Engineers Quotes - Page 5

• God is the Great Engineer, creating circumstances to bring about moments in our lives of divine importance, leading us to divine appointments

  Oswald Chambers

  Creating, Moments, Divine

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• I've always disliked words like inspiration. Writing is probably like a scientist thinking about some scientific problem, or an engineer about an engineering problem.

  Doris Lessing

  Inspiration, Writing, Thinking

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• Being the most striking manifestation of the art of metal structures by which our engineers have shown in Europe, it [the Eiffel Tower] is one of the most striking of our modern national genius.

  Gustave Eiffel

  Art, Science, Europe

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• To the engineer falls the job of clothing the bare bones of science with life, comfort, and hope.

  Herbert Hoover

  Jobs, Fall, Science

  Herbert Hoover (1952). “Memoirs: Years of adventure, 1874-1920”

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• Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

  Margaret Mead

  Baby, Husband, Children

  Margaret Mead (1975). “Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world”, William Morrow & Co

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• The question of engineering should be of interest not only to those of us who are engineers, but to the entire public which lives in an engineering world

  Karl Taylor Compton

  Engineering, World, Should

  Karl Taylor Compton (1955). “A scientist speaks: excerpts from addresses by Karl Taylor Compton during the years 1930-1949 when he was president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology”

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• Let's face it: Engineering companies in general have more men than women. Google has tried really hard to recruit women. On the other hand, we have a standard. Google tries to recruit the best engineers.

  Susan Wojcicki

  Men, Engineering, Hands

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• My perspective comes in part from being a New York black lady, in part from being an engineer. I know I'm smart and have opinions worth being heard.

  Ursula Burns

  New York, Smart, Perspective

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• One: There is a low limit of weight [of about] 50 pounds beyond which it is impossible for an animal to fly. Two: The animal machine is far more effective than any we can hope to make. Three: The weight of any machine constructed for flying, including fuel and engineer, cannot be less than three or four hundred pounds. Is it not demonstrated that a true flying machine, self-raising, self-sustaining, self-propelling, is physically impossible?

  Joseph LeConte

  Animal, Self, Two

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• Our journeys to the stars will be made on spaceships created by determined, hardworking scientists and engineers applying the principles of science, not aboard flying saucers piloted by little gray aliens from some other dimension.

  Robert A. Baker

  Stars, Journey, Flying

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• Studios are designed to pull out all of that beautiful ambience you get from singing in a room, and then the engineer puts it back in digitally or through whatever machinery you've got.

  Patty Griffin

  Beautiful, Singing, Rooms

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• My dad was an engineer, and he became the CEO of Chevron. His was an engineer's mind-set: Everything's kind of a problem how do you approach the problem?

  Bill Keller

  Dad, Mind, Kind

  "Exclusive Q&A: Bill Keller on Leaving the Times, Fox & More". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. June 2, 2011.

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• Electronic calculators can solve problems which the man who made them cannot solve; but no government-subsidized commission of engineers and physicists could create a worm.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Science, Technology, Men

  1949 The Twelve Seasons,'February'.

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• I was out in the combat engineers. We would throw up bridges in advance of the infantry but mainly we would just throw up.

  Mel Brooks

  Bridges, Infantry, Combat

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• Better biofuels are a really big deal. That means we can precisely engineer the molecules in the fuel chain and optimize them along the way. So, if all goes well, they're going to have designer bugs in warm vats that are eating and digesting sugars to excrete better biofuels. I guess that's better living through bugs.

  John Doerr

  Mean, Ties, Molecules

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• However, the occasional visit of success provides just the excitement an engineer needs to face work the following day.

  Koichi Tanaka

  Success, Needs, Faces

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• A failed structure provides a counterexample to a hypothesis and shows us incontrovertibly what cannot be done, while a structure that stands without incident often conceals whatever lessons or caveats it might hold for the next generation of engineers.

  Henry Petroski

  Engineering, Generations, Done

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• GNOSTICS, n. A sect of philosophers who tried to engineer a fusion between the early Christians and the Platonists. The former would not go into the caucus and the combination failed, greatly to the chagrin of the fusion managers.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Christian, Failure, Fusion

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.97, University of Georgia Press

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• It seems to me that it had no other rationale than to show that we are not simply the country of entertainers, but also that of engineers and builders called from across the world to build bridges, viaducts, stations and major monuments of modern industry, the Eiffel Tower deserves to be treated with consideration.

  Gustave Eiffel

  Country, Science, Bridges

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• More than ever, the world needs good engineers. However, the pool of talent is shrinking not growing.

  Dean Kamen

  Needs, Shrinking, World

  "Segway inventor on future technology - and why videogames aren't it". Interview With Mark Harris, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2009.

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• The very notion that millions of workers displaced by the re-engineering and automation of the agricultural, manufacturing, and service sectors can be retrained to be scientists, engineers, technicians, executives, consultants, teachers, lawyers and the like, and then somehow find the appropriate number of job openings in the very narrow high-tech sector, seems at best a pipe dream, and at worst a delusion.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Dream, Teacher, Jobs

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• We have no right to judge where we should be put, or to have preconceived notions as to what God is fitting us for. God engineers everything; wherever He puts us, our one great aim is to pour out a whole-hearted devotion to Him in that particular work. 'Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.'

  Oswald Chambers

  Hands, Judging, Might

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.62, Discovery House

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• Our job is to show how it is possible to take an illiterate woman and make her into an engineer in six months and show that she can solar-electrify a village.

  Bunker Roy

  Jobs, Six Months, Village

  "Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly" with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. September 19, 2008.

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• If we want scientists and engineers in the future, we should be cultivating the girls as much as the boys.

  Sally Ride

  Girl, Boys, Want

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• Here is a humanist proposition for the age of Google: The processing of information is not the highest aim to which the human spirit can aspire, and neither is competitiveness in a global economy. The character of our society cannot be determined by engineers.

  Leon Wieseltier

  Character, Google, Age

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