Engineering Quotes - Page 22

• One of the great inventions of the twentieth century was the studied, methodical engineering of myth for political ends.

  Caryl Rivers

  Political, Great Inventions, Century

  Caryl Rivers (1991). “More joy than rage: crossing generations with the new feminism”, Univ Pr of New England

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• When I was working in my first job engineering construction, what I liked the most was working with architects and making buildings that had this creative side coming from the architect and that were making them a big success.

  Bernard Arnault

  Jobs, Creative, Firsts

  "Chairman of LVMH, Bernard Arnault". "Talk Asia" with Lorraine Hahn, www.cnn.com. February 12, 2005.

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• Now that I'm on Broadway, it's like NASA engineering with the costumes. I was very grateful for the slightly more high-tech ones in my show, 'Venus in Fur'; our costume designer Anita Yavich is kind of a genius.

  Nina Arianda

  Grateful, Fur, Genius

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• I started out in engineering. I was a geophysical engineer. Throughout the course of my life I've done a lot of strange jobs, and the effect has been to make me think a little more skeptically about our capitalist society.

  George Saunders

  Jobs, Thinking, Done

  "Conversation: George Saunders, Author of ‘Tenth of December’". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. January 18, 2013.

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• The best thing that ever happened to me is that nothing happened in writing. I ended up working for engineering companies, and that's where I found my material, in the everyday struggle between capitalism and grace. Being broke and tired, you don't come home your best self.

  George Saunders

  Struggle, Writing, Tired

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• I went to engineering school, I went to physics class. I said, 'Screw this, I don't want to be here. I'd much rather be at a club playing music.

  Huey Lewis

  School, Class, Playing Music

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• It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering.

  Jaron Lanier

  Technology, Information, Impossible

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• George Washington was quite a farmer. He was a farmer, Civil Engineer and gentleman. He made enough at civil engineering to indulge in both the other luxuries.

  Will Rogers

  Indulge In, Luxury, Agriculture

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• Nuclear weapons need large facilities, but genetic engineering can be done in a small lab. You can't regulate every lab in the world. The danger is that either by accident or design, we create a virus that destroys us.

  Stephen Hawking

  Design, Viruses, Needs

  "Colonies in space may be only hope, says Hawking". Interview with Roger Highfield, www.telegraph.co.uk. October 16, 2001.

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• A classic engineering mistake and one I've made is confusing what is hard and what is valuable.

  Max Levchin

  Mistake, Confusing, Classic

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• I do quite like Gehry's Guggenheim. But where in Bilbao it's seen as an outgrowth of years of investment in urban design and engineering, in Britain it's seen as the catalyst for urban regeneration rather than the icing on the cake.

  David Chipperfield

  Years, Cake, Design

  "'In Britain, money and marketing are what matter most'". Interview with Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2005.

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• Similarly for marking exercises, quantitative exercises, maybe not so much in mathematics, but certainly problem sets in physics, chemistry, and engineering and things like that where answers and methods are clear cut, absolutely. I would like to see that done online.

  David Gelernter

  Cutting, Exercise, Done

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• ... man cannot help but transcend himself as soon as he begins to design and construct.

  Samuel Florman

  Men, Design, Helping

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• ... the ancient joy of helping the tribe to survive is constantly rekindled in the engineer's heart.

  Samuel Florman

  Heart, Joy, Tribes

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• I used to be a chemical-engineering student, but I started studying acting, and I went for a cattle call, up against hundreds of people. They tore me down because I was too tall. They said "How tall are you?" "6'5"." "Next."

  Dolph Lundgren

  People, Acting, Next

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The engineer's power was usually limited to a refusal to endorse a given plan, or to the tender of his resignation.

  Samuel Florman

  Refusal, Given, Resignation

  Samuel Florman (2013). “The Existential Pleasures of Engineering”, p.31, Souvenir Press

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• The Romans spent the next 200 years using their great engineering skill to construct ruins all over Europe.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, Italian

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.108, Ballantine Books

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• In the next decade we plan to create the first gender balance engineering school in Africa. We believe women should be part of the solution.

  Patrick Awuah, Jr.

  Believe, School, Balance

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• Choose one thing and become a master of it. Choose a second thing and become a master of that. When you become a master of two worlds, say, engineering and business, you can bring them together in a way that will a) introduce hot ideas to each other, so they can have idea sex and make idea babies that no one has seen before and b) create a competitive advantage because you can move between worlds, speak both languages, connect the tribes, mash the elements to spark fresh creative insight until you wake up with the epiphany that changes your life.

  Justine Musk

  Baby, Sex, Moving

  "Elon Musk's first wife explains what it takes to become a billionaire" by Madeline Stone, www.businessinsider.com. April 21, 2015.

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• Corporations, in the name of efficiency, suppress variation by "getting all the ducks in line."To optimize productivity, they evolve highly refined and internally consistent operating systems. Payoff - results - as long as the music lasts. But ... all that streamlining and re-engineering limits diversity, suppresses self-organization ... and curtails a bottom up emergent response to disruptive change.

  Richard Pascale

  Knowledge, Learning, Names

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• Challenger was lost because NASA came to believe its own propaganda. The agency's deeply impacted cultural hubris had it that technology-engineering-would always triumph over random disaster if certain rules were followed. The engineers-turned-technocrats could not bring themselves to accept the psychology of machines with abandoning the core principle of their own faith: equations, geometry, and repetition-physical law, precision design, and testing-must defy chaos.

  William E. Burrows

  Believe, Technology, Agency

  William E. Burrows (2010). “This New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age”, p.560, Modern Library

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• What is innovation if not our ticket to every business interest in the world? Its the ticket to solving the worlds problems - the energy problems, the pollution problems, the global warming problems. If it isnt for science and engineering, how will we compete in the new world?

  David Pogue

  Innovation, World, Tickets

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• Progress is cumulative in science and engineering, but cyclical in finance.

  James Grant

  Progress, Banking, Finance

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• Persons who reach the higher rungs in business management, selling, engineering, religious work, writing, acting, and in every other pursuit get there by following conscientiously and continuously a plan for self-development and growth.

  David J. Schwartz

  Religious, Writing, Self

  David J Schwartz (2016). “The Magic of Thinking Big”, p.17, Random House

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• I was 21 and had spent the last few years in Stanford University Engineering School at California. Many people advised me to take up a nice, cushy job rather than face the challenges of running a hydrogenated oil business. Looking back, I am glad I decided to take charge instead. Essentially leadership begins from within. It is a small voice that tells you where to go when you feel lost. If you believe in that voice, you believe in yourself.

  Azim Premji

  Inspirational, Running, Jobs

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