Engineering Quotes - Page 15

• If you're running an engineering or finance company, all companies depend on ideas and ingenuity. I think the principles of creative leadership apply everywhere, whether it's an advertising company or whether you're running a hospital.

  Ken Robinson

  Running, Thinking, Ideas

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• I think of modern marriage as a car strangely fashioned out of an old abandoned horse carriage, built upon the framework of a mule cart. All the original engineering is still there, underneath it all.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Horse, Thinking, Car

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• I loved history in my school days, and I have always been a voracious reader. But in India, you end up doing MBA, engineering or medicine.

  Amish Tripathi

  School, Mba, Medicine

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• Building on our successful partnership, we can now bring together the best of Microsoft's software engineering with the best of Nokia's product engineering, award-winning design, and global sales, marketing and manufacturing.

  Stephen Elop

  Successful, Winning, Awards

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• If you start from a belief that the most knowledgeable person on earth does not have even one percent of the total knowledge on earth, that shoots down social engineering, economic central planning, judicial activism, and innumerable other ambitious notions favored by the political left.

  Thomas Sowell

  Knowledgeable Person, Political, Ambitious

  "Don't Be So Sure". www.nationalreview.com. May 16, 2007.

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• The switch from 'steam engines' to 'heat engines' signals the transition from engineering practice to theoretical science.

  Hans Christian von Baeyer

  Practice, Transition, Heat

  Hans Christian Von Baeyer (2004). “Information: The New Language of Science”, p.154, Harvard University Press

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• The greatest engineering is the engineering of men.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Science, Men

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• The aim of human rights, if I may borrow a term from engineering, is to move beyond the design and drawing-board phase, to move beyond thinking and talking about the foundations stones - to laying those foundation stones, inch by inch, together.

  Mary Robinson

  Moving, Thinking, Rights

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• Biotech and geo engineering have the same mindset, of engineering, of power, of control, of mastery of nature.

  Vandana Shiva

  Mastery, Mindset, Biotech

  Source: www.nogeoingegneria.com

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• It would be through individual effort, inspired perhaps by reading Nietzsche's books, that the Overman might emerge, not through social or educational engineering.

  David E. Cooper

  Educational, Book, Reading

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Trade has always existed, but we used to defend our strategic interests. Could you imagine the United States allowing French engineering giant Alstom to purchase General Electric? I don't think so.

  Marine Le Pen

  Thinking, United States, Giants

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• The environmental crisis has deep spiritual, philosophical, and religious roots and causes. It is not merely the result of bad engineering.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Spiritual, Religious, Philosophical

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• I've always wanted my work to be more available. I had this vision when I was younger of wanting to replace all of the bad jewelry in mom and pop jewelry stores with good designs. [I wanted to offer] a range of crazy, experimental one-of-a-kind pieces that would have integrity and be made of great construction as well as interesting engineering.

  Robert Lee Morris

  Mom, Integrity, Crazy

  Source: www.elle.com

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• The social and physical construction of suburban America really was quite complex. It was a very elaborate system, and clearly a massive social engineering project that has changed U.S. society enormously.

  Noam Chomsky

  America, Construction, Social

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• I am so old, I entered engineering school with a slide rule. And I left engineering school with a calculator. I can still use a slide rule but it's not a skill you especially need anymore.

  Bill Nye

  School, Skills, Needs

  "Bill Nye: Cell phones aren't making us dumb". Interview with Wilson Rothman, www.nbcnews.com. March 23, 2010.

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• The dollar is the final term in almost every equation which arises in the practice of engineering in any or all of its branches, except qualifiedly as to military and naval engineering, where in some cases cost may be ignored.

  Henry R. Towne

  Military, Practice, Dollars

  "Industrial Engineering". An Address Delivered at the Purdue University, February 24, 1905.

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• The so-called ‘crank’ may be quite original in his ideas. … Invention, however, in the engineering sense involves originality; but not that alone, if the results are to be of value. There is imagination more or less fertile, but with it a knowledge of what has been done before, carried perhaps by the memory, together with a sense of the present or prospective needs in art or industry. Necessity is not always the mother of invention. It may be prevision.

  Elihu Thomson

  Mother, Art, Memories

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• Skype has a great engineering team, which I like to describe as 'all of Estonia.'

  Marc Andreessen

  Team, Estonia, Skype

  "'Grandpa' Andreessen Says We Live in Dang Exciting Times". "All Things D" interview, allthingsd.com. June 1, 2011.

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• I didnt know what architecture was except that I lived in a house. I dont even think that I knew the word for a long time. My dad funneled me into engineering because it was his background.

  Antoine Predock

  Dad, Thinking, Long

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• Too many companies believe that all they must do is provide a 'neat' technology or some 'cool' product or, sometimes, just good, solid engineering. Nope. All of those are desirable (and solid engineering is a must), but there is much more to a successful product than that: understanding how the product is to be used, design, engineering, positioning, marketing, branding-all matter. It requires designing the Total User Experience.

  Donald A. Norman

  Believe, Successful, Technology

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• Any person or organization depends ultimately on public approval, and is therefore faced with the problem of engineering the public's consent to a program or goal.

  Edward Bernays

  Organization, Goal, Approval

  Edward L. Bernays (2013). “Public Relations”, p.159, University of Oklahoma Press

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• When I became the NASA administrator — or before I became the NASA administrator — Barack Obama charged me with three things. One was he wanted me to help re-inspire children to want to get into science and math, he wanted me to expand our international relationships, and third, and perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science … and math and engineering.

  Charles Bolden

  Children, Math, Feel Good

  "Does the 'S' In NASA Suddenly Stand for 'Stupid'?" by Dan Gainor, www.foxnews.com. July 07, 2010.

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• Audiophiles don't use their equipment to listen to your music. Audiophiles use your music to listen to their equipment.

  Alan Parsons

  Use, Audio, Equipment

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• Engineering is too important to wait for science.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Waiting, Important

  "Fractal Finance". Yale Economic Review, 2005.

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• Everybody should be ashamed who uses the wonders of science and engineering without thinking and having mentally realized not more of it than a cow realizes of the botany of the plants which it eats with pleasure.

  Albert Einstein

  Thinking, Use, Cows

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