Engineering Quotes - Page 23

• Go for civil engineering, because civil engineering is the branch of engineering which teaches you the most about managing people. Managing people is a skill which is very, very useful and applies almost regardless of what you do.

  John Harvey-Jones

  Skills, People, Branches

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• Spread the truth-the laws of economics are like the laws of engineering. One set of laws works everywhere.

  Lawrence Summers

  Law, Economics, Spread

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• Code reuse is the Holy Grail of Software Engineering.

  Douglas Crockford

  Holy Grail, Reuse, Software

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• Civil Engineering is the art of directing the great sources of Power in Nature for the use and convenience of man; being that practical application of the most important principles of natural Philosophy which has in a considerable degree realized the anticipations of Bacon, and changed the aspect and state of affairs in the whole world. The most important object of Civil Engineering is to improve the means of production and of traffic in states, both for external and internal Trade.

  Thomas Tredgold

  Art, Philosophy, Mean

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• Today when a man gets married he gets a home, a housekeeper, a cook, a cheering squad and another paycheck. When a woman marries, she gets a boarder. To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing that well with one dollar, which any bungler can do with two after a fashion.

  Duke of Wellington

  Fashion, Art, Cheer

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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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• Engineering is a creative practice.

  Cory Arcangel

  Practice, Creative

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Checklists turn out...to be among the basic tools of the quality and productivity revolution in aviation, engineering, construction - in virtually every field combining high risk and complexity. Checklists seem lowly and simplistic, but they help fill in for the gaps in our brains and between our brains.

  Atul Gawande

  Risk, Brain, Quality

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• But the 20th century suffered "two" ideologies that led to genocides. The other one, Marxism, had no use for race, didn't believe in genes and denied that human nature was a meaningful concept. Clearly, it's not an emphasis on genes or evolution that is dangerous. It's the desire to remake humanity by coercive means (eugenics or social engineering) and the belief that humanity advances through a struggle in which superior groups (race or classes) triumph over inferior ones.

  Steven Pinker

  Meaningful, Struggle, Believe

  "Q&A: Steven Pinker of 'Blank Slate'". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. October 30, 2002.

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• Aeroplanes are not designed by science, but by art in spite of some pretence and humbug to the contrary. I do not mean to suggest that engineering can do without science, on the contrary, it stands on scientific foundations, but there is a big gap between scientific research and the engineering product which has to be bridged by the art of the engineer.

  Walter Guido Vincenti

  Art, Mean, Foundation

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• All my days are themed.  Monday is managementTuesday is product, engineering, and design.  Wednesday is marketing, growth, and communications.  Thursday is partnership and developers.  Friday is company and cultureOn the days beginning with T, I start at Twitter in the morning, then go to Square in the afternoon.  Sundays are for strategySaturday is a day off.

  Jack Dorsey

  Friday, Monday, Morning

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• I never studied sculpture, engineering or architecture. In fact, after college I applied to seven art schools and was rejected by all seven.

  Janet Echelman

  Art, School, College

  "Taking imagination seriously". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2011.

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• This is not the internet the world needs, or the internet its creators envisioned. We need to take it back. And by we, I mean the engineering community.

  Bruce Schneier

  Mean, Community, Needs

  "The US government has betrayed the internet. We need to take it back" by Bruce Schneier, www.theguardian.com. September 5, 2013.

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• You go to a technology conference or an engineering conference, there are very few women there. At the same time it's a blessing in the fact that you do get noticed. People tend to remember you as the only woman in the room 'who said that', or the only woman in the room who was an engineer.

  Padmasree Warrior

  Technology, Blessing, Remember You

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• In engineering, as in other creative arts, we must learn to do analysis to support our efforts in synthesis. One cannot build a beautiful and functional bridge without a knowledge of steel and dirt, and a considerable mathematical technique for using this knowledge to compute the properties of structures. Similarly, one cannot build a beautiful computer system without a deep understanding of how to "previsualize" the process generated by the code one writes.

  Gerald Jay Sussman

  Beautiful, Art, Writing

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• Government has ceased to mean upholding and reinforcing the traditional rights and morals of the governed; it now means compulsion in the service of social engineering.

  Joseph Sobran

  Mean, Rights, Government

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• With genetic engineering, we will be able to increase the complexity of our DNA, and improve the human race. But it will be a slow process, because one will have to wait about 18 years to see the effect of changes to the genetic code. By contrast, computers double their speed and memories every 18 months. There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition.

  Stephen Hawking

  Memories, Real, Race

  Interview with Roger Highfield, www.telegraph.co.uk. October 18, 2001.

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• Advertising isnt just the disruption of aesthetics, the insults to your intelligence and the interruption of your train of thought. At every company that sells ads, a significant portion of their engineering team spends their day tuning data mining, writing better code to collect all your personal data.

  Jan Koum

  Team, Writing, Data

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