Engineering Quotes - Page 6

• Engineering is the art or science of making practical.

  Samuel Florman

  Art, Science, Definitions

  Samuel Florman (2013). “The Existential Pleasures of Engineering”, p.5, Souvenir Press

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• You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.

  Ken Robinson

  Philosophy, Math, Creative

  "TED and Reddit asked Sir Ken Robinson anything — and he answered". blog.ted.com. August 12, 2009.

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• Engineering stimulates the mind. Kids get bored easily. They have got to get out and get their hands dirty: make things, dismantle things, fix things. When the schools can offer that, you'll have an engineer for life.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Dirty, School, Kids

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• To every bushel of the powdered cement add one bushel of sand, mix them together and pass them through a sieve, then add a sufficient quantity of water to make it (by well mixing and working) about the consistency of a soft putty. It is then fit to use but should not be kept more than six or eight hours and should be thoroughly worked just before it is used.

  Canvass White

  Eight, Water, Consistency

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• They say there were birds who used to soar through the skies like planes.It seems strange that a small animal could achieve anything as complex as human engineering, but the possibility is too enticing to ignore.

  Tahereh Mafi

  Animal, Sky, Bird

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• No one wants to learn from mistakes, but we cannot learn enough from successes to go beyond the state of the art.

  Henry Petroski

  Success, Art, Mistake

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• Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.

  Brian Kernighan

  Inspirational, Funny, Smart

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• When wireless is fully applied the earth will be converted into a huge brain, capable of response in every one of its parts.

  Nikola Tesla

  Future, Brain, Earth

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• An osteopath is only a human engineer, who should understand all the laws governing his engine and thereby master disease.

  Andrew Taylor Still

  Healing, Law, Medicine

  Andrew Taylor Still, George Van O'Linda Webster (1935). “Sage Sayings of Still: Selected from the Writings of Dr. A.T. Still; with a Historical Sketch of Osteopathy and an Appreciation of Dr. Still”

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• A lawyer’s either a social engineer or … a parasite on society … A social engineer [is] a highly skilled, perceptive, sensitive lawyer who [understands] the Constitution of the United States and [knows] how to explore its uses in the solving of problems of local communities and in bettering conditions of the underprivileged citizens.

  Charles Hamilton Houston

  America, Community, Society

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• An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work.

  Dean Kamen

  Life, Change, Work

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• The more physics you have the less engineering you need.

  Ernest Rutherford

  Needs, Physics

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• Engineering is easy - it's the people problems that are hard.

  Temple Grandin

  People, Problem, Easy

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• All we know about the new economic world is that nations which train engineers will prevail over those which train lawyers. No nation has ever sued its way to greatness.

  Richard Lamm

  Greatness, World, Way

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• We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

  Winston Churchill

  Leadership, Shapes, Architecture

  "The Best-laid Plans: How Government Planning Harms Your Quality of Life, Your Pocketbook, and Your Future". Book by Randal O'Toole, p. 161, 2007.

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• Being a language, mathematics may be used not only to inform but also, among other things, to seduce.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Science, May, Language

  "Fractals: Form, Chance and Dimension". Book by Benoit Mandelbrot, 1977.

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• Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

  William Blake

  Genius, Improvement, Talent

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.38, Univ of California Press

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• We don’t care about what you did yesterday—we care about what you’re going to do tomorrow.

  Cory Doctorow

  Yesterday, Care, Tomorrow

  Cory Doctorow (2009). “Makers”, p.383, Macmillan

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• Software engineering is not about right and wrong but only better and worse

  Ellen Ullman

  Software, Software Engineering

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• Architects and engineers are among the most fortunate of men since they build their own monuments with public consent, public approval and often public money.

  John Prebble

  Men, Approval, Urban

  John Prebble (1956). “Disaster at Dundee”

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• Science, math and engineering can give you the exhilarating power to become not mere spectators or consumers, but the active explorers, makers and doers who will help invent the future.

  Susan Hockfield

  Math, Giving, Doers

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• The most important thing is to keep trying...

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Important, Trying, Alibaba

  "Are You Sleeping through the Restoration?". Dieter F. Uchtdorf's address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. April 2014.

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• We need all hands on deck, and that means clearing hurdles for women and girls as they navigate careers in science, technology, engineering, and math.

  Michelle Obama

  Girl, Mean, Math

  "Michelle Obama Lends a Hand For Women In Science" by Helene McLaughlin, www.wired.com. September 28, 2011.

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• Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.

  Vera Rubin

  Science, Progress, Mathematics

  "In Quest of the Universe". Book by Karl F. Kuhn, 2007.

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• Strive for perfection in everything you do.

  Henry Royce

  Perfection, Strive, Rolls Royce

  "I Know You Got Soul". Rolls-Royce, p. 19. Book by Jeremy Clarkson, 2004.

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