#engine

I don't know technology and engineering. I don't know accounting. ↗

— Bernard Ebbers

#engineering #i #know #technology

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine. ↗

— Elvis Presley

#dream #engine

I started out in engineering. I was a geophysical engineer. Throughout the course of my life I've done a lot of strange jobs, and the effect has been to make me think a little more skeptically about our capitalist society. ↗

— George Saunders

#been #capitalist #capitalist society #course #done

The engineer, and more generally the designer, is concerned with how things ought to be - how they ought to be in order to attain goals, and to function. ↗

— Herbert Simon

#concerned #designer #engineer #function #generally

Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip. ↗

— Richard Steele

#destruction #engines #fire #gossip #slow

Most of the work performed by a development engineer results in failure. ↗

— Koichi Tanaka

#engineer #failure #most #performed #results

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

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

— Marshall McLuhan

#everybody #except #first #immortality #mistaken