Engineering Quotes - Page 22

• 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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• Death is an engineering problem.

  Bart Kosko

  Problem

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• I was this Swedish kid who came over here to study engineering, but I got into movies, and suddenly I'm in this 'Rocky' picture with Sylvester Stallone. And then the movie comes out, and it's a big hit, and I'm famous. Like, world famous. I wasn't thinking of ruling Hollywood; I was thinking of just trying to make it to the next day, trying to figure out what the hell happened.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Kids, Thinking, Next Day

  Source: www.bullz-eye.com

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• Software engineering economics.

  Barry Boehm

  Economics, Software, Software Engineering

  Mingshu Li, Barry Boehm, Leon J. Osterweil (2005). “Unifying the Software Process Spectrum: International Software Process Workshop, SPW 2005, Beijing, China, May 25-27, 2005 Revised Selected Papers”, p.66, Springer Science & Business Media

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• Advanced engineering always, like advanced everything else, brings down upon it the discredit of ridicule of minds who cannot see so far.

  Alfred P. Sloan

  Mind, Ridicule, Discredit

  Alfred P Sloan (2015). “My Years With General Motors”, p.106, eNet Press

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• The first step toward the management of disease was replacement of demon theories and humours theories by the germ theory. That very step, the beginning of hope, in itself dashed all hopes of magical solutions. It told workers that progress would be made stepwise, at great effort, and that a persistent, unremitting care would have to be paid to a discipline of cleanliness. So it is with software engineering today.

  Fred Brooks

  Discipline, Effort, Progress

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• I would staple a green card to the diploma of anyone that graduates with a degree in the physical sciences or engineering in the U.S.

  John Doerr

  Degrees, Cards, Green

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• 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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• I didn't do the engineering, and I didn't do the math, because I thought I
  understood what was going on and I thought I made a good rig. But I was
  wrong. I should have done it.

  Jamie Hyneman

  Math, Should Have, Done

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• The notion that better engineering can solve all our problems is rooted in an ignorance of non-linear systems and selective/wishful thinking.

  Charles Hugh Smith

  Ignorance, Thinking, Problem

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• Proper accounting is like engineering. You need a margin of safety. Thank God we don't design bridges and airplanes the way we do accounting.

  Charlie Munger

  Airplane, Bridges, Safety

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