Engineers Quotes - Page 4

• Instead of becoming an engineer like my brother, I moved to New York to be an actor.

  Anthony Mackie

  Brother, New York, Actors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The [engineer] should be equipped with knowledge of many branches of study and varied kinds of learning, for it is by his judgement that all work done by the other arts is put to test. This knowledge is the child of practice and theory.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Art, Children, Practice

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter I: "The Education of the Architect", Section 1,

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• If Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t understand something, it’s not defeat. It’s not even something he has to accept. It’s merely a challenge he needs to engineer his way out of, and that includes human emotions and relationships.

  Sarah Lacy

  Zuckerberg, Challenges, Needs

  "The Irony of the Social Media Era: It Was Created By the World’s Least Social People" by Sarah Lacy, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 15, 2012.

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• Our enemy is Al Qaeda and its allies, people who have publicly said they wish to attack the United States again, people who have publicly called on nuclear physicists and engineers to help them gain access to nuclear weapons, which, as the whole world knows, Pakistan has.

  Richard Holbrooke

  People, Enemy, Wish

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• When it came time to find employment, I set my sights on becoming an engineer at a home electronics manufacturer, a field that was closely related to my major at university.

  Koichi Tanaka

  Home, Sight, Employment

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• The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Perfect, Machines

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.83, Harvard University Press

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• They said that the Negro had no initiative; that he was not a business man, but a laborer; that he had not the brain to engineer a corporation, to own and run ships; that he had no knowledge of navigation, therefore the proposition was impossible.
  Oh! ye of little faith. The Eternal has happened.

  Marcus Garvey

  Running, Men, Brain

  Marcus Garvey, Robert A. Hill (1983). “The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers”, p.160, Univ of California Press

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• The production of souls is more important than the production of tanks.... And therefore I raise my glass to you, writers, the engineers of the human soul.

  Joseph Stalin

  Glasses, Soul, Important

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• I started out in engineering. I was a geophysical engineer. Throughout the course of my life I've done a lot of strange jobs, and the effect has been to make me think a little more skeptically about our capitalist society.

  George Saunders

  Jobs, Thinking, Engineering

  "Conversation: George Saunders, Author of ‘Tenth of December’". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. January 18, 2013.

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• I want to be the poster girl for engineers and computer nerds.

  Alessandra Torresani

  Girl, Nerd, Want

  "Alessandra Torresani Gets Inside Caprica's Prime Cylon". Interview with Hugh Hart, www.wired.com. January 21, 2010.

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• When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your D*** lemons, what the h*** am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I'm gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!

  J.K. Simmons

  Men, Who I Am, Giving

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• My dad is a chemical engineer, and my mom was a teacher. They were pretty serious about education, but I always thought about things a little bit differently.

  Aaron Levie

  Mom, Teacher, Dad

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• It always offended me when I was in the studio and the engineer or the assumed producer for the session would start bossing the band around. That always seemed like a horrible insult to me.

  Steve Albini

  Band, Insult, Producers

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• Design is a process - an intimate collaboration between engineers, designers, and clients.

  Henry Dreyfuss

  Inspirational, Teamwork, Design

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• [...] elite social engineers appear to be aiming at a "hetero-homo" world, i.e. where individuals are bisexual, promiscuous and bereft of family.

  Henry Makow

  Bisexual, Eugenics, World

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• My doodles and sketches are not the work of an academic engineer. They represent many years of design study in attempts to produce the best value for money in the field of small car design.

  Alec Issigonis

  Years, Drawing, Car

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• I could have gone on to be an engineer full time, except that there was more demand for my playing. But the love of working the board never leaves you.

  Steve Cropper

  Boards, Gone, Demand

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• From the comfort of distance, [Non resident Indians and Kashmiris] financially and emotionally support ideologies whose consequence they don’t have to face. They are not just a nuisance. As a collective they are dangerous. When men capable of murder receive the affection of engineers and MBAs, it makes them potentially far more lethal.

  Manu Joseph

  Distance, Men, Mba

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• I'm lucky. I don't know whether I'm deserving or not. All I know is that I work damn hard for everything. And God helps those who help themselves. Every day is like an exam. I believe destiny and hard work go hand in hand. I was studying to be an engineer when my mom and my brother sent my pictures for the Miss India contest. I didn't even know about it. If that isn't destiny, what is?

  Priyanka Chopra

  Mom, Brother, Believe

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

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• I am such a gearhead. In my recording studio, I personally engineer and edit everything on computers.

  Tommy Lee

  Computer, Recording Studio, Studios

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• I was coming out of a bar in Manhattan in the rain at night. I felt lonely. Then I thought: there is nothing lonelier than that little guy up there on Mars, never shutting down. And if he's beeping up there, how much lonelier still, that no one can hear it. Still, I like to think the engineers designed him to beep.

  Matthew Rohrer

  Lonely, Rain, Night

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• No place in the US better exemplifies the ethos to engineer new digital technologies than Silicon Valley

  John Maeda

  Technology, Ethos, Valleys

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• 'I will go to France, to Yugoslavia, to China, and continue my profession.' 'As sanitary engineer?' 'No, Monsieur. As adventurer. I will see all the peoples and all the countries of the world.'

  Bruce Chatwin

  Country, Travel, Yugoslavia

  "Anatomy of Restlessness: Selected Writings 1969-1989".

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• An osteopath is only a human engineer, who should understand all the laws governing his engine and thereby master disease.

  Andrew Taylor Still

  Healing, Engineering, Law

  Andrew Taylor Still, George Van O'Linda Webster (1935). “Sage Sayings of Still: Selected from the Writings of Dr. A.T. Still; with a Historical Sketch of Osteopathy and an Appreciation of Dr. Still”

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• They basically ask their engineers to volunteer some probability figures, then they take the average. This is not science. This is voodoo.

  Michio Kaku

  Average, Volunteer, Figures

  "Nuclear-powered NASA craft to zoom by Earth on Tuesday". www.cnn.com. August 16, 1999.

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