Engineering Quotes - Page 21

• There's a snobbery at work in architecture. The subject is too often treated as a fine art, delicately wrapped in mumbo-jumbo. In reality, it's an all-embracing discipline taking in science, art, maths, engineering, climate, nature, politics, economics.

  Norman Foster

  Art, Math, Reality

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• Software engineering is the establishment and use of sound engineering principles to obtain economically software that is reliable and works on real machines efficiently.

  Friedrich L. Bauer

  Real, Sound, Principles

  "Software Engineering" by Friedrich L. Bauer in "Information Processing: Proceedings of the IFIP Congress, 1971" (p. 71), 1972.

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• Let's also make sure that a high school diploma puts our kids on a path to a good job. Right now, countries like Germany focus on graduating their high school students with the equivalent of a technical degree from one of our community colleges, so that they're ready for a job. At schools like P-TECh in Brooklyn ... students will graduate with a high school diploma and an associate degree in computers or engineering. We need to give every American student opportunities like this.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Jobs, School

  Fourth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 12 February 2013, Washington, D.C.

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• We can change our thinking. Rather than viewing the chemical adulteration of our environment and our bodies as the inevitable practice of convenience and progress, we can decide that cancer is inconvenient and toxic pollution archaic and primitive. We can start seeing the creation of carcinogens as the result of outmoded technologies. We can demand green engineering and green chemistry. We can let our systems of industry and agriculture know that they are suffering from a design flaw.

  Sandra Steingraber

  Cancer, Technology, Thinking

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• Tragically, some people are genetically more susceptible than others to agripoisons and industrial pollutants. Genetic engineering to correct these medical problems is a narrow (reductionistic) and instrumental (mechanistic) response to a problem that is fundamentally conceptual: namely, our attitude toward life and our mistreatment of the Earth, plants, and animals-and ourselves in the process.

  Michael Fox

  Attitude, Animal, Medical Problems

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• There's a bias on hiring the best engineers wherever they come from. It does seem like a lot of the non-engineering execs come from Ivy League schools, as is true in much of corporate America and government.

  Ken Auletta

  School, Government, Ivy

  "Ask the Author Live: Ken Auletta on Sheryl Sandberg". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. July 1, 2011.

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• Challenger was lost because NASA came to believe its own propaganda. The agency's deeply impacted cultural hubris had it that technology-engineering-would always triumph over random disaster if certain rules were followed. The engineers-turned-technocrats could not bring themselves to accept the psychology of machines with abandoning the core principle of their own faith: equations, geometry, and repetition-physical law, precision design, and testing-must defy chaos.

  William E. Burrows

  Believe, Technology, Agency

  William E. Burrows (2010). “This New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age”, p.560, Modern Library

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• No matter that astronauts and cosmonauts had perished in precisely designed and carefully tested machines. Solid engineering could always provide a safety margin, because the engineers believed, there was complete safety in numbers.

  William E. Burrows

  Numbers, Safety, Machines

  William E. Burrows (2010). “This New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age”, p.560, Modern Library

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• I'm an engineer by trade so I've always been interested in engineering and technology but also I've a strong interest in self build and off-grid properties and how it would affect us in terms of lifestyle.

  Andy Griffiths

  Strong, Technology, Self

  Source: www.terrainfirma.co.uk

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• I started [flying] by being scared. When I was an amateur I played a couple tournaments and I had to fly, and got into weather and stuff, and it scared me, and I decided that would not work, I had to learn to fly, I had to find out about airplanes and aeronautical engineering and what it was all about.

  Arnold Palmer

  Couple, Airplane, Weather

  Source: kellysgolfhistory.blogspot.com

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• My father was a master carpenter and builder. Architectural design, engineering design, mechanical design, three-dimensional views, that was my shtick, my forte.

  Bobby Seale

  Father, Views, Design

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• I'm from the generation that's always been recording, from the very beginning. I learned to play the guitar on the four-track. I started listening to music at a time when people were doing recording at home, when the discussion about songwriting correlated to the discussion about producing and engineering. I think that's a description of my generation.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Home, Thinking, Guitar

  Interview with Jason Crock, pitchfork.com. May 15, 2006.

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• I was 21 and had spent the last few years in Stanford University Engineering School at California. Many people advised me to take up a nice, cushy job rather than face the challenges of running a hydrogenated oil business. Looking back, I am glad I decided to take charge instead. Essentially leadership begins from within. It is a small voice that tells you where to go when you feel lost. If you believe in that voice, you believe in yourself.

  Azim Premji

  Inspirational, Running, Jobs

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• Persons who reach the higher rungs in business management, selling, engineering, religious work, writing, acting, and in every other pursuit get there by following conscientiously and continuously a plan for self-development and growth.

  David J. Schwartz

  Religious, Writing, Self

  David J Schwartz (2016). “The Magic of Thinking Big”, p.17, Random House

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• Progress is cumulative in science and engineering, but cyclical in finance.

  James Grant

  Progress, Banking, Finance

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• My grandfather on my mother's side was a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; my other grandfather was a lawyer, and one time Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives.

  Kenneth G. Wilson

  Mother, Technology, House

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• Transhumanism is the ethics and science of using things like biological and genetic engineering to transform our bodies and make us a more powerful species.

  Dan Brown

  Powerful, Body, Ethics

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• Energy Engineering started first in IIT Kharagpur in 1983 and mine was the third batch. It was definitely not a popular course. It was basically an amalgamation of nuclear, mechanical, chemical engineering, etc. But I don't think it was a big factor because if we look, most of them joined the IT sectors and not the energy sector.

  Ramon Magsaysay

  Thinking, Firsts, Etc

  Source: themanipaljournal.com

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• The comic edge of Ghostbusters will always be the same. It's still treating the supernatural with a totally mundane sensibility. In the world of ghostbusting, there are certain givens. You're always going to have some new invented technology, some pseudo-science that sounds right because we drop enough familiar terms from physics and engineering, and pseudo-methodology, something that people will think they may have read something about before.

  Harold Ramis

  Thinking, Technology, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I would say that the evocative qualities of music are usually put there in post-production in the reverb. It's really not much about the musicians as the engineering. It's post-production that's being done by the musician at the time.

  Stephin Merritt

  Quality, Done, Musician

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• I hire people who can do their jobs and who will advise me of things they don't agree with. The worst thing you can do is get in a room with 14 people who say, "OK!" Then you really are making decisions about engineering and finance and other areas.

  Roger Ailes

  Jobs, People, Decision

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• I feel very strongly that history is about everything. It isn't just about politics or the military or social issues. If art, music, engineering, science, medicine, finance, the world of architecture and technology - if those are left out, then you're not getting a full sense of the human condition. History is human and we human beings are involved in all kinds of things and that's part of our humanity.

  David McCullough

  Art, Military, Technology

  Source: belmontvision.com

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• I think people all over the institution recognize that different ways of understanding are valuable. Artists may think in a different way than biologists or chemists, but you can learn something from that. It is true that the arts at MIT don't have the same amount of funding or same status as the sciences or engineering.

  Alan Lightman

  Art, Thinking, People

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. November 16, 2000.

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• I went to a school that's predominantly computer science and engineering. So, there's a real shortage of hot girls, let's say.

  Joe Manganiello

  Girl, Real, School

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Conservatives have a deeper intellect and tend to have occupations of the brain in fields like engineering, science, and economics. Liberals, on the other hand, tend to flock to occupations of the heart.

  Dick Armey

  Heart, Hands, Brain

  "Blair Snitch Project II" by Eric Umansky, www.slate.com. September 25, 2002.

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