Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Peters

A fire engine from the 1940s wouldn't have the same pump power. The tank wouldn't hold as much water. It wouldn't provide as much safety for firefighters as new equipment does.

Sylvia Hatchell

She's the engine that makes our offense go.

John Milton

But that two-handed engine at the door, / Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.

Stefan Bielmeier

I wouldn't go as far as to say Germany is the reform engine of Europe, but it is making slow progress.

Herbert Hoover

Engineering is a great profession.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

To strive consciously for an object and to engage in engineering -- that is, incessantly and eternally to make new roads, wherever they may lead.

Jim Press

There was a time when having a big, giant engine was sort of in, ... everything is sort of pointing to the fact that if you want a good image, it's better to be efficient.

Reggie Brown

We're not totally clueless. We've seen this train coming. We've tried every alternative and put every engine on the track, but none of them run.

Bill Yearwood

We know that the engine had been overhauled recently and installed just late November.

Matt Rosoff

MSN may want to sell search to AOL.

Ben Marcus

Spelling is a way to make words safe, at least for now, until another technology appears to soften attacks launched from the mouth.

Al Gore

Our new technologies, combined with our numbers, have made us, collectively, a force of nature

Ginni Rometty

And so when I moved to IBM, I moved because I thought I could apply technology. I didn't actually have to do my engineer - I was an electrical engineer, but I could apply it. And that was when I changed. And when I got there, though, I have to say, at the time, I really never felt there was a constraint about being a woman. I really did not.

Steve Jobs

Technology alone is not enough.

George Bernard Shaw

Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not gone beyond a limited technology of perdition.

J. G. Ballard

It was an excess of fantasy that killed the old United States, the whole Mickey Mouse and Marilyn thing, the most brilliant technologies devoted to trivia like instant cameras and space spectaculars that should have stayed in the pages of Science Fiction . . . some of the last Presidents of the U.S.A. seemed to have been recruited straight from Disneyland.

Issey Miyake

Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand.

Jaron Lanier

We have repeatedly demonstrated our species's bottomless ability to lower our standards to make information technology look good.

Chris Mooney

One of the reasons the United States has actually been reducing its emissions in recent years is actually that there's been a boom in natural gas. It's displacing coal. It emits less carbon dioxide when you burn it. This is not really an Obama policy. It's just something that happened because of technology and the free market.