Engineers Quotes - Page 21

• The amateur software engineer is always in search of magic.

  Grady Booch

  Magic, Software

  Grady Booch, Robert Maksimchuk, Michael Engle, Jim Conallen, Kelli Houston (2007). “Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with Applications”, p.339, Pearson Education

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• It is really quite amazing by what margins competent but conservative scientists and engineers can miss the mark, when they start with the preconceived idea that what they are investigating is impossible.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Ideas, Missing, Conservative

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• At SGI board meetings... Jim Clark's face would get red and he'd start shouting that an investor and board member had cheated him and his engineers.

  Michael Lewis

  Entrepreneur, Boards, Red

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• Finding oil is a multidisciplinary science. You need a lot of people - statisticians, engineers, and geologists, of course. And what I have learned in the past 30 years is that I read people better than I read books.

  Eike Batista

  Book, Past, Years

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• My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918.

  James Rainwater

  Father, Epidemics, Influenza

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• I pushed the process forward by saying, 'We should do this, this, and this right now. Please find the budget for me to find a structural engineer, a mechanical engineer, a civil engineer, so we can do the preliminary work.

  Michael Arad

  Process, Should, Please

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• Jay Harman is the quintessential biomimic, a principled inventor who sees solutions everywhere he looks in the natural world. And he looks deeply, with the soul of a student. He moves with grace from a world of waving sea kelp to the world of sustainable design, bringing nature's wisdom into the board rooms of global companies, to the design tables of the engineers and designers who make our world. This is more than a business book, more than a memoir, more than a new way to solve global challenges. It's a book about a new way to think.

  Janine Benyus

  Moving, Book, Thinking

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• The task of the software development team is to engineer the illusion of simplicity.

  Grady Booch

  Team, Simplicity, Tasks

  Grady Booch, Robert Maksimchuk, Michael Engle, Jim Conallen, Kelli Houston (2007). “Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with Applications”, p.40, Pearson Education

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• When you write, produce, engineer and mix everything yourself, it tends to take a long time to do anything. And when you're a perfectionist little monster, it makes it even harder. But it's a blast and I wouldn't trade the opportunity for all the ice cream sandwiches in the universe.

  Adam Young

  Writing, Opportunity, Ice Cream

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• We called [the] process photomontage, because it embodied our refusal to play the part of the artist. We regarded ourselves as engineers, and our work as construction: we assembled our work, like a fitter.

  Raoul Hausmann

  Artist, Play, Construction

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• The Marshall guitar amplifier doesn't just get louder when you turn it up. It distorts the sound to produce a whole range of new harmonics, effectively turning a plucked string instrument into a bowed one. A responsible designer might try to overcome this limitation - probably the engineers at Marshall tried, too. But that sound became the sound of, among others, Jimi Hendrix. That sound is called electric guitar.

  Brian Eno

  Guitar, Trying, Overcoming

  "The revenge of the intuitive" by Brian Eno, www.wired.com. January 1, 1999.

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• Land surveyors can spend as much time reading legislation, bylaws, and engineering documents as we spend in front of an instrument in the field or calculating coordinates for a subdivision. We are mathematicians, historians, project managers, advocates, engineers, and even chainsaw operators!

  Mark Mason

  Reading, Engineering, Land

  "Career Spotlight: What I Do as a Land Surveyor". Interview with Andy Orin, lifehacker.com. December 10, 2015.

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• I became a welder. I was actually becoming an Engineer and I joined the wrong queue. And so I became a welder, without knowing what a welder was.

  Billy Connolly

  Knowing, Becoming, Queues

  "Billy Connolly: An Audience with Billy Connolly". www.imdb.com. 1985.

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• The feeling persists that no one can simultaneously be a respectable writer and understand how a refrigerator works, just as no gentleman wears a brown suit in the city. Colleges may be to blame. English majors are encouraged, I know, to hate chemistry and physics, and to be proud because they are not dull and creepy and humorless and war-oriented like the engineers across the quad. And our most impressive critics have commonly been such English majors, and they are squeamish about technology to this very day. So it is natural for them to despise science fiction.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Hate, War, College

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• Einstein repeatedly argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer.

  Fred Brooks

  Comfort, Arbitrary, Amusing

  "No Silver Bullet". Book by Fred Brooks, 1986.

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• If it weren't for the people always getting tangled up with the machinery... Earth would be an engineer's paradise.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  People, Tangled, Would Be

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• Remember that in 1993 a company with a bad Web site needed an engineer. Today, a company with a bad Web site needs a psychiatrist.

  Philip Greenspun

  Needs, Today, Remember

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• Aeroplanes are not designed by science, but by art in spite of some pretence and humbug to the contrary. I do not mean to suggest that engineering can do without science, on the contrary, it stands on scientific foundations, but there is a big gap between scientific research and the engineering product which has to be bridged by the art of the engineer.

  Walter Guido Vincenti

  Art, Mean, Engineering

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• It's my guess that something like 5% of GDP goes to money management and itsattendant friction. I define it broadly - annuities, incentive pay, all trading, etc. Nobody else has used figures that high, but that's my guess. Worst of all, the people doing this are among the best and the brightest. Hundreds and thousands of engineers, etc. are going into hedge funds and investment banking. That is not an intelligent allocation of the brainpower of the civilization.

  Charlie Munger

  Intelligent, Gdp, Civilization

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• It is the woman who controls the whole house...it's her job, that's what she's supposed to do...We have to change this idea that women are not only supposed to work in the house...but she also has the ability to go outside and do business, to be a doctor, to be a teacher, to be an engineer, she should be allowed to have any job she likes. She should be treated equally, as men are.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Teacher, Jobs, Men

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• Productivity is most important by engineering management rules, but enjoyment is most important for engineers. One stems from the other.

  Rob Pike

  Engineering, Important, Management

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• Spaceflight is nothing less than the exterior metaphor for the shamanic voyage. In other words, in our terms, the hallucinogenic experience. This is the way engineers get high. They go to the moon!

  Terence McKenna

  Moon, Getting High, Voyages

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• I knew I wanted to be a writer. Where I came from, no one was a writer. I came from Long Island, and everyone became a doctor or a lawyer or an engineer or a teacher or a businessman. I didn't know any writers.

  Howard Gordon

  Teacher, Islands, Doctors

  Source: collider.com

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• Some of the best ideas throughout the company's evolution have been from places all throughout the company whether it's an engineer or someone on the customer support team. Just different areas around the company.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Team, Ideas, Support

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• For over a half century now I've watched office obesity develop into a full-blown, crippling disease. As our office clutter mounts, we're ever more intimidated and frustrated by it. We engineer drainage and removal of water and liquid wastes from society to prevent hazardous buildup, but the effluent that pours into our offices-paper-is never flushed out.

  Don Aslett

  Water, Office, Frustrated

  Don Aslett (2004). “The Office Clutter Cure”, p.2, Adams Media

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