#engine

There are tumults of the mind, when, like the great convulsions of Nature, all seems anarchy and returning chaos; yet often, in those moments of vast disturbance, as in the strife of Nature itself, some new principle of order, or some new impulse of conduct, develops itself, and controls, and regulates, and brings to an harmonious consequence, passions and elements which seem only to threaten despair and subversion. ↗

— William Gibson

#the-difference-engine #thoughts #inspirational

The only thing that preoccupies me is that France has broken down, and we need to start up the engine again - all the way. But not so as to run into a wall. ↗

— Jean-Marc Ayrault

#broken #down #engine #france #into

Have you heard about the Irishman who reversed into a car boot sale and sold the engine? ↗

— Frank Carson

#boot #car #engine #heard #into

When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man. ↗

— Herbert Hoover

#common man #construction #doctor #engineer #general

For a long time I thought I should be a civil engineer. That seemed to be the only thing worth doing, and I chose the wrong subjects at A-level. I read all the sciences to start with, and then had to admit, 'This isn't what I want to do' and changed course. ↗

— Ian Hislop

#changed #chose #civil #course #doing

I think that the most beautiful thing lately hasn't been in hardware or software per se but collaboration - the idea behind Napster, which uses the distributed power of the Internet as its engine. ↗

— Steven Levy

#beautiful thing #been #behind #collaboration #distributed

The engineering is secondary to the vision. ↗

— Cynthia Ozick

#secondary #vision

My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918. ↗

— James Rainwater

#civil #died #engineer #epidemic #father

You see, my ambition was not to confound the engineering world but simply to create a beautiful piece of art. ↗

— Kit Williams

#art #beautiful #confound #create #engineering

Fuel cell vehicles run on clean-burning hydrogen and are three times more efficient than the traditional combustible engine. ↗