Engineering Quotes - Page 11

• 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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• Copying is about reverse-engineering.

  Austin Kleon

  Copying, Reverse, Reverse Engineering

  Austin Kleon (2012). “Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative”, p.33, Workman Publishing

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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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• Full employment is a socially hazardous goal. In effect, it aspires to restore through political expedients the pre-industrial state of toil that science, engineering, technology and modern management are pledged to overcome.

  Louis O. Kelso

  Wisdom, Technology, Goal

  Louis O. Kelso, Patricia Hetter Kelso (1967). “Two-factor Theory: the Economics of Reality; how to Turn Eighty Million Workers Into Capitalists on Borrowed Money, and Other Proposals”, New York : Vintage Books

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• The most troublesome problem which confronts social engineering is how to provide for the untalented and, what is equally important, how to provide against them.

  Eric Hoffer

  Important, Problem, Social

  Eric Hoffer (1963). “The Ordeal of Change”

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• Hire inexperience. This year we plan to hire 200 engineers - half of whom are recent grads. Young people are not burdened by years of experience. They haven't learned - or been told - what is right or wrong. With engineering, there is no tried and tested path. You try, and fail, and fix, and fail again.

  James Dyson

  Years, People, Trying

  "Dyson Founder James Dyson On Hiring Inexperience" by Margaret Rhodes, www.fastcompany.com. November 26, 2012.

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• Good engineering is characterized by gradual, stepwise refinement of products that yields increased performance under given constraints and with given resources.

  Niklaus Wirth

  Yield, Resources, Programming

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• Statistics is, or should be, about scientific investigation and how to do it better, but many statisticians believe it is a branch of mathematics. Now I agree that the physicist, the chemist, the engineer, and the statistician can never know too much mathematics, but their objectives should be better physics, better chemistry, better engineering, and in the case of statistics, better scientific investigation. Whether in any given study this implies more or less mathematics is incidental.

  George E. P. Box

  Believe, Branches, Statistics

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• Social Engineering - The art of replacing what works with what sounds good.

  Thomas Sowell

  Art, Sound, Social

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• ...governments, including free and democratic governments, are not really friendly to freedom and democracy. They abhor any rule of law that limits their powers and penchant for social engineering.

  George Jonas

  Government, Law, Democracy

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• Style is engineering that gives you freedom.

  Chris Bangle

  Giving, Style

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• As a young designer explained to me bluntly: "Everyone upstairs is dumb," referring to the floor above the engineering lair at the 156 University office where customer support, administrators and salespeople sat. My first impulse was to laugh at his ridiculous, blithe dismissiveness, until I realized that it wasn't very funny.

  Katherine Losse

  Laughing, Office, Support

  Katherine Losse (2012). “The Boy Kings: A Journey into the Heart of the Social Network”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• There are fields of scientific work...which have been explored from the different sides of pure mathematics, statistics, electrical engineering, and neurophysiology...in which every single notion receives a separate and different name from each group, and in which important work has been triplicated or quadruplicated, while still other important work is delayed by the unavailability in one field of results that may have already become classical in the next field.

  Norbert Wiener

  Names, Important, Groups

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• I had grown up among engineers, and I could remember the engineers of the twenties very well indeed: their open, shining intellects, their free and gentle humor, their agility and breadth of thought, the ease with which they shifted from one engineering field to another, and, for that matter, from technology to social concerns and art. Then, too, they personified good manners and delicacy of taste; well-bred speech that flowed evenly and was free of uncultured words; one of them might play a musical instrument, another dabble in painting; and their faces always bore a spiritual imprint.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Spiritual, Art, Technology

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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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