Engineering Quotes - Page 12

• I started off in architecture, and I just couldn't fit into the vibe there. I just felt more at home in the Art Department, so I just ended up there. But I would be an architect if it didn't require so much engineering.

  Larkin Grimm

  Art, Home, Would Be

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I studied engineering at MIT. There, the late, great physicist Philip Morrison introduced me to the idea that, in any system, there exists the inevitability that an event will occur which is completely unrelated to anything that preceded it. It completely changed my perception of "impossible."

  Tohoru Masamune

  Ideas, Perception, Events

  "Tohoru Masamune: Pursuing Dreams and Embracing Chaos". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• There are certainly lots of jobs in computer coding, but coding doesn't really require advanced mathematics. And engineering jobs, they vary widely in the amount of demand that we actually need. So, you know, the number of people for whom the job description includes Newton's calculus is not perhaps that high.

  Anya Kamenetz

  Jobs, Numbers, People

  "Some Educators Question If Advanced Math Should Be Required". "All Things Considered" with Kelly Mcevers, www.npr.org. March 3, 2016.

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• What I'm trying to do is bring certain of those engineering values into the design process, such that when you think about form you're already incorporating those performance criteria in the process of the generation of forms.

  Neri Oxman

  Thinking, Design Process, Trying

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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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I am simply pointing out that at the rate at which we are going the whole genetic engineering technology will end up in the hands of the political system to be used for the complete control and subjugation of man.

  U.G. Krishnamurti

  Technology, Men, Hands

  "Mind is a Myth". Book by U. G. Krishnamurti. Ch. 4: There Is Nothing To Understand, 1987.

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• 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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• There are fewer Arabs in Tel Aviv, one of the largest cities in the Middle East, than there are in Chicago, the largest city in the American Midwest. How do you accomplish such a remarkable feat of social engineering without massive violence?

  Max Blumenthal

  Cities, Violence, Middle East

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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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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• Most people don't realize that it's not just minorities who don't do well in science and engineering - quite frankly, you're talking about Americans.

  Freeman A. Hrabowski III

  Educational, Talking, People

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• If geek means you're willing to study things, and if you think science and engineering matter, I plead guilty. If your culture doesn't like geeks, you are in real trouble.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Success, Leadership

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• Enlightened social engineering is required to face situations that demand global action now.

  John Goodlad

  Demand, Faces, Action

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• Enlightened social engineering is required to face situations that demand global action now. Education is a long-term solution. Parents and the general public must be reached also Otherwise, children and youth enrolled in globally oriented programs may find themselves in conflict with values assumed in the home. And then the educational institution frequently comes under scrutiny and must pull back.

  John Goodlad

  Children, Educational, Home

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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

  Way, Firsts, Prototype

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• When I became the NASA administrator — or before I became the NASA administrator — Barack Obama charged me with three things. One was he wanted me to help re-inspire children to want to get into science and math, he wanted me to expand our international relationships, and third, and perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science … and math and engineering.

  Charles Bolden

  Children, Math, Feel Good

  "Does the 'S' In NASA Suddenly Stand for 'Stupid'?" by Dan Gainor, www.foxnews.com. July 07, 2010.

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• Audiophiles don't use their equipment to listen to your music. Audiophiles use your music to listen to their equipment.

  Alan Parsons

  Use, Audio, Equipment

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• Engineering is too important to wait for science.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Waiting, Important

  "Fractal Finance". Yale Economic Review, 2005.

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