#engine

So I went for engineering, specifically product design, which I enjoyed. ↗

— Debi Thomas

#engineering #enjoyed #i #product #specifically

And I like messing around in the engine room of music. Seeing what happens in the rhythm section area. ↗

— Bill Bruford

#around #engine #happens #i #like

My latter schooldays and my university days were during the war, when science - physics, in particular - was a very important and glamorous subject. A lot of us felt that if we couldn't get into science, we might try engineering or medicine. ↗

— John Henry Carver

#during #engineering #felt #get #glamorous

A ship's engine far away on the water expands the summer-night horizon. Both joy and sorrow swell in the dew's magnifying glass. Without really knowing, we divine; our life has a sister ship, following quietly another route. While the sun blazes behind the islands. ↗

— Tomas Transtromer

#away #behind #blazes #both #dew

Most people are really stunned to find out that the technology has been around for more than 100 years, and that the diesel engine was in fact invented to run on vegetable oil. ↗

— Daryl Hannah

#around #been #diesel #engine #fact

The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large. ↗

— Tim Berners-Lee

#between #both #engineering #large #now

The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#everybody #except #first #immortality #mistaken

...every new genetically engineered plant is a unique event in nature, bringing its own set of genetic contingencies. This means that the reliability or safety of one genetically modified plant doesn't necessarily guarantee the reliability or safety of the next. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#nature

If I were king, I would redress an abuse which cuts back, as it were, one half of human kind. I would have women participate in all human rights, especially those of the mind. ↗

— Émilie Du Châtelet

#engineering #math #passonate-minds #rights #science

The fewer moving parts, the better." "Exactly. No truer words were ever spoken in the context of engineering. ↗

— Christian Cantrell

#funny #humor #mechanical #funny