A machine is a slave that neither brings nor bears degradation.

Whenever there is excess, an ax remedies it.

The real problem of humanity is the following: we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology.

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

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

Great inventors and discoverers seem to have made their discoveries and inventions, as it were, by the way, in the course of their everyday life.

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

Inventor, n. A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers, and springs and believes it civilization.

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

I’d like to be a machine, wouldn’t you?

We want a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of engineers.

Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.

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