#engine

Find the fountain of fuel of life! When you do, then right next to it... you'll see the best engine ever existed. ↗

— Toba Beta

#living-engine #life

You must live a very free life." "Me?" she laughed. "I am not who swoops out of the sky to rain fire on pirates!" "Yeah, but before this I never did much. I mean I did a lot, but...I lived in a room at a university, and my whole world was in that little room. There was this world inside my head." De la Fitte studied his head as if she could see through his skull to a little globe inside it somewhere. ↗

— Sam Starbuck

#america #engineer #fire #london #pirates

Yet through their endeavor, men would glimpse the unimaginable artistry of Yahweh's work, in seeing how ingeniously the world had been constructed. By this construction, Yahweh's work was indicated, and Yahweh's work was concealed. ↗

— Ted Chiang

#knowledge #spirituality #tower-of-babylon #men

The problem in this business isn’t to keep people from stealing your ideas; it's making them steal your ideas! ↗

— Howard Aiken

#ideas #research #science #business

Anything which is physically possible can always be made financially possible; money is a bugaboo of small minds. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#money #motivation #money

It is interesting to wonder whether taxonomists of the future may regret the way our generation messed around with genomes. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#science #science

One man’s “magic” is another man’s engineering. “Supernatural” is a null word. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#magic #supernatural

In this world . . . It's Heaven when: The French are chefs The British are police The Germans are engineers The Swiss are bankers And the Italians are lovers It's Hell when: The English are chefs The Germans are police The French are engineers The Swiss are lovers And the Italians are bankers. ↗

— Hidekaz Himaruya

#chefs #engineers #heaven #hell #hetalia

I'm quite into the idea of engineering being beautiful. ↗

— Sean Booth

#being #being beautiful #engineering #i #idea

Again, with two small children it's incredibly hard to commit yourself to anything because you're just getting interested in it and someone comes along and goes I want Thomas The Tank Engine on, and screams the place down until you put it on. ↗

— Jo Brand

#along #anything #because #children #comes