Better a poor steam engine that runs, than a good one never finished.
Freedom of the press is to the machinery of the state what the safety valve is to the steam engine.
Private capitalism makes a steam engine; State capitalism makes pyramids.
The Internet, like the steam engine, is a technological breakthrough that changed the world.
Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph.
Science owes more to the steam engine than the steam engine owes to science.