"Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort" Helen Gurley Brown

"Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car" E. B. White

"Blessed shall be the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep" The Bible, Deuteronomy 28:4

"You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bon-fire under her deck? I have no time for such nonsense" Napoleon, on Robert Fulton's Steamship

"Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window" Steve Wozniak

"Blast - Build - Battle" Motto of the U.S. 16th Engineer Brigade

"Chemistry is the dirty part of physics" Peter Reiss

"Let's get on our knees and pray. I don't know to whom. Is there a patron saint of ballistics yet?" Adam Savage

"The day when two army corps can annihilate each other in one second, all civilized nations, it is to be hoped, will recoil from war and discharge their troops" Alfred Nobel

"It's not the towering sails, but the unseen wind that moves a ship" English Proverb

"If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One... I am become Death, the Shatterer of Worlds" J. Robert Oppenheimer, quoting "The Bhagavad Gita"

"Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God" Cicero

"And first Hephaestus makes a great and massive shield... And he forged on the shield two noble cities" Homer

"The nations of the West hope that by means of steam communications all the world will become as one family" Townsend Harris

"The whole is greater than the sum of its parts" Aristotle

"Not all who wander are lost" J.R.R. Tolkien

"For a machine to run smoothly and predictably, its parts must be standard and hence replaceable" Charles Eisenstein

"If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge in mathematics" Roger Bacon

"It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls" Aristophanes

"The whole is greater than the sum of its parts" Aristotle

"A man does not have himself killed for a half-pence a day or for a petty distinction. You must speak to the soul in order to electrify him" Napoleon Bonaparte

"Vision is the art of seeing things invisible" Jonathan Swift

"I have always considered that the substitution of the internal combustion engine for the horse marked a very gloomy milestone in the progress of mankind" Winston Churchill

"The wisest men follow their own direction" Euripides

"Nothing on this earth lasts forever. Except maybe plastic" Patricia Dunn

"The wisest men follow their own direction" Euripides

"Oh farmers, pray that your summers be wet and your winters clear" Virgil

"The speed of communication is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue" Edward R. Murrow

"Put your shoulder to the wheel" Aesop

"Writing means sharing. It's part of the human condition to want to share things - thoughts, ideas, opinions" Paulo Coelho

"Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it" Publius Syrus

"The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl" Dave Barry

"You should hammer your iron when it is glowing hot" Publius Syrus

"People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public" Adam Smith

"We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master" Ernest Hemingway

"Even though the future seems far away, it is actually beginning right now" Mattie Stepanek

"The best steel doesn't always shine the brightest" Joe Abercrombie

"Who deserves more credit than the wife of a coal miner?" Merle Travis

"No one starts a war - or rather, no one in his senses ought to do so - without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by that war and how he intends to conduct it" Karl von Clausewitz

"The real problem is not whether machines think, but whether men do" B. F. Skinner

"To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction" Isaac Newton

"The more science intervenes in warfare, the more will be the need for engineers in the field armies; in the late war there were never enough sappers at any time" Bernard Montgomery

"Leave the atom alone" E. Y. Harburg

"Compound interest is the most powerful force in the universe" Albert Einstein

"Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star" W. Clement Stone

"I love watching my mom argue with the GPS on the way home" Isabelle Fuhrman

"Rocks in my path? I keep them all. With them I shall build my castle" Nemo Nox

"The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and social being" Thomas Jefferson

"Here Hector entered, with a spear eleven cubits long in his hand; the bronze point gleamed in front of him, and was fastened to the shaft of the spear by a ring of gold" Homer

"There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic" Lily Tomlin