Engine Failure

Famous quotes containing the words engine and/or failure:

    Industrial man—a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.
    Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)

    Insurrection. An unsuccessful revolution; disaffection’s failure to substitute misrule for bad government.
    Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)