Engineers Quotes - Page 15

• A brilliant author or businesswoman or senator or software engineer is brilliant only in tiny bursts. The rest of the time, they’re doing work that most any trained person could do.

  Seth Godin

  Tiny, Brilliant, Software

  Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.51, Penguin

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• A dagger is the noble weapon of Brutus. Everyone understands that tyrants fall to daggers. A bomb is a sordid modern device with many complex working parts. Only engineers understand bombs

  Bruce Sterling

  Fall, Tyrants, Noble

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• Almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it.

  David Foster Wallace

  Important, Happens

  David Foster Wallace (2011). “Infinite Jest”, p.204, Hachette UK

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• I do not want to drive across a bridge designed by an engineer who believed the numbers in structural stress models are relative truths.

  R. C. Sproul

  Stress, Bridges, Numbers

  R. C. Sproul (2003). “Running the Race: A Graduate's Guide to What's Important in Life”, Baker Publishing Group

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• A mechanic is just an engineer in blue jeans.

  Daniel H. Wilson

  Blue, Jeans, Mechanic

  Daniel H. Wilson (2011). “Robopocalypse”, p.198, Simon and Schuster

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• She felt that she would have to be much more than just a doctor or an engineer. She would have to be a saint.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Doctors, Saint, Felt

  Flannery O'Connor (2016). “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, p.64, Faber & Faber

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• I want to be a writer, not an engineer who writes books.

  Paulo Coelho

  Book, Writing, Want

  Paulo Coelho (2011). “Like the Flowing River: Thoughts and Reflections”, p.11, HarperCollins UK

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• I have my own theory about why decline happens at companies like IBM or Microsoft. The company does a great job, innovates and becomes a monopoly or close to it in some field, and then the quality of the product becomes less important. The company starts valuing the great salesmen, because they’re the ones who can move the needle on revenues, not the product engineers and designers. So the salespeople end up running the company.

  Walter Isaacson

  Running, Jobs, Moving

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Walter Isaacson Great Innovators e-book boxed set: Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin, Einstein”, p.692, Simon and Schuster

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• I wanted to be a psychological engineer, but we lacked the facilities, so I did the next best thing - I went into politics. It's practically the same thing.

  Isaac Asimov

  Next, Psychological, Wanted

  Isaac Asimov (1951). “Foundation”

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• I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer - born under the second law of thermodynamics, steeped in steam tables, in love with free-body diagrams, transformed by Laplace, and propelled by compressible flow.

  Neil Armstrong

  Law, White, Pockets

  "The Engineered Century". Neil Armstrong's remarks at the National Engineers Week on behalf of the National Academy of Engineering at the National Press Club, www.nae.edu. February 22, 2000.

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• I have stated it plain, an' my argument's thus ( It's all one, says the Sapper) There's only one Corps which is perfect - that's us; An' they call us Her Majesty's Engineers, With the rank and pay of a Sapper!

  Rudyard Kipling

  Army, Perfect, Sappers

  Rudyard Kipling (2011). “The Seven Seas”, p.99, House of Stratus

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• I done became bigger swervin writin in my peer's lane. Same dudes that used to holla my engineer's name.

  Drake

  Humble, Names, Peers

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• Natural species are the library from which genetic engineers can work.

  Thomas Lovejoy

  Library, Natural, Complexity

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• Natural species are the library from which genetic engineers can work. Genetic engineers don't make new genes, they rearrange existing ones. Speaking as World Wildlife Fund Executive Vice President, stating the need to conserve biodiversity, even plants and animals having no immediate use, as a unique repository of genes for possible future biogengineering applications.

  Thomas Lovejoy

  Animal, Unique, President

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• One principle problem of educating software engineers is that they will not use a new method until they believe it works and, more importantly, that they will not believe the method will work until they see it for themselves.

  Watts Humphrey

  Believe, Principles, Use

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• Every improvement or innovation begins with an idea. But an idea is only a possibility - a small beginning that must be nurtured, developed, engineer, tinkered with, championed, tested, implemented and checked ideas have no value until they are implemented.

  Alan Robinson

  Creativity, Ideas, Innovation

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• It is a great profession. There is the fascination of watching a figment of the imagination emerge through the aid of science to a plan on paper. Then it moves to realization in stone or metal or energy. Then it brings jobs and homes to men. Then it elevates the standards of living and adds to the comforts of life. That is the engineer's high privilege.

  Herbert Hoover

  Jobs, Moving, Home

  Herbert Hoover (1951). “The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover: Years of adventure, 1874-1920”

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• The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where all can see them. His acts, step by step, are in hard substance. He cannot bury his mistakes in the grave like the doctors. He cannot argue them into thin air or blame the judge like the lawyers. He cannot, like the architects, cover his failures with trees and vines. He cannot, like the politicians, screen his shortcomings by blaming his opponents and hope the people will forget. The engineer simply cannot deny he did it. If his works do not work, he is damned.

  Herbert Hoover

  Mistake, Men, Doctors

  Herbert Hoover (1952). “Memoirs: Years of adventure, 1874-1920”

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• We had just played a sold-out show and it had been a fun night when we heard the news. It brought everything back to reality. He was a brilliant guy. He was an aerospace engineer and an entrepreneur. We were just starting to write new songs two weeks after he died. We were still grieving. So that was naturally a big subject matter for the album.

  Brendan Bayliss

  Song, Fun, Writing

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• At the same time, one of the things I noticed was that the moment there was any kind of audio attached to virtual reality, it really improved the experience, even though the audio didn't feel like a sound engineer or composer had been anywhere near it.

  Thomas Dolby

  Reality, Sound, Audio

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• My father, a mining engineer and colliery manager, gave his brood many advantages not least of which, for me, was his love of singing which gave music a central place in our lives.

  James Black

  Father, Singing, His Love

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• As an engineer, I understood that the natural world operated according to fixed laws. Through my studies, I came to realize that there were, likewise, laws that govern human wellbeing. It seemed to me that these laws are fundamental not only to the wellbeing of societies, but also to the miniature societies of organizations. Indeed, that is what we found when we began to apply these principles systematically at Koch Industries. Through our observation of how they could create prosperity in an organization, I began to systematize my beliefs into Market-Based Management.

  Charles Koch

  Law, Organization, Principles

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• A good engineer gets stale very fast if he doesn't keep his hands dirty.

  Wernher von Braun

  Dirty, Hands, Stale

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• When you're a kid and your father is an engineer, he goes to the office. I saw my father get up and go to the office in the house and write. But I don't see any similarities.

  Jacques Audiard

  Father, Writing, Kids

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• Engineers use knowledge primarily to design, produce, and operate artifacts. ... Scientists, by contrast, use knowledge primarily to generate more knowledge.

  Walter Guido Vincenti

  Knowledge, Science, Engineering

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