Engineers Quotes - Page 17

We're in an era where the demand is for immediate hits that are destined to become obsolescent. Six months later, everyone forgets the artist and the tune. It's become like a con job. Producers, engineers, lawyers and accountants all make money, but the artists don't.

Tony Bennett

Money, Jobs, Artist

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My father was an engineer, .. But I found out that the film critics for the Stanford Daily got free passes for all the films. So I became first an assistant critic and then the main film critic. Those free passes changed my life.

Roger Corman

Father, Film Critics, Criticism

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You know what I'm talking about. This business has changed. Flyers aren't pilots anymore, they're engineers. This is a college man's game. Our work is done. The pioneering is over.

Frank Wead

College, Men, Talking

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Organization is simply the means by which the acts of ordinary men can be made to add up to extraordinary results. To this idea of progress that does not wait on some lucky break, some chance discovery, or some rare stroke of genius, but instead is achieved through systematic, cumulative effort, the engineer has contributed brilliantly.

William Wickenden

Mean, Men, Discovery

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Don't make me out to be an artist. I am an engineer. I am after the facts, only the facts.

Harold Eugene Edgerton

Artist, Facts

Harold Eugene Edgerton, Estelle Jussim, Gus Kayafas (1987). “Stopping Time: The Photographs of Harold Edgerton”, Harry N Abrams Incorporated

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We normally learn at least as much from our mistakes as we do from our successes. The best development driver/engineer I ever knew once told me that he reckoned that about 20% of his bright ideas worked.

Carroll Smith

Mistake, Ideas, Development

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Hire inexperience. This year we plan to hire 200 engineers - half of whom are recent grads. Young people are not burdened by years of experience. They haven't learned - or been told - what is right or wrong. With engineering, there is no tried and tested path. You try, and fail, and fix, and fail again.

James Dyson

Engineering, Years, People

"Dyson Founder James Dyson On Hiring Inexperience" by Margaret Rhodes, www.fastcompany.com. November 26, 2012.

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In the early days I'd be slaving over a mixing desk. I'm not a recording engineer but I used to mix the record. We used to do it all by ourselves. I just don't really want to do it anymore. I want somebody to do it for me. I want to concentrate on other things. That's been a big change, a learning curve. But no regrets, it's all part of life's rich tapestry.

Stevie Jackson

Regret, Curves, Mixing

"Belle and Sebastian". Interview with Gretta Cohn, pitchfork.com. March 6, 2006.

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The sham engineers of the music industry, who steer the wheels of public opinion, are driving the good features of calypso into the ground. I shudder to think what these greedy men will eventually do to this true art form.

Harry Belafonte

Art, Men, Thinking

New Musical Express Magazine, May 1957.

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The assumption is that people so ignorant and thoughtless and silly and greedy may simply call upon the Army Corps of Engineers in order to receive a clean and abundant supply of water from reservoirs in the mountains. A much likelier outcome is that they will be drinking an ever stronger mixture of sewage and mine acid and mud and cropspray and various other defecations of the industrial paradise.

Wendell Berry

Drinking, Silly, Army

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The important thing is to learn from mistakes - something graduates are adept at. Our graduate engineers are working on new technology - from uncharted applications for our digital motor, to a new take on the hand dryer. With an unhindered mind, nothing is off limits.

James Dyson

Mistake, Technology, Hands

"Dyson Founder James Dyson On Hiring Inexperience" by Margaret Rhodes, www.businessinsider.com. November 26, 2012.

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The Visitors reported by contactees, abductees, and other witnesses may, in fact, be a highly advanced amphibian or reptilian culture from an extraterrestrial world, who evolved into the dominant species on their planet millions of years ago and who have interacted in Earth's evolution as explorers, observers, caretakers, and genetic engineers.

Brad Steiger

Years, Culture, World

Brad Steiger, Sherry Hansen Steiger (2011). “Real Aliens, Space Beings, and Creatures from Other Worlds”, p.67, Visible Ink Press

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Find something that you love to do, and find a place that you really like to do it in. I found something I loved to do. Im a mechanical engineer by training, and I loved it. I still do. My son is a nuclear engineer at MIT, a junior, and I get the same vibe from him. Your work has to be compelling. You spend a lot of time doing it.

Ursula Burns

Son, Training, Nuclear

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Wealth is an engine that can be used for power, if you are an engineer; but to be tied to the fly wheel of an engine is rather a misfortune.

Elbert Hubbard

Wheels, Wealth, Used

Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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In their work, designers often become expert with the device they are designing. Users are often expert at the task they are trying to perform with the device. [...] Professional designers are usually aware of the pitfalls. But most design is not done by professional designers, it is done by engineers, programmers, and managers.

Donald A. Norman

Design, Trying, Pitfalls

"The Design of Everyday Things". Book by Don Norman, ch. 6, 1988.

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The reality is each new day and each project is another opportunity to learn, experiment and try something I haven't done before. I've found that's what keeps me motivated and moving forward - learning new things and challenging myself on a daily basis to improve as a composer, recording engineer, percussionist, guitarist, producer...the list goes on and on!

Jason Graves

Moving Forward, Opportunity, Reality

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I'm grateful to myself and those closest to me me for having given me that non-material base that means I'm a happy man, one who doesn't have to compete or engineer projects he doesn't have his heart in.

George Harrison

Grateful, Heart, Mean

Source: friarparksoulclub.tumblr.com

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If a carpenter makes a chair that's comfortable for the person who's going to sit in it, he's done his job. If a train engineer gets a train in on time, he's going to make someone happy who's waiting at the station. And if an artist draws the kind of a picture that people are going to enjoy looking at, or he makes a visual story which people are going to enjoy reading, he's done his job.

Jack Kirby

Jobs, Reading, Artist

Interview with Gary Groth, www.tcj.com. February 1990.

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It appears that there are enormous differences of opinion as to the probability of a failure with loss of vehicle and of human life. The estimates range from roughly 1 in 100 to 1 in 100,000. The higher figures come from the working engineers, and the very low figures from management.

Richard P. Feynman

Loss, Differences, Safety

Richard P. Feynman (2011). “"What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character”, p.238, W. W. Norton & Company

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I’m discovering that the people that wake up early are really the trendsetters. They are up giving the commands on what the whole world needs to do, so the worker wakes up at 8AM, but the dreamer, the innovator, the creator, the engineer is up at 3 or 4 in the morning making it happen.

Eric Thomas

Morning, Up Early, People

"Daily Word: Happy Holidays!! (You Have to Want Success As Bad As You Want To Breathe!!)". Interview with Ash Cash, allhiphop.com. December 25, 2012.

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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

Engineering, Numbers, Safety

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

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You can lose a reader in a blink of an eye. If a person is an engineer or chemist or an anthropologist or whatever, you spoil the whole book for that person if there's obviously ignorance here. What's wrong with so much science fiction is that the science is so lousy that it isn't worth paying attention to.

Robert Caro

Book, Ignorance, Eye

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In the early days it was fun to fly. You could soar over rooftops and trees, or drop down to meet a passing train and wave at the engineer. The whole sky belonged to you. now there are so many regulations. The sky is crowded. All the fun is gone.

Katherine Stinson

Fun, Sky, Tree

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Yahoo has gone too far in wrongfully accusing us of a conspiracy that doesn't exist. If they are having problems retaining engineers, they should be looking at the internal sources of employee dissatisfaction rather than trying to cover that up with this legal action.

Jonathan Sacks

Trying, Gone, Action

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