neal Asher

I've been an engineer, barman, skip lorry driver, coalman, boat window manufacturer, contract grass cutter and builder.

— Neal Asher

What I wanted to do was build an automobile.

— Carroll Shelby

I tried being a mechanic and I tried catering, but I realized I had even less aptitude for semi-skilled labour than for academic work.

— Toby Young

I customise and build motorbikes and I can fix them myself.

— Charley Boorman

I also became interested in chemistry and gradually accumulated enough test tubes and other glassware to do chemical experiments, using small quantities of chemicals…

— Sydney Brenner

I like to experiment a lot and invent things.

— Kathy Ireland

I'm always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven't thought of doing yet.

— Brian Eno

Don't ask me about my career - I've forgotten most of it.

— Timothy Dalton

I'm fascinated by steam engines and with Victorian engineering generally, and as a corollary to that, I'm fascinated by the idea of long-lived technologies.

— Alastair Reynolds

Anything that has a creative element attached to it - I will take it up, similar to my career choices.

— Nandita Mahtani