Engineers Quotes - Page 18

• Technology frightens me to death. It's designed by engineers to impress other engineers, and they always come with instruction booklets that are written by engineers for other engineers - which is why almost no technology ever works.

  John Cleese

  Technology, Instruction, Impress

  "Die Another Day". Interview with Nev Pierce, www.bbc.co.uk. November 20, 2002.

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• There is one other error in the Gondsman's line of resoning, I believe, on ap urely emotional level. If machines replace achievement, then to what will people aspire? And who are we, truly, without such goals? Beware the engineers of society, I say, who would make everyone in all the world equal. Opportunity should be equal, must be equal, but achievement must remain individual.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Believe, Opportunity, Emotional

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• People know, or dimly feel, that if thinking is not kept pure and keen, and if respect for the world of mind is no longer operative, ships and automobiles will soon cease to run right, the engineer's slide rule and the computations of banks and stock exchanges will forfeit validity and authority, and chaos will ensue.

  Hermann Hesse

  Running, Thinking, People

  Hermann Hesse (2002). “The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel”, p.48, Holt Paperbacks

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• Except for when I was very little and thought that being an "engineer" meant he drove a train. Then I imagined him in the seat of an engine car the color of coal, a string of shiny passenger cars trailing behind. One day my father laughed and corrected me. Everything snapped into focus. It's one of those unforgettable moments that happen as a child, when you discover that all along the world has been betraying you.

  Nicole Krauss

  Children, Father, Color

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• You are a manipulator. I like to think of myself more as an outcome engineer.

  J.R. Ward

  Thinking, Outcomes, Comedy

  J.R. Ward (2011). “J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 1-4”, p.938, Penguin

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• Scientists and engineers ought to stand side by side with athletes and entertainers as role models.

  Barack Obama

  Athlete, Role Models, Roles

  "Obama Remarks on Math, Science and Technology Education". www.washingtonpost.com. November 23, 2009.

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• I think of myself as an engineer, not as a visionary or 'big thinker.' I don't have any lofty goals.

  Linus Torvalds

  Thinking, Goal, Visionaries

  "The Peacemaker" by David Diamond, www.wired.com. July 01, 2003.

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• If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for an equal shot at the starting gate, everyone wins, except for the charlatans and would be dictators.

  Ben Stein

  Winning, Upset, Trying

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• Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.

  Elon Musk

  Technology, People, Valleys

  "TOPICS > SCIENCE Extended Interview: Tesla Motors Chairman Elon Musk". Interview with Spencer Michels, www.pbs.org. June 25, 2008.

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• My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment - my father is an electromechanical engineer. And so there were lots of engineery things around me.

  Elon Musk

  Father, Engineering, Physics

  "Elon Musk’s Mission to Mars". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.wired.com. October 21, 2012.

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• Silicon Valley has evolved a critical mass of engineers and venture capitalists and all the support structure - the law firms, the real estate, all that - that are all actually geared toward being accepting of startups.

  Elon Musk

  Real, Law, Support

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My background is in physics, so I was the mission specialist, who is sort of like the flight engineer on an airplane.

  Sally Ride

  Airplane, Flight, Physics

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• In my first start-up, I had an initial advertising budget of $5 per day total. That would buy us 100 clicks per day. At $5 per day, marketing people scoffed and said that is too small to matter. But if you think about it, to an engineer, 100 real humans everyday giving your product a try means you can really start improving.

  Eric Ries

  Real, Mean, Thinking

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• A lot of the Google inventions came from engineers just screwing around with ideas. And then management would see them, and we'd say, 'Boy, that's interesting. Let's add some more engineers.'

  Eric Schmidt

  Boys, Ideas, Interesting

  "Google Chairman Eric Schmidt Plays Not My Job". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. May 11, 2013.

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• We worked with the engineers in the design and construction and testing phases in those various areas, then we would get back together at the end of the week and brief each other as to what had gone on.

  Alan Shepard

  Design, Together, Gone

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• The engineer, and more generally the designer, is concerned with how things ought to be - how they ought to be in order to attain goals, and to function.

  Herbert Simon

  Order, Goal, Designer

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• When I was growing up, I installed refrigerators in supermarkets. My father was an electrical engineer.

  Will Smith

  Growing Up, Father, Refrigerators

  "I, Robocop". Interview with Jennifer Hillner, www.wired.com. July 1, 2004.

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• I have been a systems engineer, systems administrator, a senior adviser for the Central Intelligence Agency, a solutions consultant and a telecommunications information systems officer.

  Edward Snowden

  Senior, Agency, Information

  "NSA Leaker Edward Snowden in His Own Words: 'You're Being Watched"'". Interview with Glenn Greenwald, www.truth-out.org. July 04, 2013.

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• The writer is the engineer of the human soul.

  Joseph Stalin

  Soul, Humans, Human Soul

  "Stalin and the Literary Intelligentsia" by А. Kemp-Welch, Basingstoke and London, (pp. 12-31), 1991.

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• Normal people... believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet.

  Scott Adams

  Believe, People, Normal

  Scott Adams (1996). “The Dilbert principle: a cubicle's-eye view of bosses, meetings, management fads & other workplace afflictions”

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• We got half the doggone MIT college of engineering here, and nobody who can fix a doggone /television/?" Dr. Joseph Abernathy glared accusingly at the clusters of young people scattered around his living room. That's /electrical/ engineering, Pop," his son told him loftily. "We're all mechanical engineers. Ask a mechanical engineer to fix your color TV, that's like asking an Ob-Gyn to look at the sore on your di-ow!" Oh, sorry," said his father, peering blandly over gold-rimmed glasses. "That your foot, Lenny?

  Diana Gabaldon

  Sorry, Father, Son

  Diana Gabaldon (2012). “The Outlander Series 7-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone”, p.2395, Dell

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• But I live very simply. I farm - there is something visceral about being attached to the land. I am a recording engineer. I do my own laundry most days and I get on with the business of living.

  Sandra Lerner

  Land, Laundry, Visceral

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• Qualified software engineers, managers, marketers and salespeople in Silicon Valley can rack up dozens of high-paying, high-upside job offers any time they want, while national unemployment and underemployment is sky high

  Marc Andreessen

  Jobs, Sky, Unemployment

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• Every application has an inherent amount of irreducible complexity. The only question is who will have to deal with it, the user or the developer (programmer or engineer).

  Larry Tesler

  Simplicity, Complexity, Deals

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• Being from a very traditional Chinese-American family, my parents believed the only options to have a successful life were to be a doctor, a lawyer, an engineer or a business person.

  Phillip Lim

  Successful, Doctors, Parent

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