The belly is the teacher of the arts and bestower of invention.

The mere existence of nuclear weapons by the thousands is an incontrovertible sign of human insanity.

When poets don’t know what to say and have completely given up on the play, just like a finger, they lift the machine and the spectators are satisfied.

Doing research on the web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.

’Tis the sport to have the engineer / Hoist with his own petard.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

I have seen the science I worshipped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.

The art of invention grows young with the things invented.

Civilization, a much-abused word, stands for a high matter quite apart from telephones and electric lights.

Most people who sneer at technology would starve to death if the engineering infrastructure were removed.

When man wanted to make a machine that would walk, he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg.