Engineering Quotes - Page 14

• I believe in the unlimited power of women in the context of science and engineering.

  Elizabeth Holmes

  Believe, Unlimited, I Believe

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• Let's not be optimistic in the irreversibly irresponsible way that tends to happen with the crazies of geo-engineering. But let's talk about what sorts of changes we can make.

  Jonathon Keats

  Optimistic, Way, Irresponsible

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I've had training in electronics engineering, of all things, and in languages. But I've never taken any degree, something I share with Lewis Mumford, I think.

  Murray Bookchin

  Taken, Thinking, Training

  Interview with Jeff Riggenbach, reason.com. October 1979.

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• The role of geo-engineering should, in a world of responsibility, in a world of scientifically enlightened decision making and ecological understanding, it should be zero. There is no role for geo-engeneering. Because what is geoengineering but extending the engineering paradigm?

  Vandana Shiva

  Zero, Responsibility, Decision

  Source: www.nogeoingegneria.com

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• We can achieve the utmost in economies by engineering knowledge; we can conquer new fields by research; we can build plants and machines that shall stand among the wonders of the world; but unless we put the right man in the right place-unless we make it possible for our workers and executives alike to enjoy a sense of satisfaction in their jobs, our efforts will have been in vain.

  Edward Stettinius, Jr.

  Jobs, Men, Effort

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• As a guide to engineering ethics, I should like to commend to you a liberal adaptation of the injunction contained in the oath of Hippocrates that the professional man do nothing that will harm his client.

  Hyman Rickover

  Men, Clients, Ethics

  "The Rickover Effect". Book by Theodore Rockwell, 1992.

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• There is no one "root of all evil" in software development. Design is hard in many ways. People tend to underestimate the intellectual and practical difficulties involved in building a significant system involving software. It is not and will not be reduced to a simple mechanical "assembly line" process. Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.

  Bjarne Stroustrup

  Creativity, Simple, Roots

  "Masterminds of Programming Conversations with the Creators of Major Programming Languages". Book by Shane Warden, Federico Biancuzzi, March 2009.

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• What's nice about having an engineering degree is everybody thinks you are smart.

  Ato Essandoh

  Nice, Smart, Thinking

  "'Copper's' Ato Essandoh: 'I Look at Doctor Who'". Interview with Jacqueline Cutler, screenertv.com. June 30, 2013.

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• Mea culpa, mea culpa. MIT and Wharton and University of Chicago created the financial engineering instruments, which, like Samson and Delilah, blinded every CEO. They didn't realize the kind of leverage they were doing and they didn't understand when they were really creating a real profit or a fictitious one.

  Paul Samuelson

  Real, Creating, Chicago

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• It's true that to speak of an ethic of giftedness, which is very much the ethic that I deploy in raising questions about designer children and genetic engineering - an appreciation of the giftedness of the child or the giftedness of life does have religious resonance, because a great many religious traditions emphasize the sense in which the good things in life are not all our own doing; they are gifts from God.

  Michael Sandel

  Religious, Appreciation, Children

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I am trying to get at the moral arguments and the ethical status of various attempts at enhancement, or genetic engineering, or the bid for designer children. But there are implications for society at large.

  Michael Sandel

  Children, Trying, Enhancement

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Engineering, like poetry, is an attempt to approach perfection. And engineers, like poets, are seldom completely satisfied with their creations. They notice, even if no one else does, the world that is not quite le mot juste, or the hairline crack that blemishes the structure.

  Henry Petroski

  Perfection, Doe, Cracks

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• The future is better than the past. Despite the crepe hangers, romanticists, and anti-intellectuals, the world steadily grows better because the human mind, applying itself to environment, makes it better. With hands ... with tools ... with horse sense and science and engineering.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Horse, Past, Hands

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• Engineering is not a science. Science studies particular events to find general laws. Engineering design makes use of the laws to solve particular practical problems. In this it is more closely related to art or craft.

  Ove Arup

  Art, Law, Design

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• I do think it is very important that the religious communities do try to bring their teachings and their insights to bear on the stem cell debate and on the debate about genetic engineering.

  Michael Sandel

  Religious, Teaching, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The other dynamic keeping the stock market up - both for technology stocks and others - is that companies are using a lot of their income for stock buybacks and to pay out higher dividends, not make new investment,. So to the extent that companies use financial engineering rather than industrial engineering to increase the price of their stock you're going to have a bubble. But it's not considered a bubble, because the government is behind it, and it hasn't burst yet.

  Michael Hudson

  Technology, Government, Income

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The underlying strategy of the Fed is to tell people, "Do you want your money to lose value in the bank, or do you want to put it in the stock market?" They're trying to push money into the stock market, into hedge funds, to temporarily bid up prices. Then, all of a sudden, the Fed can raise interest rates, let the stock market prices collapse and the people will lose even more in the stock market than they would have by the negative interest rates in the bank. So it's a pro-Wall Street financial engineering gimmick.

  Michael Hudson

  Wall, People, Trying

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I have always made a point in my romances of basing my so-called inventions upon a groundwork of actual fact, and of using in their construction methods and materials which are not entirely without the pale of contemporary engineering skill and knowledge.

  Jules Verne

  Skills, Romance, Facts

  Jules Verne (2013). “Invasion of the Sea”, p.209, Wesleyan University Press

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• The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the 'engineering of consent' by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.

  Noam Chomsky

  Attitude, Perception, Opinion

  Noam Chomsky (2016). “Who Rules the World?”, p.83, Metropolitan Books

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• The idea of engineering is an idea of mastery. And today the role that we are being asked to play is a role based on informed humanity.

  Vandana Shiva

  Play, Ideas, Humanity

  Source: www.nogeoingegneria.com

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• To strive consciously for an object and to engage in engineering -- that is, incessantly and eternally to make new roads, wherever they may lead.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  May, Strive, New Roads

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• Movies are a powerful medium. People think you are your character. I've had plenty of people who think I'm Drago. They don't know about the chemical engineering part of my personality. They don't know about the geek part of my personality.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Powerful, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.menshealth.com

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• Environmental spending creates jobs in engineering, manufacturing, construction, materials, operations and maintenance.

  Keith Ellison

  Jobs, Environmental, Maintenance

  "Spearing Sacred Cows" by Rep. Keith Ellison, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 15, 2011.

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• We have grown accustomed to the wonders of clean water, indoor plumbing, laser surgery, genetic engineering, artificial joints, replacement body parts, and the much longer lives that accompany them. Yet we should remember that the vast majority of humans ever born died before the age of 10 from an infectious disease.

  S. Jay Olshansky

  Water, Age, Joints

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• College football is no more of a minor league than, say, the universities' schools of journalism, engineering or music are. We can argue at another time whether football should occupy the same space on campus as those disciplines, but for now, it does. The critical point is that a coach is less concerned with preparing athletes for the next level than he is with molding them to fit a system that helps him win games, keep his job and, eventually, move on to a position with a more prestigious program.

  William C. Rhoden

  Football, Jobs, Moving

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