Engineering Quotes - Page 24

• I think the greatest curse of American society has been the idea of an easy millennialism -- that some new drug, or the next election or the latest in social engineering will solve everything.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Thinking, Ideas, America

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• It has been said that the three great develpments in twentieth century science are relativity, quantum mechanics, and chaos. That strikes me the same as saying that the three great developments in twentith century engineering are the airplane, the computer, and the pop-top aluminum can. Chaos and fractals are not even twentieth century ideas: chaos was first observed by Poincare and fractals were familiar to Cantor a century ago, although neither man had the computer at his disposal to show the rest of the world the beauty he was seeing.

  Robert L. Devaney

  Airplane, Men, Discovery

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• Once confined to fantasy and science fiction, time travel is now simply an engineering problem.

  Michio Kaku

  Fiction, Fantasy, Problem

  'The Super Power IssueA User’s Guide to Time Travel" by Michio Kaku, www.wired.com. August 1, 2003.

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• Advertising isnt just the disruption of aesthetics, the insults to your intelligence and the interruption of your train of thought. At every company that sells ads, a significant portion of their engineering team spends their day tuning data mining, writing better code to collect all your personal data.

  Jan Koum

  Team, Writing, Data

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• Hippocrates is an excellent geometer but a complete fool in everyday affairs.

  Aristotle

  Science, Everyday, Fool

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• I emphasize that virtually every engineering calculation is ultimately a failure calculation, because without a failure criterion against which to measure the calculated result, it is a meaningless number.

  Henry Petroski

  Numbers, Criteria, Results

  "ASK OCE Interview: Five Questions for Dr. Henry Petroski". ASK OCE Interview, appel.nasa.gov. February 26, 2010.

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• My worry is that other advances in science may result in other means of
  mass destruction, maybe more readily available even than nuclear weapons.
  Genetic engineering is quite a possible area, because of these dreadful
  developments that are taking place there.

  Joseph Rotblat

  Mean, Mass Destruction, Gmos

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• I never studied sculpture, engineering or architecture. In fact, after college I applied to seven art schools and was rejected by all seven.

  Janet Echelman

  Art, School, College

  "Taking imagination seriously". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2011.

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• This is not the internet the world needs, or the internet its creators envisioned. We need to take it back. And by we, I mean the engineering community.

  Bruce Schneier

  Mean, Community, Needs

  "The US government has betrayed the internet. We need to take it back" by Bruce Schneier, www.theguardian.com. September 5, 2013.

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• At their best, at their most creative, science and engineering are attributes of liberty-noble expressions of man's God-given right to investigate and explore the universe without fear of social or political or religious reprisals.

  David Sarnoff

  Religious, Science, Men

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• You go to a technology conference or an engineering conference, there are very few women there. At the same time it's a blessing in the fact that you do get noticed. People tend to remember you as the only woman in the room 'who said that', or the only woman in the room who was an engineer.

  Padmasree Warrior

  Technology, Blessing, Remember You

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• All my days are themed.  Monday is managementTuesday is product, engineering, and design.  Wednesday is marketing, growth, and communications.  Thursday is partnership and developers.  Friday is company and cultureOn the days beginning with T, I start at Twitter in the morning, then go to Square in the afternoon.  Sundays are for strategySaturday is a day off.

  Jack Dorsey

  Friday, Monday, Morning

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• The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.

  Aristotle

  Science, Order, Special

  Aristotle (2012). “The Metaphysics”, p.202, Roger Bishop Jones

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• Inventing is the resolution of technical contradictions.

  Genrich Altshuller

  Contradiction, Resolution, Inventing

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• PayPal once rejected a candidate who aced all the engineering tests because for fun, the guy said that he liked to play hoops. That single sentence lost him the job.

  Max Levchin

  Jobs, Fun, Play

  Interview with Peter Thiel, gist.github.com. 2012.

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• Let's face it: Engineering companies in general have more men than women. Google has tried really hard to recruit women. On the other hand, we have a standard. Google tries to recruit the best engineers.

  Susan Wojcicki

  Men, Hands, Google

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• Government has ceased to mean upholding and reinforcing the traditional rights and morals of the governed; it now means compulsion in the service of social engineering.

  Joseph Sobran

  Mean, Rights, Government

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• I was taking chemical engineering. But I went into the army after that. When I came out of the army, I was a different person. I met a lot of good jazz players in the army.

  Mose Allison

  Army, Player, Different

  Interview with Jason Heller, music.avclub.com. April 02, 2010.

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• I was attracted to things that combined art and science equally. I've always been equally interested in art design, science and engineering.

  Bran Ferren

  Art, Design, Art Design

  "Conversations with Michael Eisner", www.nbcnews.com. March 28, 2006.

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• For the personality, bankruptcy or failure may be a disaster. For the soul, it may be grist for its strangely joyful mill, and a condition it has been secretly engineering for years.

  David Whyte

  Years, Personality, Soul

  David Whyte (2007). “The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America”, p.17, Crown Business

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• We could replace people with fossil fuels, have higher and higher levels of industrialization, of agriculture, of production, without thinking of the green-house gases we were admitting, and climate change is really the pollution of the engineering paradigm, when fossil fuels drove industrialism. To now offer that same mindset as a solution is to not take seriously what Einstein said: that you can't solve the problems by using the same mindset that caused them.

  Vandana Shiva

  Thinking, Agriculture, People

  Source: www.nogeoingegneria.com

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• By the time we, consumers, are aware of processes like genetic engineering, they're already being done. It's sort of like the war in Iraq: By the time we know about it, it's almost a fait accompli. And that's certainly true with science.

  Ruth Ozeki

  War, Iraq, Done

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• In high school I was good at math and everybody wanted me to do something with that - mathematics or engineering - which was a nightmare scenario for me. Meeting other artists and going to punk rock shows at that age, there was a feeling of freedom and community that I wanted to partake in.

  Laura Owens

  School, Math, Artist

  Interview with Rachel Kushner, www.believermag.com. May 2003.

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• Companies want to innovate. Companies that don't innovate wither on the vine. The connection between STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) and the financial stability of a nation is what needs to established.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Technology, Connections, Needs

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• For decades engineers have stood accused that their buildings do not have any cultural value. We have attempted to liberate engineering of this accusation. As National Socialists we are dedicated to working with boldness, but also with love of the Volk and our landscape in mind. These roads do not serve transportation alone, they also bind our Fatherland. In these highways our engineering will reflect the National Socialist movement.

  Fritz Todt

  Mind, Landscape, Movement

  "Deutsche Technik", p. 270, June 1935.

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