Engineers Quotes - Page 9

• Physicists dream of Nobel prizes, engineers dream of mishaps.

  Hendrik Tennekes

  Dream, Nobel, Mishaps

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• One hears a lot of talk about the hostility between scientists and engineers. I don't believe in any such thing. In fact I am quite certain it is untrue... There cannot possibly be anything in it because neither side has anything to do with the other.

  David Hilbert

  Believe, Science, Facts

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• A designer must always think about the unfortunate production engineer who will have to manufacture what you have designed; try to understand his problems.

  Raymond Loewy

  Science, Thinking, Understanding

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• We have to be plumbers, electricians, construction engineers, or workers, on the space station, but at the same time running a laboratory, being scientists, being the best laboratory assistants we can be. It's all in a bundle; it's very exciting, it's a lot of fun.

  Thomas Marshburn

  Running, Fun, Space

  "Rocket To ISS Lifts Off With American, Russian, Canadian Astronauts" by Clara Moskowitz, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 19, 2012.

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• Real software engineers don't debug programs, they verify correctness. This process doesn't necessarily involve execution of anything on a computer, except perhaps a Correctness Verification Aid package. Sex without love is an empty experience, but, as empty experiences go, it's one of the best.

  Woody Allen

  Sex, Real, Love Is

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• Scientists study physical things, then describe them; engineers describe physical things, then build them.

  K. Eric Drexler

  Study, Scientist, Physical Things

  K. Eric Drexler (2013). “Radical Abundance: How a Revolution in Nanotechnology Will Change Civilization”, p.28, PublicAffairs

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• Complexity is not a goal. I don't want to be remembered as an engineer of complex systems.

  David Parnas

  Goal, Want, Complexity

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• The "Powers That Be" are not smart enough to engineer Armageddon, but they may yet be stupid enough. If governments are involved in covering up the knowledge of aliens, then they are doing a much better job of it than they seem to do at anything else.

  Stephen Hawking

  Jobs, Smart, Stupid

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• Knowing more about the public effects his work will have, the engineer ought to consider himself an "officer of the court" and keep the general interest always in mind.

  Hyman Rickover

  Knowing, Mind, Court

  Hyman George Rickover (1959). “Education and Freedom”

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• The best engineer a few decades ago was someone who could create the most beautiful beam or structure; today it's to do a structure you cannot see or understand how it's done. It disappears and you can talk only about color, symbols, and light. It's an aesthetic of miracle.

  Jean Nouvel

  Beautiful, Light, Color

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• I don't know if many people realize that Dolph Lundgren is a chemical engineer. He's not a dumb blond guy. This guy is smart and he's a martial artist.

  Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

  Smart, Artist, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My mum brought me to my first job when I was 12. I started electrical work at her plant. She was an engineer, a technical expert, at one of the plants in the south, and in the summer she brought me in and I learnt how industrial things work: casting, electricity, maintenance, everything.

  Oleg Deripaska

  Summer, Jobs, Casting

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• I got out of high school, bought a recording studio and started operating it as an engineer and a producer.

  T Bone Burnett

  School, Producers, Recording Studio

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• Suppose there are some things that we don't understand about the universe, but if you understand human intelligence and you understand the gaps in our abilities to think about things, maybe we can engineer in a computer more advanced intelligences that can help augment our ability to think.

  Edward Boyden

  Thinking, Gaps, Helping

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Facebook, when it began, like Google, was very resistant to advertising. They knew, like all - Mark Zuckerberg, like all good engineers, knew that advertising makes the product worse. But, you know, over time, they've been forced to increase the advertising load more and more and more. And the way they advertise is they - it's subtle but they know everything, you know, about everybody on the site.

  Tim Wu

  Zuckerberg, Google, Way

  Source: www.npr.org

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• We were fortunate at that time we were working with Virgin, and with Flood, probably more well-known as Brian Eno's engineer now and U2's producer, etc. Even though we weren't working in a strictly popular music area, which was great, we were lucky enough to work with people who were on the cusp of those sort of things.

  Stephen Mallinder

  People, Lucky, Etc

  Source: www.artdesigncafe.com

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• One of my favorite things is acting like a speaker or a professor or a CEO of a company and addressing the audience like a group of engineers or designers or marketers.

  Reggie Watts

  Acting, Groups, Favorites Things

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Unfortunately, there's a lack of roles for women of color, so you actually have to be the engineer creating some of those roles.

  Octavia Spencer

  Color, Creating, Roles

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• When it comes to political engagement, I'm not a politician - I'm an engineer.

  Edward Snowden

  Political, Engagement, Politician

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• [Barton ] Gellman printed a great anecdote: he showed two Google engineers a slide that showed how the NSA was doing this, and the engineers "exploded in profanity."

  Edward Snowden

  Two, Nsa, Google

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• To someone like Zurbaran, who paints still lifes, lemons and pears are the objects of art. But to the electronics engineer who works on the technologies of virtual reality, the whole reality has become the object of art, with a possibility to substitute the virtual with the real.

  Paul Virilio

  Art, Real, Technology

  Source: ctheory.net

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• I always thought the women of my age group got short shrift because the women's liberation movement came slightly after. You look at the yearbooks and you see the future homemakers of America - hurray for that - but you also see them in the engineers club. You see minority kids as student body presidents at a time when everyone was supposed to be terminally racist. Yearbooks are genres; they're also folk art, folk documentation.

  Kevin Starr

  Art, Kids, Yearbook

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• I've been a sinner and a saint. If you've been a saint all your life, it's pretty easy to sleep at night. If you've been a sinner, you're just as comfortable in it. I've walked both sides of the fence, and there are times I can't sleep and I wake the engineer up and get it out of me. But it usually doesn't pour all the way out. I have to come back and have the conversation that you usually try not to have with yourself. That's how it gets resolved.

  Killer Mike

  Sleep, Night, Trying

  Source: www.complex.com

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• I consider Les Nourritures Terrestres as a frightening book: "Look for God in no other place than everywhere." Go and tell that to a workman, an engineer!

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Book, Looks, Workmen

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• Coolidge liked the dignity of the presidency. He didn't get on the phone easily. It's possible that he banished the phone from his desk. He was known to use it from time to time. The person who was hilarious with the phone was Hoover. He was a real engineer. He made a closed circuit phone where he could call the important people and they could call him, a government hotline, but it was closed. He shut out the possibility of input from people he didn't expect to get input from.

  Amity Shlaes

  Real, Phones, Government

  Source: www.mikechurch.com

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