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Your Quotes for 19 January 2006 - Steam and Steel

Steam and Steel? The theme comes from the coincidence that two brilliant British engineers were born on this day: James Watt was born at Greenock, Scotland in 1736 and Sir Henry Bessemer at Charlton, Hertfordshire, England in 1813. Watt invented the steam engine and Bessemer invented the open hearth furnace for making steel, both critical to the Industrial Revolution. As it happens, the progress they spurred has left their own inventions in the dust of history.

Yet after brick and steel and stone are gone, and flesh and blood are dust, the dream lives on.
     - Anderson H. Scruggs

The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car... a teaspoon instead of a steam shovel. They expect little and as a result they get little.
     - Ben Sweetland

Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity. Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities.
     - L. Frank Baum

Temper is a quality that at a critical moment brings out the best in steel and the worst in people.
     - William P. Grohse

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
     - Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803 - 1882

Once a new technology rolls over you, if your're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.
     - Stewart Brand

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