Engineers Quotes - Page 22

• Time is only linear for engineers and referees.

  Craig Ferguson

  Linear, Referee

  Craig Ferguson (2010). “Between the Bridge and the River: A Novel”, p.142, Chronicle Books

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• My ma is an economist. My dad is a software engineer.

  Suraj Sharma

  Dad, Economist, Software

  "Next Factor Q&a: 'Life Of Pi' Star Suraj Sharma". Interview with Kevin Polowy, www.mtv.com. November 21, 2012.

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• The world needs scientists, engineers - and if a brain is qualified to do such work, it should be encouraged, not smothered because it is a female brain.

  Marguerite Rawalt

  Brain, Female, Needs

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• My father has a manufacturing company in Kentucky and he's an electrical engineer. A brilliant man. A brilliant businessman. So he understands the business aspects of my business very well. My dad and I always communicate when I have to negotiate a deal.

  Laura Bell Bundy

  Dad, Father, Men

  "PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Laura Bell Bundy". Interview with Robert Simonson, www.playbill.com. March 13, 2007.

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• Everywhere I go I meet girls and boys who want to be astronauts and explore space, or they love the ocean and want to be oceanographers, or they love animals and want to be zoologists, or they love designing things and want to be engineers. I want to see those same stars in their eyes in 10 years and know they are on their way!

  Sally Ride

  Girl, Stars, Ocean

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• WTO is not the forum for labour standards. Next, the U.S. will argue the time zone difference is an unfair competitive advantage enjoyed by India that enables our software engineers to work while the Americans sleep.

  Jairam Ramesh

  Sleep, Time Zones, Differences

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• The colonists had no library at their disposal; but the engineer was a book which was always at hand, always open at the page which one wanted, a book which answered all their questions, and which they often consulted.

  Jules Verne

  Book, Hands, Library

  Jules Verne (2016). “The Mysterious Island (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.127, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• The Marshall guitar amplifier doesn't just get louder when you turn it up. It distorts the sound to produce a whole range of new harmonics, effectively turning a plucked string instrument into a bowed one. A responsible designer might try to overcome this limitation - probably the engineers at Marshall tried, too. But that sound became the sound of, among others, Jimi Hendrix. That sound is called electric guitar.

  Brian Eno

  Guitar, Trying, Overcoming

  "The revenge of the intuitive" by Brian Eno, www.wired.com. January 1, 1999.

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• We called [the] process photomontage, because it embodied our refusal to play the part of the artist. We regarded ourselves as engineers, and our work as construction: we assembled our work, like a fitter.

  Raoul Hausmann

  Artist, Play, Construction

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• Stalin said artists are the engineers of human souls. I wanted to show what happens to the soul when the engineers get through with it.

  Antonin Kratochvil

  Artist, Soul, Said

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• No scientist, engineer, writer, psychologist, artist, or physician - and certainly no scholar, and therefore no serious university faculty member - pursues his or her vocation by getting right answers from a set of prescribed alternatives that trivialize complexity and ambiguity.

  Leon Botstein

  Artist, Faculty Members, Physicians

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• I was an apprentice television engineer when I decided to pack it up and go full-time, much to my father's disgust. But I'm still interested and I like messing about with TV. I can't deny it ... TV engineering was the job I'd wanted at the time, and I got what I wanted. But in the long-term it would have been second best to being a musician.

  Peter Ham

  Jobs, Father, Engineering

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• I got a degree in math, from not a good school in Texas, and then I went to work as a software engineer. Just not glamorous at all.

  Shane Carruth

  School, Math, Texas

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• The scientist and the artist are both passionate about their exploration. What leads to my work is that I'm equally an artist and an engineer.

  Arthur Ganson

  Artist, Passionate, Exploration

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

  Henry Petroski

  Engineering, Calculations

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• He who designs an unsafe structure or an inoperative machine is a bad Engineer; he who designs them so that they are safe and operative, but needlessly expensive, is a poor Engineer, and … he who does the best work at the lowest cost sooner or later stands at the top of his profession.

  Henry R. Towne

  Work, Design, Doe

  "Shop management; a paper read before the American society of mechanical engineers". Book by F.W. Taylor, New York, Foreword, 1911.

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• A railroad may have to be carried over a gorge or arroya. Obviously it does not need an Engineer to point out that this may be done by filling the chasm with earth, but only a Bridge Engineer is competent to determine whether it is cheaper to do this or to bridge it, and to design the bridge which will safely and most cheaply serve.

  Henry R. Towne

  Bridges, Design, Doe

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• I've recorded at home since I was a teenager, and I'm able to sit here in my underwear and keep trying different things until something works. I think if I did that in a studio the engineer would be like, "What the hell is wrong with you?"

  Mac DeMarco

  Teenager, Home, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My father was an electrical engineer who worked at Westinghouse in Pittsburgh. When I was growing up, my mother wrote humor columns for the local paper. She was the Erma Bombeck of Murrysville, Pa.

  Jason Kilar

  Mother, Growing Up, Father

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• Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he is all. Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Work, Men, Soldier

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.54, Library of America

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• All our engineers are designers and all our designers are engineers.

  James Dyson

  Designer

  "How To Make It" by John Seabrook, www.newyorker.com. September 20, 2010.

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• Abusers are engineers and architects and janitors and police officers and any other walk of life. There's not a job or profession that is exempt.

  Kim Gandy

  Jobs, Police, Architect

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• All we know about the new economic world is that nations which train engineers will prevail over those which train lawyers. No nation has ever sued its way to greatness.

  Richard Lamm

  Greatness, Engineering, World

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• I try to get away from the pits as quickly as I can. I speak to my engineer when I get out of the car, usually there's some press to do, then I will go off and have a shower and get my dry, clean overalls and clothing on. I'll have a massage, stretch and something to eat. I don't sleep, but I try to close my eyes for a while.

  Allan McNish

  Eye, Sleep, Car

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• Thousands of engineers can design bridges, calculate strains and stresses, and draw up specifications for machines, but the great engineer is the man who can tell whether the bridge or the machine should be built at all, where it should be built, and when.

  Eugene Grace

  Stress, Men, Bridges

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