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I used to be very fascinated by Victorian stuff, and my best-known books, the Mortal Engines series, have a sort of retro, Victorian vibe, despite being set in the far future. -- Philip Reeve
For seeing life is but a motion of Limbs... why may we not say, that all Automata (Engines that move themselves by springs and wheels as doth a watch) have an artificial life? -- Thomas Hobbes
I'm a part of a program called Toyota's Engines of Change Program. The message is that anyone can make a difference in their community or for whatever cause they feel strongly about. Everyone can be an Engine of Change. -- Aaron Peirsol
The business and design of the Royal Society is: To improve the knowledge of naturall things, and all useful Arts, Manufactures, Mechanic practices, Engines and Inventions by Experiments-(not meddling with Divinity, Metaphysics, Moralls, Politicks, Grammar, Rhetoric or Logick). -- Robert Hooke
The difference between "machines" and "engines" is obviously this, that machines need more workmen and greater power to make them take effect, as for instance ballistae and the beams of presses. Engines, on the other hand, accomplish their purpose at the intelligent touch of a single workman,... -- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
A carriage will start from Washington in the morning, the passengers will breakfast at Baltimore, dine at Philadelphia, and sup in New York the same day.... Engines will drive boats 10 or 12 miles an hour, and there will be hundreds of steamers running on the Mississippi, as predicted years ago. -- Oliver Evans
I build engines and attach wheels to them. -- Enzo Ferrari
Aerodynamics are for people who can't build engines. -- Enzo Ferrari
Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man. -- Richard Whately
Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip. -- Richard Steele
Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own. -- Edmund Burke
If I were to wish for two things, they would be as much bandwidth as possible and ridiculously fast browser engines. -- Matt Mullenweg
Political correctness is one of the engines of nannyism. Allowing and even encouraging 'offensive' ideas is vital for the intellectually health of a free society. -- David Harsanyi
Online advertising works, although it lands especially on search engines like Google and Yahoo. They achieve much higher revenues online than the websites of publishing companies. -- Hubert Burda
I strongly support the Bush Administration's clean diesel rules, which will reduce air pollution from diesel engines by more than 90 percent, and reduce the sulfur content of diesel fuel by more than 95 percent. -- Steve Buyer
Some say Google is God. Others say Google is Satan. But if they think Google is too powerful, remember that with search engines unlike other companies, all it takes is a single click to go to another search engine. -- Sergey Brin
From a very young age, I liked to take apart things. All of my Christmas gifts would wind up in a million pieces. I actually recall taking apart my dad's lawnmower three times to understand how combustible engines work. -- Homaro Cantu
Sometimes people wonder why aeroplanes are so cheap and rockets are so expensive. Even the most superficial comparison shows one obvious difference: aeroplane engines use outside air to burn their fuel, while rockets have to carry their own oxidisers along. -- Henry Spencer
For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power and storage capacity to the minicomputers of ten years earlier - Unix engines capable of supporting a full development environment and talking to the Internet. -- Eric S. Raymond
People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters. -- Bill Gates
Innovations in science and technology are the engines of the 21st-century economy; if you care about the wealth and health of your nation tomorrow, then you'd better rethink how you allocate taxes to fund science. The federal budget needs to recognize this. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Ever since the Industrial Revolution, investments in science and technology have proved to be reliable engines of economic growth. If homegrown interest in those fields is not regenerated soon, the comfortable lifestyle to which Americans have become accustomed will draw to a rapid close. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Open source is a beautiful way of collaborating; but what's happening on the free Internet is more akin to the 'crowdsourcing' of journalists and other content creators by advertisers who no longer have to pay them - only the search engines that parse their articles. -- Douglas Rushkoff
With Internet technology you can capture a photo, a quote, or an article, store it locally and upload it into the Net more than once, if you wish, to multiple sites. Can you imagine then forcing the search engines to somehow not index that information? -- Vint Cerf
Rhode Island works hard to reduce air pollution in our communities. We passed laws to prohibit cars and buses from idling their engines and to retrofit school buses with diesel pollution controls. But there is only so much a single state can do, particularly against out-of-state pollution. -- Sheldon Whitehouse
When the space shuttle's engines cut off, and you're finally in space, in orbit, weightless... I remember unstrapping from my seat, floating over to the window, and that's when I got my first view of Earth. Just a spectacular view, and a chance to see our planet as a planet. -- Sally Ride
I believe that one of the secret engines that allows cinema to work, and have the marvelous power over us that it does, is the fact that for thousands of years we have spent eight hours every night in a 'cinematic' dream-state, and so are familiar with this version of reality. -- Walter Murch
I emphasize teachers because they are largely left out of the debate. None of the bombastic reports that come from Washington and think tanks telling us what needs to be 'fixed' - I hate such a mechanistic word, as if our schools were automobile engines - ever asks the opinions of teachers. -- Jonathan Kozol
Governmental surveillance is not about the government collecting the information you're sharing publicly and willingly; it's about collecting the information you don't think you're sharing at all, such as the online searches you do on search engines... or private emails or text messages... or the location of your mobile phone at any time. -- Mikko Hypponen
What's important at the grocery store is just as important in engines or medical systems. If the customer isn't satisfied, if the stuff is getting stale, if the shelf isn't right, or if the offerings aren't right, it's the same thing. You manage it like a small organization. You don't get hung up on zeros. -- Jack Welch
