"The Difference Engine" Quotes
In an alternate Victorian era, two men become embroiled in a conspiracy involving a powerful computing machine.
steampunk | 429 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
The old London Bridge was sold to an American and is now in Arizona.
The future, sir, is a black tunnel from which no man can escape.
The city's air was thick with smoke and the stink of coal tar.
I think we're all suffering from a surfeit of poetry.
In this place, the past is not dead, it is not even past.
The difference engine must stand at the center of the world.
The engine has no politics, it could be a force for stability or for chaos.
It's a time of transition, a time of great social change.
In the future, everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.
I was not a believer in the old Calvinist deity, but I believed in steam.
