Engineers Quotes - Page 6

Does the engineer ever predict the acceleration of a given body from a knowledge of its mass and of the forces acting upon it? Of course. Does the chemist ever measure the mass of an atom by measuring its acceleration in a given field of force? Yes. Does the physicist ever determine the strength of a field by measuring the acceleration of a known mass in that field? Certainly. Why then, should any one of these roles be singled out as the role of Newton's second law of motion? The fact is that it has a variety of roles.

Brian Ellis

Law, Acting, Body

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... the ancient joy of helping the tribe to survive is constantly rekindled in the engineer's heart.

Samuel Florman

Heart, Engineering, Joy

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But remember this, Japanese boy... airplanes are not tools for war. They are not for making money. Airplanes are beautiful dreams. Engineers turn dreams into reality.

Hayao Miyazaki

Beautiful, Dream, War

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Python has been an important part of Google since the beginning, and remains so as the system grows and evolves. Today dozens of Google engineers use Python, and we're looking for more people with skills in this language.

Peter Norvig

Python, Skills, People

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At MakerBot, we joke that if we were engineers we would still be on our first prototype. There's something about just 'Doing it”iteration is a way of engineering.

Bre Pettis

Engineering, Way, Firsts

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When valuing a startup, add $500k for every engineer, and subtract $250k for every MBA.

Aaron Patzer

Mba, Add

"Is Now the Time to Hire MBAs?" by Ben Horowitz, www.businessinsider.com. May 18, 2012.

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And so when I moved to IBM, I moved because I thought I could apply technology. I didn't actually have to do my engineer - I was an electrical engineer, but I could apply it. And that was when I changed. And when I got there, though, I have to say, at the time, I really never felt there was a constraint about being a woman. I really did not.

Ginni Rometty

Technology, Being A Woman, Changed

"IBM's Ginni Rometty: Growth and comfort do not coexist". Fortune Most Powerful Women summit, fortune.com. October 5, 2011.

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God is a hacker, not an engineer

Francis Crick

Inspirational, Hackers

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Our future may look fearfully intimidating, yet we can look up to the Engineer of the Universe, confident that nothing escapes His attention or slips out of the control of those strong hands.

Elisabeth Elliot

Strong, Hands, May

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[In Adelie Land, Antarctica, a howling river of] wind, 50 miles wide, blows off the plateau, month in and month out, at an average velocity of 50 m.p.h. As a source of power this compares favorably with 6,000 tons of water falling every second over Niagara Falls. I will not further anticipate some H. G. Wells of the future who will ring the antarctic with power-producing windmills; but the winds of the Antarctic have to be felt to be believed, and nothing is quite impossible to physicists and engineers.

Frank Debenham

Fall, Blow, Average

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Usability is not everything. If usability engineers designed a nightclub, it would be clean, quiet, brightly lit, with lots of places to sit down, plenty of bartenders, menus written in 18-point sans-serif, and easy-to-find bathrooms. But nobody would be there. They would all be down the street at Coyote Ugly pouring beer on each other.

Joel Spolsky

Beer, Ugly, Coyotes

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Being able to break security doesn't make you a hacker anymore than being able to hotwire cars makes you an automotive engineer.

Eric S. Raymond

Car, Able, Computer

Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.196, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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Writing a class without its contract would be similar to producing an engineering component (electrical circuit, VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) chip, bridge, engine...) without a spec. No professional engineer would even consider the idea.

Bertrand Meyer

Writing, Engineering, Bridges

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The object of universities is not to make skillful lawyers, physicians or engineers. It is to make capable and cultivated human beings

John Stuart Mill

Physicians, Lawyer, University

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My generation's parents told their children, "Become an accountant, a lawyer, or an engineer; that will give you a solid foothold in the middle class." But these jobs are now being sent overseas. So in order to make it today, you have to do work that's hard to outsource, hard to automate.

Daniel H. Pink

Leadership, Jobs, Children

"Oprah Talks to Daniel Pink". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. December 2008.

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Video games are engineered now, but the step I am trying to take, no one can engineer.

Bill Budge

Games, Trying, Video

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The engineer's power was usually limited to a refusal to endorse a given plan, or to the tender of his resignation.

Samuel Florman

Engineering, Refusal, Given

Samuel Florman (2013). “The Existential Pleasures of Engineering”, p.31, Souvenir Press

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All about us the sense of disenchantment with technology appears to be growing. No one ... can ignore the fall of the engineer from the dizzying heights he once occupied... . with the coming of the environmental crisis, our relationship to society has changed. We cannot ... pretend that ... a hundred space spectaculars can restore things to what they were.

Samuel Florman

Fall, Technology, Space

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Beaver do better work than the Corps of Engineers.

Mike Todd

Beavers

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We grow up hearing so often that a straight line is the shortest distance between two points that we end up thinking it is also the best way to get there. A river knows better-:it has to do with how it dissipates the energy of its flow most efficiently; and how, in its bends, the sediment deposited soon turns into marshes and swampy islands, harboring all manner of interesting life, imparting charm and character to the whole waterway. I would defy you to find a river on this planet that prefers to run straight, unless it has been taught so by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Thomas W. Horton

Running, Growing Up, Distance

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She could have dropped you both off. whar's the worst she can do? cry hysterically?"the gears on the ute get stuck at the lights and will pushes tom's hand out of the way and and shoves it into the correct gear."it wasn't her" he mutters after a moment."sorry?" tom says."she didn't cry""then what?"it's too quiet except for the quiet for the crap engine sounding like a lawn mower."i cried"luca bursts out laughing beside will."yeah, well i did" will says. "And it's not the thing you want to do in front of a bunch on engineers.

Melina Marchetta

Sorry, Light, Hands

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Poetry is only secondarily about words. Primarily, it is about truth. I dealt with the Ding an Sich, the substance behind the shadow, weaving powerful concepts, similes, and connections the way an engineer would raise a skyscraper with the whiskered-alloy skeleton being constructed long before the glass and plastic and chromaluminum appears.

Dan Simmons

Truth, Powerful, Skeletons

Dan Simmons (2014). “The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion”, p.239, Spectra

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We need to have people up there who can communicate what it feels like, not just pilots and engineers.

Buzz Aldrin

Space, People, Needs

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Indeed the early history of rocket design could be read as the simple desire to get the rocket to function long enough to give an opportunity to discover where the failure occurred. Most early debacles were so benighted that rocket engineers could have been forgiven for daubing the blood of a virgin goat on the orifice of the firing chamber.

Norman Mailer

Opportunity, Simple, Blood

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If there is a regulation that says you have to do something-whether it be putting in seat belts, catalytic converters, clean air for coal plants, clean water-the first tack that the lawyers use, among others things, and that companies use, is that it's going to drive the electricity bill up, drive the cost of cars up, drive everything up. It repeatedly has been demonstrated that once the engineers start thinking about it, it's actually far less than the original estimates. We should remember that when we hear this again, because you will hear it again.

Steven Chu

Technology, Thinking, Air

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