#engine

I'd rather have a search engine or a compiler on a deserted island than a game. ↗

— John Carmack

#deserted #engine #game #i #island

The automobile engine will come, and then I will consider my life's work complete. ↗

— Rudolf Diesel

#automobile #come #complete #consider #engine

Whenever something is engineered as complex, it is designed to keep you simple. ↗

— Richard Diaz

#design #engineered #simple #design

I was happy in the dream; but when I woke up it was with a feeling that I was falling apart, that I was cracking up from the inside and slowly falling to pieces. My heart was jumping and grating like a cold engine that doesn't want to start. My skin was crawling, and I couldn't manage a single clear thought. It was as if all my thoughts were crushed to bits just as they began to take shape. I didn't get much done that day. ↗

— Ninni Holmqvist

#dream #engine #heart #waking #dreams

We dream of it, then we try to write it - and all hell breaks loose ↗

— Scott Rosenberd

#dreams

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

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

— Robert A. Heinlein

#magic #supernatural

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

— Sean Booth

#being #being beautiful #engineering #i #idea