Engineering Quotes - Page 19

• Code reuse is the Holy Grail of Software Engineering.

  Douglas Crockford

  Holy Grail, Reuse, Software

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• Invention and entrepreneurship isn't about pure technology. Most people take whatever they see in front of them and relate it to something they understand. For at least ten years after Ford started building cars, people called them horseless carriages. It wasn't obvious to call it a car. They used to call the radio 'the wireless.' Innovation is much more about changing people and their perceptions and their attitudes and their willingness to accept change than it is about physics and engineering.

  Dean Kamen

  Attitude, Technology, Years

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• In the hands of a genius, engineering turns to magic, philosophy becomes poetry, and science pure imagination.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Philosophy, Hands, Imagination

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• It is pure mythology that women cannot perform as well as men in science, engineering and mathematics. In my experience, the opposite is true: Women are often more adept and patient at untangling complex problems, multitasking, seeing the possibilities in new solutions and winning team support for collaborative action.

  Weili Dai

  Team, Men, Winning

  "Women! Embrace your inner geek" by Weili Dai, www.cnn.com. March 7, 2012.

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• In science, technology, engineering and mathematics, men far outnumber women in the classroom and the boardroom.

  Weili Dai

  Technology, Men, Classroom

  "Women! Embrace your inner geek" by Weili Dai, www.cnn.com. March 7, 2012.

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• Historically, the British have always been rather wary of grand engineering projects - perhaps understandably, given that many of them have been delivered late and over budget.

  Evan Davis

  Projects, British, Given

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• Business ethics has always had problems that are distinct from those of other professions, such as medicine, law, engineering, dentistry, or nursing.

  Peter Singer

  Nursing, Law, Medicine

  "Putting ethics before profits" by Peter Singer, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2009.

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• To say that a man is made up of certain chemical elements is a satisfactory description only for those who intend to use him as a fertilizer.

  Hermann Joseph Muller

  Science, Men, Use

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• I have deep faith that the principle of the universe will be beautiful and simple

  Albert Einstein

  Beautiful, Nature, Science

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• All of physics is either impossible or trivial. It is impossible until you understand it, and then it becomes trivial.

  Ernest Rutherford

  Science, Understanding, Becoming

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• No effect that requires more than 10 percent accuracy in measurement is worth investigating.

  Walther Nernst

  Science, Measurement, Accuracy

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• My mother made me a scientist without ever intending to. Every other Jewish mother in Brooklyn would ask her child after school, So? Did you learn anything today? But not my mother. Izzy, she would say, did you ask a good question today? That difference - asking good questions - made me become a scientist.

  Isidor Isaac Rabi

  Mother, Children, School

  "Great Minds Start With Questions". Parents Magazine, September 1993.

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• Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called an engineering discipline.

  William J. Clinton

  Art, Technology, Discipline

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• One person's "paranoia" is another person's "engineering redundancy."

  Marcus J. Ranum

  Paranoia, Redundancy, Persons

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• An ocean traveler has even more vividly the impression that the ocean is made of waves than that it is made of water.

  Arthur Eddington

  Ocean, Science, Water

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• The physicist's greatest tool is his wastebasket.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, Experience, Tools

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• I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.

  Galileo Galilei

  Spiritual, Atheist, Believe

  "Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina". Essay by Galileo Galilei, 1615.

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• There was a transition going on - Baghdad being the intellectual capital of the world where major advances were made in agriculture and mathematics and engineering and medicine and astronomy, and then that all sort of collapsed. And I was trying to understand how such a intellectually fertile environment can lose its compass bearing. Because I think about the creative centers today - countries, or even regions. Will Silicon Valley always be as innovative? Will the United States be innovative, or will we become complacent?

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Country, Thinking, Medicine

  Source: bookriot.com

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• Bear in mind that we [ with Edward Herman] did not devise the terms "manufacture of consent" and "engineering of consent." We borrowed them from leading figures in the media, public relations industry, and academic scholarship.

  Noam Chomsky

  Media, Mind, Bears

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• Russia and China also cooperate in mechanical engineering, high-speed railway transportation, lumber processing, nuclear energy production and so on. We have built the Tianwan Nuclear Power Plant. Two units are already operational and are showing good results.

  Vladimir Putin

  Russia, Two, Energy

  Source: thesaker.is

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• I didn't finish high school, but I went to a special school for producers and musicians, a three year course for engineering, producing and learning all the tricks. So now I have my producing degree and certification.

  Martin Garrix

  School, Years, Special

  Source: www.tristateindie.com

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• In the first 27 years of my life, I never had written a single non-technical word. I went to engineering college and went to business school. I never knew I could write fiction of any form.

  Karan Bajaj

  Writing, School, College

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• He only wishes there were something that would heal the scars in his mind, which he can still feel. He sees his mind now as an archipelago of islands that he labors to build bridges between - and while he's had great success engineering the most spectacular of bridges, he suspects there are some islands that he'll never reach.

  Neal Shusterman

  Islands, Bridges, Mind

  Neal Shusterman (2012). “Unwind Unboxed: Unwind; UnStrung: an Unwind story; UnWholly”, p.739, Simon and Schuster

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• It's an ancient and honorable term for the final step in any engineering project. Turn it on, see if it smokes.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Finals, Steps, Ancient

  "Falling Free". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1988.

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• Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Courage

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