Engineers Quotes - Page 25

For Dostoevsky, Fourier is one of the industrious ant-hill engineers, busy, protected by the delusion that his goal, the will-ordered society, is the summation of all his desires.

John Carroll

Goal, Desire, Ants

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The colonists had no library at their disposal; but the engineer was a book which was always at hand, always open at the page which one wanted, a book which answered all their questions, and which they often consulted.

Jules Verne

Book, Hands, Library

Jules Verne (2016). “The Mysterious Island (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.127, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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My engineer dad is where my technical acumen comes from. I remember him taking me to the factories to see how what works. Often he used to open up his motorbike to fix things and I saw how the wheels worked. His car used to be open for dissection very regularly. All this taught me and inspired me to look beyond what I could see on the skin.

Bibhu Mohapatra

Dad, Car, Skins

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My ma is an economist. My dad is a software engineer.

Suraj Sharma

Dad, Economist, Software

"Next Factor Q&a: 'Life Of Pi' Star Suraj Sharma". Interview with Kevin Polowy, www.mtv.com. November 21, 2012.

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Computer programmers, biotechnologists, environmental scientists, neuroscientists, nanotech engineers - all of these fields, and more, should have at least a course in ethics as part of their degree requirements.

Jamais Cascio

Should Have, Environmental, Degrees

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Time is only linear for engineers and referees.

Craig Ferguson

Linear, Referee

Craig Ferguson (2010). “Between the Bridge and the River: A Novel”, p.142, Chronicle Books

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Engineering, like poetry, is an attempt to approach perfection. And engineers, like poets, are seldom completely satisfied with their creations. They notice, even if no one else does, the world that is not quite le mot juste, or the hairline crack that blemishes the structure.

Henry Petroski

Engineering, Perfection, Doe

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George Washington was quite a farmer. He was a farmer, Civil Engineer and gentleman. He made enough at civil engineering to indulge in both the other luxuries.

Will Rogers

Engineering, Indulge In, Luxury

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When we hire someone, even if they are going to be in marketing, I will have them talk to the design folks and the engineers.

Steve Jobs

Design, Marketing, Folks

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I come from a pretty scientific family. My sister is a neurologist and my brother is an engineer.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

Brother, My Sister, Neurologists

"Mary Elizabeth Winstead On Set Interview THE THING". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. October 4, 2010.

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When Henry Ford decided to produce his famous V-8 motor, he chose to build an engine with the entire eight cylinders cast in one block, and instructed his engineers to produce a design for the engine. The design was placed on paper, but the engineers agreed, to a man, that it was simply impossible to cast an eight-cylinder engine-block in one piece. Ford replied,''Produce it anyway.

Henry Ford

Block, Men, Eight

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At its core, bitcoin is a smart currency, designed by very forward-thinking engineers. It eliminates the need for banks, gets rid of credit card fees, currency exchange fees, money transfer fees, and reduces the need for lawyers in transitions all good things

Peter Diamandis

Smart, Thinking, Transition

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Ive been an engineer, barman, skip lorry driver, coalman, boat window manufacturer, contract grass cutter and builder.

Neal Asher

Boat, Window, Grass

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The light beyond my eyes flashflashflashes with a hundred futures for me. Doctor. Ship's captain. Forest ranger. Librarian. Beloved of that man or that women or those children or those people who voted for me or who painted my picture. Poet. Acrobat. Engineer. Friend. Guardian. Avenging whirlwind. A million futures--not all pretty, not all long, but all of them mine. I do have a choice" - p. 271

Laurie Halse Anderson

Children, Eye, Men

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The world needs scientists, engineers - and if a brain is qualified to do such work, it should be encouraged, not smothered because it is a female brain.

Marguerite Rawalt

Brain, Female, Needs

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WTO is not the forum for labour standards. Next, the U.S. will argue the time zone difference is an unfair competitive advantage enjoyed by India that enables our software engineers to work while the Americans sleep.

Jairam Ramesh

Sleep, Time Zones, Differences

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The two most important things about people on a revolutionary team are their ability and passion. Their educational level or work experience is meaningless--most of the engineers who did ground-breaking work of the Macintosh design didn't even graduate from college.

Guy Kawasaki

Educational, Team, Passion

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We must win rulers; political, economic, scientific, artistic personalities. They are the engineers of souls. They mold the souls of men. Winning them, you win the people they lead and influence.

Richard Wurmbrand

Christian, Winning, Men

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In general, salary for land surveyors is often similar to that of a professional engineer or lawyer - surveyors are often "comfortable" but not "wealthy."

Mark Mason

Land, Salary, Lawyer

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

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By preventing a free market in education, a handful of social engineers - backed by the industries that profit from compulsory schooling: teacher colleges, textbook publishers, materials suppliers, et al. - have ensured that most of our children will not have an education, even though they may be thoroughly schooled.

John Taylor

Teacher, Children, College

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A civilization built on dualism and war within and between persons, one that puts its most creative minds and its best engineers to sadistic work building more and more destructive weapons, is no civilization at all. It needs a radical transformation from the heart outwards. It needs to outgrow and outlaw war just as in the last century it outlawed slavery. The human race has outgrown war, but it hardly knows it yet.

Matthew Fox

War, Heart, Civilization

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Everywhere I go I meet girls and boys who want to be astronauts and explore space, or they love the ocean and want to be oceanographers, or they love animals and want to be zoologists, or they love designing things and want to be engineers. I want to see those same stars in their eyes in 10 years and know they are on their way!

Sally Ride

Girl, Stars, Ocean

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My father has a manufacturing company in Kentucky and he's an electrical engineer. A brilliant man. A brilliant businessman. So he understands the business aspects of my business very well. My dad and I always communicate when I have to negotiate a deal.

Laura Bell Bundy

Dad, Father, Men

"PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Laura Bell Bundy". Interview with Robert Simonson, www.playbill.com. March 13, 2007.

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But then, Cap'n Crunch in a flake form would be suicidal madness; it would last about as long, when immersed in milk, as snowflakes sifting down into a deep fryer. No, the cereal engineers at General Mills had to find a shape that would minimize surface area, and, as some sort of compromise between the sphere that is dictated by Euclidean geometry and whatever sunken treasure related shapes that the cereal aestheticians were probably clamoring for, they came up with this hard-to-pin-down striated pillow formation.

Neal Stephenson

Suicidal, Cereal, Long

"Cryptonomicon". Book by Neal Stephenson, 1999.

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In a lot of African instruments, you find a rattle, and sound engineers have a hard time making sense of it.

Justin Adams

Hard Times, Sound, Instruments

Source: www.guernicamag.com

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