Engineers Quotes - Page 17

• I scientifically engineer my music to be as accessible as possible.

  John Mayer

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• I was Google's first woman engineer.

  Marissa Mayer

  Google, Firsts

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• Product management really is the fusion between technology, what engineers do - and the business side.

  Marissa Mayer

  Technology, Fusion, Sides

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• I would never talk just to be social. Now, to sit down with a bunch of engineers and talk about the latest concrete forming systems, that's really interesting. Talking with animal behaviorists or with someone who likes to sail, that's interesting. Information is interesting to me. But talking for the sake of talking, I find that quite boring.

  Temple Grandin

  Inspirational, Funny, Animal

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• What really helps me is being able to record my albums at home - I have more fun experimenting that way, as opposed to working with an engineer, in which case I have to deal with the humiliation of doing take after take, and that can get frustrating.

  John Frusciante

  Fun, Home, Albums

  "John Frusciante: Dear Guitar Hero". Interview with Joe Bosso, www.guitarworld.com. May 11, 2009.

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• My father was an engineer and my mother was a social worker, and they met as young socialists. That probably tells you everything you need to know about my attitude to money - I've never really been bothered about it.

  Jo Brand

  Mother, Attitude, Father

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• And one of the things that I learned was you can't generalise at all about a woman in a veil. You can't think you know her story, because she will confound you over and over again. She may be an engineer or a diplomat or a doctor. Or she may be an unbelievable babe with bleached hair down to her waist.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Thinking, Doctors, Hair

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• To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.

  Alexander Calder

  Art, Mean, Perfect

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• My mother was a housewife but she was also an artist. My father was an electrical engineer.

  James Cameron

  Mother, Father, Artist

  James Cameron, Brent Dunham (2012). “James Cameron: Interviews”, p.110, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world - most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world's poor.

  Barry Commoner

  Teacher, Doctors, Views

  Interview With Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.

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• The worst thing in the world that can happen to you if you're an engineer that has given his life to something is for someone to rip it off and put their name to it.

  Tim Cook

  Rip, Names, World

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• Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a designer but that's because the designer himself, the engineer, is explained by natural selection.

  Richard Dawkins

  Car, Design, Natural

  "The atheist". Interview with Gordy Slack, www.salon.com. April 30, 2005.

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• As an engineer I'm constantly spotting problems and plotting how to solve them.

  James Dyson

  Problem, Solve

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• Engineers are behind the cars we drive, the pills we pop and the way we power our homes.

  James Dyson

  Home, Car, Pills

  "Engineers always do the business, Lord Sugar" by James Dyson, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2011.

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• I want entrepreneurs to be engineers and scientists and designers; they don't necessarily have to be Internet entrepreneurs or retail entrepreneurs.

  James Dyson

  Entrepreneur, Retail, Want

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• I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.

  Brian Eno

  Views, Trouble, Function

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• Companies like I.B.M. have offered women scholarships to study engineering for years, and women engineers routinely get higher starting salaries than men.

  Warren Farrell

  Men, Engineering, Years

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• The South produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors, lawyers and poets, but certainly not engineers or mechanics. Let the Yankees adopt such low callings.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Yankees, Doctors, Soldier

  "Gone with the Wind".

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• I can go into LinkedIn and search for network engineers and come up with a list of great spear-phishing targets because they usually have administrator rights over the network. Then I go onto Twitter or Facebook and trick them into doing something, and I have privileged access.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Rights, Target, Lists

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• I've actually found the image of Silicon Valley as a hotbed of money-grubbing tech people to be pretty false, but maybe that's because the people I hang out with are all really engineers.

  Linus Torvalds

  People, Valleys, Found

  "THE WAY WE LIVE NOW: 9-28-03: QUESTIONS FOR LINUS TORVALDS; The Sharer". Interview with David Diamond, www.nytimes.com. September 28, 2003.

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• Once you have an innovation culture, even those who are not scientists or engineers - poets, actors, journalists - they, as communities, embrace the meaning of what it is to be scientifically literate. They embrace the concept of an innovation culture. They vote in ways that promote it. They don't fight science and they don't fight technology.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Fighting, Technology, Community

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• After I changed the string we picked up right where we left off - and punched back in at the same time. I don't know if this has ever been done before. The engineer sort of looked at us weird, but we got it on the first take.

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Done, Firsts, Strings

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• Calling China's online censorship system a 'Great Firewall' is increasingly trendy, but misleading. All walls, being the creation of engineers, can be breached with the right tools.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Wall, Tools, Calling

  "Why the Internet is a great tool for totalitarians" by Evgeny Morozov, www.wired.com. December 27, 2010.

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• Both destiny's kisses and its dope-slaps illustrate an individual person's basic personal powerlessness over the really meaningful events in his life: i.e. almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it. Destiny has no beeper; destiny always leans trenchcoated out of an alley with some sort of Psst that you usually can't even hear because you're in such a rush to or from something important you've tried to engineer.

  David Foster Wallace

  Meaningful, Kissing, Dope

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• By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out. -this quote is actually found in Carl Sagan's book The Demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, where he attributes it to engineer James Oberg, who says he stole it from someone else.

  Richard Dawkins

  Book, Mean, Dark

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