Engineering Quotes - Page 24

• 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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• Once confined to fantasy and science fiction, time travel is now simply an engineering problem.

  Michio Kaku

  Fiction, Fantasy, Problem

  'The Super Power IssueA User’s Guide to Time Travel" by Michio Kaku, www.wired.com. August 1, 2003.

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• Law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

  Tom Schulman

  Carpe Diem, Dead Poets Society, Law

  "Dead Poets Society". www.imdb.com. 1989.

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• Art and design are not luxuries, nor somehow incompatible with science and engineering.

  Bran Ferren

  Art, Luxury, Design

  "To create for the ages, let's combine art and engineering". TED conference, www.ted.com. March 2014.

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• Communication is like the basics of mechanical engineering, the more moving parts you have the more likely it is to break down!

  Garrison Wynn

  Moving, Communication, Breaking Down

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• At their best, at their most creative, science and engineering are attributes of liberty-noble expressions of man's God-given right to investigate and explore the universe without fear of social or political or religious reprisals.

  David Sarnoff

  Religious, Science, Men

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• Indeed, the most important part of engineering work-and also of other scientific work-is the determination of the method of attacking the problem, whatever it may be, whether an experimental investigation, or a theoretical calculation. ... It is by the choice of a suitable method of attack, that intricate problems are reduced to simple phenomena, and then easily solved.

  Charles Proteus Steinmetz

  Determination, Science, Simple

  Charles Proteus Steinmetz, Joseph Le Roy Hayden (1917). “Steinmetz Electrical Engineering Library: Engineering mathematics; a series of lectures delivered at Union college (3rd ed. 1917)”

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• Inventing is the resolution of technical contradictions.

  Genrich Altshuller

  Contradiction, Resolution, Inventing

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• Hippocrates is an excellent geometer but a complete fool in everyday affairs.

  Aristotle

  Science, Everyday, Fool

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• The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.

  Aristotle

  Science, Order, Special

  Aristotle (2012). “The Metaphysics”, p.202, Roger Bishop Jones

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• It has been said that the three great develpments in twentieth century science are relativity, quantum mechanics, and chaos. That strikes me the same as saying that the three great developments in twentith century engineering are the airplane, the computer, and the pop-top aluminum can. Chaos and fractals are not even twentieth century ideas: chaos was first observed by Poincare and fractals were familiar to Cantor a century ago, although neither man had the computer at his disposal to show the rest of the world the beauty he was seeing.

  Robert L. Devaney

  Airplane, Men, Discovery

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• I think the greatest curse of American society has been the idea of an easy millennialism -- that some new drug, or the next election or the latest in social engineering will solve everything.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Thinking, Ideas, America

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• Hey, if I had my choice for social engineering, I'd declare an automatic R-rating for any movie that depicts television commercials. There's a truly dangerous influence on our children.

  Marshall Herskovitz

  Children, Television Commercials, Choices

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• PayPal once rejected a candidate who aced all the engineering tests because for fun, the guy said that he liked to play hoops. That single sentence lost him the job.

  Max Levchin

  Jobs, Fun, Play

  Interview with Peter Thiel, gist.github.com. 2012.

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• Let's face it: Engineering companies in general have more men than women. Google has tried really hard to recruit women. On the other hand, we have a standard. Google tries to recruit the best engineers.

  Susan Wojcicki

  Men, Hands, Google

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• Engineering, I think you can pick up. [A data scientist's] curiosity is built-in

  Scott Nicholson

  Thinking, Data, Curiosity

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• I happen to love engineering. I love figuring things out in a spatial sense, that whole realm of working with mechanical parts, and the relationship of the parts, and things like ratios and the speeds of particular objects.

  Arthur Ganson

  Ratios, Speed, Figuring Things

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• In life sciences, we find a reasonable balance between men and women. In engineering and computer science, we have a major problem. A very small percentage of women will be in computer science.

  Freeman A. Hrabowski III

  Men, Balance, Computer

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• Failure is Central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation.

  Henry Petroski

  Engineers, Calculations

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• Engineering is the application of scientific principles toward practical ends. If the engineering isn't practical, it's bad engineering.

  Steve McConnell

  Principles, Ends, Application

  Steve McConnell (1999). “After the Gold Rush: Creating a True Profession of Software Engineering”

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• The present Luddism over genetic engineering may die a natural death as the computer-illiterate generation is superseded.... I fear that, if the green movement's high-amplitude warnings over GMOs turn out to be empty, people will be dangerously disinclined to listen to other and more serious warnings.

  Richard Dawkins

  Gmos, People, Atheism

  Richard Dawkins (2010). “A Devil's Chaplain: Selected Writings”, p.20, Hachette UK

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• Bicycles are pieces of art. You get that combination of kinetic engineering, but then, besides the welds, the paint jobs, the kind of the sculpture of it all is quite beautiful. Bikes have such great lines, and all different styles.

  Robin Williams

  Beautiful, Art, Jobs

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• I was taking chemical engineering. But I went into the army after that. When I came out of the army, I was a different person. I met a lot of good jazz players in the army.

  Mose Allison

  Army, Player, Different

  Interview with Jason Heller, music.avclub.com. April 02, 2010.

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