Civil Engineer Quotes - Page 2

• George Washington was quite a farmer. He was a farmer, Civil Engineer and gentleman. He made enough at civil engineering to indulge in both the other luxuries.

  Will Rogers

  Engineering, Indulge In, Luxury

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• No greater care is required upon any works than upon such as are to withstand the action of water; for this reason, all parts of the work need to be done exactly according to the rules of the art which all workmen know, but few observe.

  Frontinus

  Art, Water, Needs

  Sextus Julius Frontinus (1913). “The two books on the water supply of the city of Rome”

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• If car manufacturers made cars according to spec the same way software vendors make software according to spec, all five wheels would be of widely differing sizes, it would take one person to steer and another to work the pedals and yet another to operate the user-friendly menu-driven dashboard, and if it would not drive straight ahead without a lot of effort, civil engineers would respond by building spiraling roads around each city.

  Erik Naggum

  Cities, Car, Effort

  "What obstacles do Common Lisp programmers face?". Usenet discussion groups, groups.google.com. January 12, 2002.

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• Civil Engineering is the art of directing the great sources of Power in Nature for the use and convenience of man; being that practical application of the most important principles of natural Philosophy which has in a considerable degree realized the anticipations of Bacon, and changed the aspect and state of affairs in the whole world. The most important object of Civil Engineering is to improve the means of production and of traffic in states, both for external and internal Trade.

  Thomas Tredgold

  Art, Philosophy, Mean

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• The I-95 bridges were built in the early 1960s and are now more than 50 years old. The same vintage as the I-35 bridge that collapsed in Minnesota back in 2007, killing 13 people and injuring 145. The antiquated Skagit River Bridge in Washington state that collapsed last May after a truck hit one of the trusses was even older. And it's not just bridges. According to the American Society of Civil Engineers, 32 percent of the major roads in America are now in poor condition and in need of major repairs.

  Ed Rendell

  America, Years, Vintage

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• To define it rudely but not inaptly, engineering is the art of doing that well with one dollar which any bungler can do with two after a fashion.

  Arthur M. Wellington

  Fashion, Art, Science

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• If the Commission is to enquire into the conditions "to be observed," it is to be presumed that they will give the result of their enquiries; or, in other words, that they will lay down, or at least suggest, "rules" and "conditions to be (hereafter) observed" in the construction of bridges, or, in other words, embarrass and shackle the progress of improvement to-morrow by recording and registering as law the prejudices or errors of to-day. [Objecting to any interference by the State with the freedom of civil engineers in the conduct of their professional work.]

  Isambard Kingdom Brunel

  Errors, Law, Bridges

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• I pushed the process forward by saying, 'We should do this, this, and this right now. Please find the budget for me to find a structural engineer, a mechanical engineer, a civil engineer, so we can do the preliminary work.

  Michael Arad

  Process, Should, Please

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• To the engineer falls the job of clothing the bare bones of science with life, comfort, and hope.

  Herbert Hoover

  Jobs, Fall, Science

  Herbert Hoover (1952). “Memoirs: Years of adventure, 1874-1920”

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• Our infrastructure of bridges, roads and ports has been given a D-level rating by many civil engineer societies. The government should shift some money from the Defense budget and hire companies to fix our infrastructure. As for non-construction workers, we need to do job retraining in those growing areas where more skilled workers will be needed.

  Philip Kotler

  Jobs, Bridges, Construction Workers

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Therefore, O students, study mathematics and do not build without foundations.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Science, Engineering, Foundation

  Leonardo Da Vinci (1938). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”

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• I am opposed to the laying down of rules or conditions to be observed in the construction of bridges lest the progress of improvement tomorrow might be embarrassed or shackled by recording or registering as law the prejudices or errors of today.

  Isambard Kingdom Brunel

  Science, Errors, Engineering

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• I would say the most help I got was from my dad. My dad is a civil engineer in Switzerland; he's 90 years old now, so he's no longer active as a civil engineer, but still a very active person.

  Claude Nicollier

  Dad, Years, Switzerland

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• When engineers and quantity surveyors discuss aesthetics and architects study what cranes do we are on the right road.

  Ove Arup

  Study, Architect, Cranes

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• To confine soldiers to purely military functions while urgent and vital tasks have to be done, and nobody else is available to undertake them, would be senseless. The soldier must then be prepared to become a propagandist, a social worker, a civil engineer, a schoolteacher, a nurse, a boy scout. But only for as long as he cannot be replaced, for it is better to entrust civilian tasks to civilians.

  David Galula

  Military, Boys, Nurse

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