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• I never believed 9/11, because I had engineering training at GA Tech, and I could tell when a building is being blown up by explosives. Any fool can look at those films and see the buildings aren't falling down, they're blowing up.

  Paul Craig Roberts

  Fall, Training, Fool

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• Engineers do engineering, i.e. they build bridges. So engineering needs engineers. The economy does NOT need economists. Economists do not make economy, but they try it and that is why we have so much problems with some financial models.

  Steve Keen

  Bridges, Trying, Doe

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• Genetic engineering has never been about saving the world, it's about controlling the world.

  Vandana Shiva

  World, Saving, Genetic Engineering

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• I ... have two vocations: chess and engineering. If I played chess only, I believe that my success would not have been significantly greater. I can play chess well only when I have fully convalesced from chess and when the 'hunger for chess' once more awakens within me.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Success, Believe, Play

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• The first time you do something, it's science. The second time, it's engineering. The third time, it's just being a technician. I'm a scientist. Once I do something, I want to do something else.

  Clifford Stoll

  Want, Firsts, Just Being

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• If geek means you're willing to study things, and if you think science and engineering matter, I plead guilty. If your culture doesn't like geeks, you are in real trouble.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Success, Leadership

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• Most people don't realize that it's not just minorities who don't do well in science and engineering - quite frankly, you're talking about Americans.

  Freeman A. Hrabowski III

  Educational, Talking, People

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• Even in such technical lines as engineering, about 15% of one's financial success is due one's technical knowledge and about 85% is due to skill in human engineering, to personality and the ability to lead people.

  Dale Carnegie

  Wisdom, Knowledge, Technology

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• To succeed at re-engineering, you have to be a missionary, a motivator, and a leg breaker.

  Michael Martin Hammer

  Change, Missionary, Legs

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• Writers acquire their technique by spotting, savoring, and reverse-engineering examples of good prose.

  Steven Pinker

  Technique, Example, Savoring

  Steven Pinker (2014). “The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century”, p.17, Penguin

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• Being smart in the arts is the same as being smart in engineering is the same as being smart in writing is the same as being smart in anything, really. It's the ability to manipulate all the pieces of the puzzle in your mind, try to fit them together, and when they don't fit quite right... you sand the edges/corners and make them all fit.

  Gerald Jay Sussman

  Art, Writing, Design

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• For the birth of something new, there has to be a happening. Newton saw an apple fall; James Watt watched a kettle boil; Roentgen fogged some photographic plates. And these people knew enough to translate ordinary happenings into something new.

  Alexander Fleming

  Fall, Science, Fog

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• Most of our competitors were one-product wonders... They would do their one product, but never get their engineering sorted out.

  Bill Gates

  Business, Wonder, Competitors

  "The secret of Bill Gates' success" by Charles Miller, news.bbc.co.uk. June 19, 2008.

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• Forcing automakers to sell smaller cars to improve fuel economy [is like]... fighting the nation's obesity problem by forcing clothing manufacturers to sell garments in only small sizes.

  Bob Lutz

  Fighting, Science, Car

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• The letter e may now no longer be used to denote anything other than this positive universal constant.

  Edmund Landau

  Science, Letters, May

  Edmund Landau (1951). “Differential and integral calculus”

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• I believe that the time has arrived for medical investigation of the problems of manned rocket flight, for it will not be the engineering problems but rather the limits of the human frame that will make the final decision as to whether manned space flight will eventually become a reality.

  Wernher von Braun

  Believe, Reality, Medicine

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• Available energy is the main object at stake in the struggle for existence and the evolution of the world.

  Ludwig Boltzmann

  Struggle, Science, Energy

  "Ludwig Edward Boltzmann" by S. Rajasekar, September 7, 2006.

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• The purpose of a business is to get and keep a customer. Without customers, no amount of engineering wizardry, clever financing, or operations expertise can keep a company going.

  Theodore Levitt

  Clever, Purpose, Wizardry

  Theodore Levitt (1986). “Marketing Imagination: New, Expanded Edition”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

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• Inadequate use of usability engineering methods in software development projects have been estimated to cost the US economy about $30 billion per year in lost productivity.

  Jakob Nielsen

  Years, Cost, Use

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• When you're young, you're not afraid of what comes next. You're excited by it.

  Dave Grohl

  Audio, Next, Excited

  "Smells Like Teen Nostalgia" by Maggie Caldwell, www.motherjones.com. January 28, 2013.

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• Enlightened social engineering is required to face situations that demand global action now.

  John Goodlad

  Demand, Faces, Action

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• Enlightened social engineering is required to face situations that demand global action now. Education is a long-term solution. Parents and the general public must be reached also Otherwise, children and youth enrolled in globally oriented programs may find themselves in conflict with values assumed in the home. And then the educational institution frequently comes under scrutiny and must pull back.

  John Goodlad

  Children, Educational, Home

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• As I considered the matter carefully it gradually came to light that all those matters only were referred to mathematics in which order and measurements are investigated, and that it makes no difference whether it be in numbers, figures, stars, sounds or any other object that the question of measurement arises. I saw consequently that there must be some general science to explain that element as a whole which gives rise to problems about order and measurement, restricted as these are to no special subject matter. This, I perceived was called 'universal mathematics'.

  Rene Descartes

  Stars, Science, Light

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• To make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That's what got me into software engineering when I was a kid. I wanted to make money so I could buy a better computer to play better video games. Nothing like saving the world.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Kids, Games

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• Some survived due to advancements in engineering. Personally I'd take a vaccine over living in an iron lung. http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/01/what-america-looked-like-polio-children-paralyzed-in-iron-lungs/251098/

  Howard Tayler

  Children, Iron, Vaccines

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