Famous quotes containing the words engine and/or failed:
“The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is perfect, the engineer is nobody. Every new step in improving the engine restricts one more act of the engineer,—unteaches him.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.”
—Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866)