Engineering Quotes - Page 10

• If you assume continuity, you can open the well-stocked mathematical toolkit of continuous functions and differential equations, the saws and hammers of engineering and physics for the past two centuries (and the foreseeable future).

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Nature, Science, Past

  Benoit B. Mandelbrot, Richard L. Hudson (2010). “The (Mis)Behaviour of Markets: A Fractal View of Risk, Ruin and Reward”, p.86, Profile Books

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• Shipping first time code is like going into debt. A little debt speeds development so long as it is paid back promptly with a rewrite. The danger occurs when the debt is not repaid. Every minute spent on not-quite-right code counts as interest on that debt. Entire engineering organizations can be brought to a standstill under the debt load of an unconsolidated implementation, object-oriented or otherwise.

  Ward Cunningham

  Organization, Long, Development

  "The WyCash Portfolio Management System". OOPSLA conference, c2.com. March 26, 1992.

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• Basically, if reverse engineering is banned, then a lot of the open source community is doomed to fail.

  Jon Lech Johansen

  Community, Failing, Source

  "Meet the kid behind the DVD hack". Interview with J.S. Kelly, www.cnn.com. January 31, 2000.

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• I have run engineering since day one at Oracle, and I still run engineering. I hold meetings every week with the database team, the middle ware team, the applications team. I run engineering and I will do that until the board throws me out of there.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Running, Team

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• If I were 21 years old, I would go into biotechnology or genetic engineering.

  Larry Ellison

  Years, Biotechnology, Ifs

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• Engineering and mixing are absolutely key. Once a song is done, for me personally, it's usually two or three days to get the mix down.

  Dr. Dre

  Song, Keys, Two

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

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• One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it

  David Hilbert

  Work, Math, Science

  Quoted in Howard Eves, Mathematical Circles Revisited (1971)

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• My own duty as a teacher...is not so much to interpret Beethoven, Wagner, or other masters of the past, but to give what encouragement I can to the young musicians of America. I...hope that just as this nation has already surpassed so many others in marvelous inventions and feats of engineering and commerce, and has made an honorable place for itself in literature in one short century, so it must assert itself on the...art of music...To bring about this result, we must trust the very youthful enthusiasm and patriotism of this country.

  Antonin Dvorak

  Country, Teacher, Encouragement

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• It is a simple feat of scientific electrical engineering — only expensive — blind, faint-hearted, doubting world.

  Nikola Tesla

  Simple, Doubt, World

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Nikola Tesla Treasury”, p.514, Simon and Schuster

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• I was relaxing in my parents' swimming pool with my brother, Peter. I asked him how the engineering business was going, and he reciprocated: 'How's the ministry world going?' 'Okay,' I said, 'except that a couple of weeks ago I realized that I don't know why Jesus had to die.' Then Peter, without skipping a beat, without even a moment's hesitation, said, 'Well, neither did Jesus.'

  Brian D. McLaren

  Jesus, Couple, Swimming

  "More Ready Than You Realize: The Power of Everyday Conversations".

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• We are being colonised without New Zealanders having some say in the numbers of people coming in and where they are coming from. This is a deliberate policy of ethnic engineering and re-population.

  Winston Peters

  Numbers, People, Population

  "NZ First's Tough New Immigration Policy". www.scoop.co.nz. May 27, 2005.

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• A professor is one who can speak on any subject - for precisely fifty minutes.

  Norbert Wiener

  Math, Science, Fifty

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• Birds in flight fascinate me. I admire eagles and falcons. I’m inspired by a feather but also its color, its graphics, its weightlessness and its engineering. It’s so elaborate. In fact I try and transpose the beauty of a bird to women.

  Alexander McQueen

  Eagles, Color, Bird

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• Unless you took courses in architecture, engineering, or pre-med, the rest of your liberal arts education hardly prepares you for life as the business warrior and champion you envision yourself to be.

  Gene Simmons

  Inspirational, Art, Warrior

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• Experimental confirmation of a prediction is merely a measurement. An experiment disproving a prediction is a discovery.

  Enrico Fermi

  Science, Discovery, Measurement

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• Techniques such as genetic engineering, psychoactive drugs and electronic control of the brain make possible a transformation of the species into docile, fully-obedient, 'safe' organisms.

  William Sims

  Drug, Brain, Technique

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• I hoping to make it [decision] sometime next week. I love the academics at Tech. I can get a great degree there in engineering. Georgia has the ability to win it all next season. I think I can play early at both schools. It's going to be tough.

  Calvin Johnson

  School, Winning, Thinking

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• To Monsieur Eiffel the Engineer, the brave builder of so gigantic and original a specimen of modern Engineering from one who has the greatest respect and admiration for all Engineers including the Great Engineer the Bon Dieu.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Science, Brave, Admiration

  "The Eiffel Tower". Book by Joseph Harris, April 1975.

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• I still haven't heard anything from Apple about my hacks. There is a tool based on my work reverse-engineering Apple's FairPlay called jhymn that's been hosted on a U.S. server for over a year and nothing has happened.

  Jon Lech Johansen

  Years, Apples, Tools

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• Basically, if I have no intention of using a service then I won't bother reverse-engineering it.

  Jon Lech Johansen

  Intention, Bother, Reverse

  "DVD Jon lands dream job stateside" by Annalee Newitz, www.wired.com. October 18, 2005.

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• If we taught music the way we try to teach engineering, in an unbroken four year course, we could end up with all theory and no music. When we study music, we start to practice from the beginning, and we practice for the entire time.

  Charles Kettering

  Teaching, Years, Practice

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• The neutrality and clarity of an engineering drawing is a better model for teaching about art than all the uncontrollable drivel about the cabbala and metaphysics and the ecstasy of sainthood.

  George Grosz

  Art, Teaching, Drawing

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• The biggest engineering companies, like Schlumberger, Halliburton and others, have technology they spent billions of dollars developing.

  Vagit Alekperov

  Technology, Dollars, Billions

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• Being the first mid-size SUV for the brand, Dodge Nitro had to personify the bold, powerful and street-smart attitude of Dodge. In a world of mostly bland SUVs, the 2007 Dodge Nitro has the design, engineering and performance to inspire consumers and ignite the mid-size SUV market.

  George Murphy

  Powerful, Attitude, Smart

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• I use minimal software to make my music - a wav editor and a calculator for my beats to make sure everything falls on mathematical precision. If you were just mapping this out visually, it works by math. I guess it's slightly engineering influenced.

  Girl Talk

  Fall, Math, Editors

  Source: pitchfork.com

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