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

The civilized man has built a coach but has lost the use of his feet.

Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.

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.

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

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

Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.