Engineering Quotes - Page 25

• I do believe in God, but I think it's very healthy for a believer to spend time in the pragmatism of agnosticism, and I think God appreciates agnostics trying to make a science of it and going, "I will not believe any further than that." I enjoy that kind of engineering mind. In no way did it ever feel blasphemous to me as a man of faith.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Believe, Men, Thinking

  "Q&A: True Detective's Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson, the Laurel and Hardy of Existential Despair". Interview with John Lopez, grantland.com. January 8, 2014.

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• Every orchid or rose or lizard or snake is the work of a dedicated and skilled breeder. There are thousands of people, amateurs and professionals, who devote their lives to this business. Now imagine what will happen when the tools of genetic engineering become accessible to these people.

  Freeman Dyson

  Orchids, Snakes, People

  Freeman Dyson (2015). “Dreams of Earth and Sky”, p.2, New York Review of Books

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• I was always intrigued when I was growing up, and then in engineering school, with the idea of a perpetual machine. I think of the Wal-Mart culture as that.

  Mike Duke

  Growing Up, School, Thinking

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• Engineering, I think you can pick up. [A data scientist's] curiosity is built-in

  Scott Nicholson

  Thinking, Data, Curiosity

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• I happen to love engineering. I love figuring things out in a spatial sense, that whole realm of working with mechanical parts, and the relationship of the parts, and things like ratios and the speeds of particular objects.

  Arthur Ganson

  Ratios, Speed, Figuring Things

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• In life sciences, we find a reasonable balance between men and women. In engineering and computer science, we have a major problem. A very small percentage of women will be in computer science.

  Freeman A. Hrabowski III

  Men, Balance, Computer

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• Genetic engineering is a result of science advancement, so I don't think that in itself is bad.

  Hideo Kojima

  Thinking, Advancement, Results

  Source: www.ign.com

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• Failure is Central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation.

  Henry Petroski

  Engineers, Calculations

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• I was going to engineering school but fell in love with physics.

  Leonard Susskind

  School, Physics

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• The present Luddism over genetic engineering may die a natural death as the computer-illiterate generation is superseded.... I fear that, if the green movement's high-amplitude warnings over GMOs turn out to be empty, people will be dangerously disinclined to listen to other and more serious warnings.

  Richard Dawkins

  Gmos, People, Atheism

  Richard Dawkins (2010). “A Devil's Chaplain: Selected Writings”, p.20, Hachette UK

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• Bicycles are pieces of art. You get that combination of kinetic engineering, but then, besides the welds, the paint jobs, the kind of the sculpture of it all is quite beautiful. Bikes have such great lines, and all different styles.

  Robin Williams

  Beautiful, Art, Jobs

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• It should soon be possible dramatically to increase the intelligence and life span of a few individuals. They and their offspring could become a master race. Evolution pays no regard to social justice. It was not fair on the Neanderthals they were replaced by modern humans.

  Stephen Hawking

  Race, Justice, Pay

  "Gods of science: Stephen Hawking and Brian Cox discuss mind over matter". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2010.

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• Engineering is the application of scientific principles toward practical ends. If the engineering isn't practical, it's bad engineering.

  Steve McConnell

  Principles, Ends, Application

  Steve McConnell (1999). “After the Gold Rush: Creating a True Profession of Software Engineering”

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• Engineering is not quite as important as imagination.

  Satoru Iwata

  Imagination, Important

  "Satoru Iwata changed the whole games industry and now leaves it in mourning" by Rich Stanton, Keith Stuart, www.theguardian.com. July 13, 2015.

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• A company that cannot successfully implement the 5S's cannot expect to effectively integrate JIT, re-engineering, or any other large-scale change. Good workplaces develop beginning with the 5S's. Bad workplaces fall apart beginning with the 5S's.

  Hiroyuki Hirano

  Fall, Workplace, Integrating

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• I reckon that the Bailey Bridge and the bulldozer were the greatest advances in military engineering in the years between World War I and World War II.

  Christopher Vokes

  Military, War, Years

  "Vokes - My Story" by Chris Vokes, John Philip Maclean, (p. 56), 1985.

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