Engineers Quotes - Page 16

• Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.

  Rick Cook

  Winning, Technology, Race

  "The Wizardry Compiled". Book by Rick Cook, 1989.

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• The Chinese are clearly inculcating the idea that science is exciting and important, and that's why they, as a whole-they're graduating four times as many engineers as we are, and that's just happened over the last 20 years.

  Bill Gates

  Science, Years, Ideas

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• If we slide into one of those rare moments of military honesty, we realize that the technical demands of modern warfare are so complex a considerable percentage of our material is bound to malfunction even before it is deployed against a foe. We no longer waste manpower by carrying the flag into battle. Instead we need battalions of electronic engineers to keep the terrible machinery grinding.

  Ernest K. Gann

  Honesty, Military, Battle

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• Israel has the best engineers in the world... I view Israel as a tremendous source of technologies

  Douglas H. Bosco

  Technology, Israel, Views

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• Suppose you had a small electrical fire and... a structural engineer [looked] at your home's wiring [and] reports that the wiring is "shot" and there is a 50% chance that your house would burn down in the next few years unless you replace all the wiring. The job will cost $20,000... so you get an independent assessment. The next engineer agrees with the first warning. You can either continue to shop for additional evaluations until you find the one engineer in 1,000 that is willing to give you the answer you want, "Your family is not in danger" or you can change the wiring.

  Steven Chu

  Jobs, Home, Independent

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• My favorite part about my job is not that it is never boring; it is that it is always exciting. There is always something new to learn. There is always something interesting to get from someone else. Whether it is an actor, or a sound engineer, there is so much to learn and there will never be nothing to learn. There is always something there.

  Zoey Deutch

  Jobs, Interesting, Actors

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• Writers are engineers of human souls.

  Yury Olesha

  Soul, Humans, Human Soul

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• Space is a harsh, inhospitable frontier and we are explorers, not colonisers. The skills of our engineers and the technology surrounding us make things appear simple when they are not, and perhaps we forget this sometimes. Better not to forget.

  Luca Parmitano

  Technology, Simple, Skills

  "Astronaut recounts his near-drowning on spacewalk". www.theguardian.com. August 20, 2013.

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• The only way to engineer the future tomorrow is to have lived in it yesterday.

  Bill Buxton

  Yesterday, Way, Tomorrow

  Bill Buxton (2010). “Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design”, p.37, Morgan Kaufmann

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• My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldnt understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be a chicken farmer.

  David Antin

  Mother, Widows, Chickens

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• I do feel that evolution is being controlled by some sort of divine engineer. I can't help thinking that. And this engineer knows exactly what he or she is doing and why, and where evolution is headed. That's why we've got giraffes and hippopotami and the clap.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Thinking, Helping, Evolution

  Interview with Jon Stewart on "The Daily Show", September 13, 2005.

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• Young people at universities study to achieve knowledge and not to learn a trade. We must all learn how to support ourselves, but we must also learn how to live. We need a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of modern engineers.

  Winston Churchill

  Learning, People, Support

  Winston Churchill (1950). “Europe Unite: Speeches 1947 and 1948”, London, Cassell

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• A great many college graduates come here thinking of lawyers as social engineers arguing the great Constitutional issues.

  Archibald Cox

  College, Thinking, Issues

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• Everything I've ever done is out. I don't have boxes of unreleased stuff. There's nothing in the files. I can never keep anything unless I don't like the sound of it or it didn't work. If I can sing it to an engineer, I can sing it to anyone.

  John Lennon

  Music, Sound, Done

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• So this Zealot comes to my door, all glazed eyes and clean reproductive organs, asking me if I ever think about God. So I tell him I killed God. I tracked God down like a rabid dog, hacked off his legs with a hedge trimmer, raped him with a corncob, and boiled off his corpse in an acid bath. So he pulls an alternating-current taser on me and tells me that only the Official Serbian Church of Tesla can save my polyphase intrinsic electric field, known to non-engineers as "the soul." So I hit him. What would you do?

  Warren Ellis

  Dog, Eye, Thinking

  "Transmetropolitan. God Riding Shotgun (issue #6)". Comic book by Warren Ellis,

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• When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Trust, Encouraging, Uplifting

  Corrie Ten Boom (1985). “Jesus is Victor”, Fleming H Revell Company

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• My grandfather was an engineer who invented the automatic pilot for airplanes.

  Temple Grandin

  Airplane, Grandfather, Pilots

  Temple Grandin (2011). “The Way I See It, Revised and Expanded 2nd Edition: A Personal Look at Autism and Asperger's”, p.249, BookBaby

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• Color is a very critical thing. I've found that architects don't like colors. Engineers too. And so somebody has to stand in. Because this is the finish of it. It is the emotional part of a structure.

  John Hench

  Emotional, Color, Architect

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• When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.

  Herbert Hoover

  Jobs, War, Men

  "31st President Achieved Prominence in Four Major Careers During His Lifetime". www.nytimes.com. Ooctober 21, 1964.

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• I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.

  Walter Isaacson

  Smart, Thinking, Engineering

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• A good engineer thinks in reverse and asks himself about the stylistic consequences of the components and systems he proposes.

  Helmut Jahn

  Thinking, Reverse, Propose

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• I was always a silent comedy nerd. I would stay up late and sneak downstairs to watch 'Saturday Night Live' and 'Kids in the Hall,' and things like that. Very early on, my parents realized that I was not going to be an engineer or a doctor. I just don't have those inclinations, at all.

  Mindy Kaling

  Kids, Night, Doctors

  "Mindy Kaling Talks Acting in and Producing THE MINDY PROJECT, Returning to THE OFFICE, GAME OF THRONES Obsessions and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 30, 2012.

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• You have teenagers thinking they're going to make millions as NBA stars when that's not realistic for even 1 percent of them. Becoming a scientist or engineer is.

  Dean Kamen

  Inspirational, Stars, Teenage

  "Kamen: we need more geeks now" by Michaelle Delio, www.wired.com. March 25, 2002.

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• The modern recording studio, with its well-trained engineers, 24-track machines and shiny new recording consoles, encourages the artist to get involved with sound. And there have always been artists who could make the equipment serve their needs in a highly personal way - I would single out the Beatles, Phil Spector, the Beach Boys and Thom Bell.

  Jon Landau

  Beach, Artist, Boys

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• I have three siblings. My sister makes music. My older brother is a classical conductor, and my younger brother is a mixing engineer.

  Lisa Loeb

  Brother, Sibling, Mixing

  Interview with Marah Eakin, music.avclub.com. July 28, 2011.

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