Engineering Quotes - Page 18

• The real world is far too complex and unpredictable to make something like the idea of humanity controlling its own evolution or engineering itself - well, I wouldn't say impossible but it should be approached with a degree of caution.

  Ken MacLeod

  Real, Ideas, Humanity

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• I hated science in high school. Technology? Engineering? Math? Why would I ever need this? Little did I realize that music was also about science, technology, engineering and mathematics, all rolled into one.

  Mickey Hart

  School, Math, Technology

  "There’s a Fire on the Mountain" by Mickey Hart, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 22, 2011.

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• Engineering isn't about perfect solutions; it's about doing the best you can with limited resources.

  Randy Pausch

  Perfect, Limited Resources, Solutions

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The Last Lecture”, p.17, Hachette UK

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• Climate protection creates sustainability and jobs in the real economy - in construction, in the production of heavy machinery and in systems engineering.

  Sigmar Gabriel

  Jobs, Real, Climate

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• Anything which is physically possible can always be made financially possible; money is a bugaboo of small minds.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Inspirational, Mind, Made

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• Our federal income tax law defines the tax y to be paid in terms of the income x; it does so in a clumsy enough way by pasting several linear functions together, each valid in another interval or bracket of income. An archeologist who, five thousand years from now, shall unearth some of our income tax returns together with relics of engineering works and mathematical books, will probably date them a couple of centuries earlier, certainly before Galileo and Vieta.

  Hermann Weyl

  Couple, Book, Math

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• I've always disliked words like inspiration. Writing is probably like a scientist thinking about some scientific problem, or an engineer about an engineering problem.

  Doris Lessing

  Inspiration, Writing, Thinking

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• Worship isn't destructive, Martin. I know that. I don't. I only know it's the core of his life. What else has he got? He can hardly read. He knows no physics or engineering to make to world real for him. No paintings to show him how others have enjoyed it. No music except television jingles. No history except tales from a desperate mother. No friends. Not one kid to give him a joke, or make him know himself more moderately. He's a modern citizen for whom society doesn't exist.

  Peter Shaffer

  Mother, Real, Kids

  Peter Shaffer (2011). “Equus”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

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• Writing a class without its contract would be similar to producing an engineering component (electrical circuit, VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) chip, bridge, engine...) without a spec. No professional engineer would even consider the idea.

  Bertrand Meyer

  Writing, Bridges, Class

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• What's gotten in the way of education in the United States is a theory of social engineering that says there is ONE RIGHT WAY to proceed with growing up.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Growing Up, United States, Way

  John Taylor Gatto, Thomas Moore (2013). “Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling”, p.51, New Society Publishers

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• For every scientific (or engineering) action, there is an equal and opposite social reaction.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Opposites, Action, Social

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• Sloppy language and sloppy ways go together. Those who are truly educated have learned more than the sciences, the humanities, law, engineering, and the arts. They carry with them a certain polish that marks them as loving the better qualities of life, a culture that adds luster to the mundane world of which they are apart, a patina that puts a quiet glow on what otherwise might be base metal.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Art, Law, Humanity

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• Social engineering bypasses all technologies, including firewalls.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Technology, Bypass, Social

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• It's clearly a crisis of two things: of consciousness and conditioning. We have the technological power, the engineering skills to save our planet, to cure disease, to feed the hungry, to end war; But we lack the intellectual vision, the ability to change our minds. We must decondition ourselves from 10,000 years of bad behavior. And, it's not easy.

  Terence McKenna

  War, Years, Skills

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• Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Philosophy, Science, Bird

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• One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.

  Stephen Hawking

  Love, Life, Stars

  "Stephen Hawking on Religion: 'Science Will Win'" by Ki Mae Heussner, abcnews.go.com. June 07, 2010.

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• No one expected a first year engineering student to build the perfect bridge.

  Janet Evanovich

  Years, Bridges, Perfect

  Janet Evanovich (2011). “Stephanie Plum One, Two, Three: One for the Money, Two for the Dough, Three to Get Deadly”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• I think people all over the institution recognize that different ways of understanding are valuable. Artists may think in a different way than biologists or chemists, but you can learn something from that. It is true that the arts at MIT don't have the same amount of funding or same status as the sciences or engineering.

  Alan Lightman

  Art, Thinking, People

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. November 16, 2000.

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• I feel very strongly that history is about everything. It isn't just about politics or the military or social issues. If art, music, engineering, science, medicine, finance, the world of architecture and technology - if those are left out, then you're not getting a full sense of the human condition. History is human and we human beings are involved in all kinds of things and that's part of our humanity.

  David McCullough

  Art, Military, Technology

  Source: belmontvision.com

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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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• Death is an engineering problem.

  Bart Kosko

  Problem

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• Conservatives have a deeper intellect and tend to have occupations of the brain in fields like engineering, science, and economics. Liberals, on the other hand, tend to flock to occupations of the heart.

  Dick Armey

  Heart, Hands, Brain

  "Blair Snitch Project II" by Eric Umansky, www.slate.com. September 25, 2002.

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• Spread the truth-the laws of economics are like the laws of engineering. One set of laws works everywhere.

  Lawrence Summers

  Law, Economics, Spread

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• I went to a school that's predominantly computer science and engineering. So, there's a real shortage of hot girls, let's say.

  Joe Manganiello

  Girl, Real, School

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Go for civil engineering, because civil engineering is the branch of engineering which teaches you the most about managing people. Managing people is a skill which is very, very useful and applies almost regardless of what you do.

  John Harvey-Jones

  Skills, People, Branches

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