Clearly, there are many places where diesel is king or gas-turbine is king, or IC engines will win, but there are many places in the world where, as we've seen, they just won't do the job. The modern version of the Stirling engine has some very, very attractive characteristics, and we're trying to optimize it for some of those applications. -- Dean Kamen
You know, this iPhone, as a matter of fact, the engine in here is made in America. And not only are the engines in here made in America, but engines are made in America and are exported. The glass on this phone is made in Kentucky. And so we've been working for years on doing more and more in the United States. -- Tim Cook
Gentlemen, start your engines! -- Tony Hulman
States are great engines moving slowly. -- Francis Bacon
States, as great engines, move slowly. -- Francis Bacon
Expectations are the engines of our perceptions. -- Seth
Brains are survival engines, not truth detectors. -- Peter Watts
You and I are streaming data engines. -- Jeff Hawkins
Not inmune to engines huh? BOO-Yah!! -Leo -- Rick Riordan
Turbos are people who can't build engines. -- Keith Duckworth
Turbochargers are for people who cant build engines. -- Keith Duckworth
Journalism is caring where the fire-engines are going. -- Jim Lehrer
Aerodynamics is for those who cannot manufacture good engines. -- Enzo Ferrari
Rust rust rust in the engines of love and time -- Leonard Cohen
Full emergency power to the engines. Ram the Blade ship. -- Katherine Applegate
Rocket engines generally are simpler than jet engines, not more complicated. -- Henry Spencer
For scientific researchers, charitable donations are enormous engines of new opportunities... -- Leroy Hood
Diesel engines do not emit enough carbon monoxide to kill anybody. -- Pat Buchanan
Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines. -- Steven Wright
Mathematics commands all my respect, but I have no use for engines. -- Joseph Conrad
When an airplane's engines fail, it is not the end of the flight. -- Bernhard Schlink
Chance explorations on search engines do not 'accidentally' lead users to extremist websites. -- Maajid Nawaz
Xander Harris: Hair. Red. Red is good. Fire engines are red. Porsche's are red. -- Christopher Golden
All military and most commercial aircraft use our designs that process power from jet engines. -- Amar Bose
All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of man's limbs and senses. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I think the search engines are the new equivalent of publishing: an enabler of information. -- James Dyson
Search engines generally treat personal names as search terms like any others: Data is data. -- Jonathan Zittrain
Businesses can be opaque. They are complex. You don't know how aircraft engines work either. -- Jamie Dimon
Everyone knows what search engines are. But relatively few know how to use them effectively. -- Marc Ostrofsky
Probably 90 percent of our life decisions are powered by the twin engines of inertia and laziness. -- A. J. Jacobs
The poor manufacture the engines of their own destruction, but it's the rich who sell them. -- Sebastian Japrisot
Wickedness frames the engines of her own torment. She is a wonderful artisan of a miserable life. -- Plutarch
Most copywriters are like engines. They take a while to warm up to get to the point. -- Drayton Bird
Memory has always been social. Now we're using search engines and computers to augment our memories, too. -- Clive Thompson
The switch from 'steam engines' to 'heat engines' signals the transition from engineering practice to theoretical science. -- Hans Christian von Baeyer
Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on schedule. The key is to keep working the engines. -- Gary Sinise
It's interesting that gay men and young women have been the twin engines of the Bettie [Page] cult. -- Mary Harron
The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. -- Mary Quant
Much of the lifeblood of blogs is search engines - more than half the traffic for most blogs. -- Matt Mullenweg
Before birds get sucked into jet engines, do they ever think, Is that Rod Stewart in first class? -- Eddie Izzard
I market for the same reason a pilot keeps his engines running once he is off the ground. -- William Wrigley, Jr.
SEO is knowing what the search engines want and giving it to them... so hard they f***ing bleed -- David Naylor
The novel, in its best form, I regard as one of the most powerful engines of civilization ever invented. -- John Herschel
I fix the human chassis, I tune up human engines, I recharge human batteries, and I adjust human transmissions. -- Bikram Choudhury
Oil replacements and then efficiencies in engines and housing and the way we build houses is a very interesting market. -- Vinod Khosla
I don'tsell cars; I sell engines. The cars I throw in for free since something has tohold the engines in. -- Enzo Ferrari
Many people bypass search engines altogether and still find what they're looking for online. These Internet surfers are using direct navigation. -- Marc Ostrofsky
Never stop feeling and seeing and being excited with great things like air and engines and sounds of sunlight within you. -- Richard Bach
If you think the last four words to the national anthem are " gentleman, start your engines", You might be a redneck. -- Jeff Foxworthy
Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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For as whipp'd tops and bandied balls,The learned hold, are animals;So horses they affirm to beMere engines made by geometry" -- Samuel Butler
In the future, search engines should be as useful as HAL in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey-but hopefully they won't kill people. -- Sergey Brin
As much as we sometimes roll our eyes at the ivory-tower isolation of universities, they continue to serve as remarkable engines of innovation. -- Steven Johnson
How much power is there in a thousand noisy engines? I tell you, there is more power in a single blade of grass. -- John Kremer
The frightful engines of ecclesiastical councils, of diabolical malice, and Calvinistical good-nature never failed to terrify me exceedingly whenever I thought of preaching. -- John Adams
I'm fascinated by steam engines and with Victorian engineering generally, and as a corollary to that, I'm fascinated by the idea of long-lived technologies. -- Alastair Reynolds
There's accountability in the mutual fund industry. And they've been tremendous engines of wealth for people and they're going to continue to be so. -- Jim Cramer
You can't move the sun, and you can't even move the tracks, so you have to do something else to better light the engines. -- O. Winston Link
I still need Marines who can shoot and salute. But I need Marines who can fix jet engines and man sophisticated radar sets, as well. -- Robert E. Cushman, Jr.
Political correctness is one of the engines of nannyism. Allowing and even encouraging offensive ideas is vital for the intellectually health of a free society. -- David Harsanyi
If the search engines don't respect the creators, there won't be anything to search in the future because creators have to make a living too. -- Patricia Schroeder
You looked at Stanford or Harvard, or the University of Colorado, these were powerful engines just turning out people ready to create and grow businesses. -- John Hickenlooper
To stop war by the perfection of engines of destruction alone, might consume centuries and centuries. Other means must be employed to hasten the end. -- Nikola Tesla
There are hundreds of electromagnetic cases where spacecraft have been observed by police, military personnel and civilians to affect car engines, radios and other electric devices. -- Steven M. Greer
I want to buy them, because historically these have been great engines of enrichment for the middle class, 'historically' meaning now for a good ten years. -- Jim Cramer
The city is like poetry; it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines. -- E. B. White
I'm such a girl because all the guys go for cars because of their engines or something like that. I like the colour and the design. -- Nathalie Kelley
The nature of search engines is that they can make a major issue out of something small that no person would otherwise be able to find. -- Max Mosley
I could imagine that boats sailing in harbors will only use electric engines. And then once they are out in the water they will use diesel. -- Henrik Fisker
Will a day come when our cars have carbon-fiber tubs, 18,000-rpm V-10 engines, and ground-effects tunnels? Perhaps, about the same time we have condos on the moon. -- Brock Yates
In the U.S., search engines are king. That is because everyone already knows what they are looking for. Brands have been around for a long time. -- Victor Koo
Google appears to be the worst of the major search engines from a privacy point of view; Ask.com, with AskEraser turned on, is among the best. -- Barton Gellman
Purpose is the ultimate fuel for our journey through life. When we drive with purpose we don't get tired or bored and our engines don't burn out. -- Jon Gordon
We never set up Yandex to imitate what others were doing. We've been in the business longer than other search engines and have created many original products. -- Arkady Volozh
I believe many Harley guys spend more time revving their engines than actually driving anywhere; I sometimes wonder why they bother to have wheels on their motorcycles. -- Dave Barry
I am not going to pretend that flying a spaceship will be as safe as getting in a 747 with four engines for a flight across the Atlantic. -- David Mackay
I like multinational companies. They may have 40 to 60 percent of their engines of growth in the United States, but I do like the diversification of being more global. -- Laurence D. Fink
Cities can become the engines that fuel our nation's growth and prosperity, and they can be wide gateways for families to achieve their own American dream of prosperity. -- Cory Booker
Our future is like that of the passengers on a small pleasure boat sailing quietly above the Niagara Falls, not knowing that the engines are about to fail. -- James Lovelock
Anything we need to know, we can learn it from a book. Reading, careful study, a little practice, and we're throwing knives expertly, overhauling engines, speaking Esperanto like natives. -- Richard Bach
We have a tremendous investment in facilities for (internal combustion engines, transmissions, and axles) and I can't see throwing them away just because the electric car doesn't emit fumes. -- Henry Ford II
Please relax," said the voice pleasantly, like a stewardess in an airliner with only one wing and two engines one of which is on fire, "you are perfectly safe. -- Douglas Adams
I will ignore all ideas for new works and engines of war, the invention of which has reached its limits and for whose improvement I see no further hope. -- Frontinus
Google or other search engines are examples of AI, and relatively simple AI, but they're still AI. That plus an awful lot of hardware to make it work fast enough. -- Stuart J. Russell
Everything has a trend to it; I don't care if it's appliances or engines. I always ask: What has a company done in the past five years that somebody's noticed? -- Millard Drexler
The government needs a role in carrying out exploration. They will be leading the development of the engines that are needed, and the private sector will take advantage of those. -- Buzz Aldrin
Fundamentally, we have broken our aerospace business into three parts - large parts which go into the wings and fuselage, components for jet engines, and specialised structural components for landing gear. -- Baba Kalyani
I guess the two things I was most interested in were telescopes and steam engines. My father was an engineer on a threshing rig steam engine and I loved the machinery. -- Clyde Tombaugh

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