Engineers Quotes - Page 5

• (Space programs are) a force operating on educational pipelines that stimulate the formation of scientists, technologists, engineers and mathematicians... They're the ones that make tomorrow come. The foundations of economies... issue forth from investments we make in science and technology.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Educational, Technology, Issues

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• Here is a humanist proposition for the age of Google: The processing of information is not the highest aim to which the human spirit can aspire, and neither is competitiveness in a global economy. The character of our society cannot be determined by engineers.

  Leon Wieseltier

  Character, Google, Age

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• Our job is to show how it is possible to take an illiterate woman and make her into an engineer in six months and show that she can solar-electrify a village.

  Bunker Roy

  Jobs, Six Months, Village

  "Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly" with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. September 19, 2008.

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• We have no right to judge where we should be put, or to have preconceived notions as to what God is fitting us for. God engineers everything; wherever He puts us, our one great aim is to pour out a whole-hearted devotion to Him in that particular work. 'Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.'

  Oswald Chambers

  Hands, Judging, Might

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.62, Discovery House

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• Our future may look fearfully intimidating, yet we can look up to the Engineer of the Universe, confident that nothing escapes His attention or slips out of the control of those strong hands.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Strong, Hands, May

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• [In Adelie Land, Antarctica, a howling river of] wind, 50 miles wide, blows off the plateau, month in and month out, at an average velocity of 50 m.p.h. As a source of power this compares favorably with 6,000 tons of water falling every second over Niagara Falls. I will not further anticipate some H. G. Wells of the future who will ring the antarctic with power-producing windmills; but the winds of the Antarctic have to be felt to be believed, and nothing is quite impossible to physicists and engineers.

  Frank Debenham

  Fall, Blow, Average

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• Poetry is only secondarily about words. Primarily, it is about truth. I dealt with the Ding an Sich, the substance behind the shadow, weaving powerful concepts, similes, and connections the way an engineer would raise a skyscraper with the whiskered-alloy skeleton being constructed long before the glass and plastic and chromaluminum appears.

  Dan Simmons

  Truth, Powerful, Skeletons

  Dan Simmons (2014). “The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion”, p.239, Spectra

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• She could have dropped you both off. whar's the worst she can do? cry hysterically?"the gears on the ute get stuck at the lights and will pushes tom's hand out of the way and and shoves it into the correct gear."it wasn't her" he mutters after a moment."sorry?" tom says."she didn't cry""then what?"it's too quiet except for the quiet for the crap engine sounding like a lawn mower."i cried"luca bursts out laughing beside will."yeah, well i did" will says. "And it's not the thing you want to do in front of a bunch on engineers.

  Melina Marchetta

  Sorry, Light, Hands

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• We grow up hearing so often that a straight line is the shortest distance between two points that we end up thinking it is also the best way to get there. A river knows better-:it has to do with how it dissipates the energy of its flow most efficiently; and how, in its bends, the sediment deposited soon turns into marshes and swampy islands, harboring all manner of interesting life, imparting charm and character to the whole waterway. I would defy you to find a river on this planet that prefers to run straight, unless it has been taught so by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

  Thomas W. Horton

  Running, Growing Up, Distance

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• Video games are engineered now, but the step I am trying to take, no one can engineer.

  Bill Budge

  Games, Trying, Video

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• My generation's parents told their children, "Become an accountant, a lawyer, or an engineer; that will give you a solid foothold in the middle class." But these jobs are now being sent overseas. So in order to make it today, you have to do work that's hard to outsource, hard to automate.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Leadership, Jobs, Children

  "Oprah Talks to Daniel Pink". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. December 2008.

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• The object of universities is not to make skillful lawyers, physicians or engineers. It is to make capable and cultivated human beings

  John Stuart Mill

  Physicians, Lawyer, University

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• Being able to break security doesn't make you a hacker anymore than being able to hotwire cars makes you an automotive engineer.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Car, Able, Computer

  Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.196, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• GNOSTICS, n. A sect of philosophers who tried to engineer a fusion between the early Christians and the Platonists. The former would not go into the caucus and the combination failed, greatly to the chagrin of the fusion managers.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Christian, Failure, Fusion

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.97, University of Georgia Press

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• An osteopath is only a human engineer, who should understand all the laws governing his engine and thereby master disease.

  Andrew Taylor Still

  Healing, Engineering, Law

  Andrew Taylor Still, George Van O'Linda Webster (1935). “Sage Sayings of Still: Selected from the Writings of Dr. A.T. Still; with a Historical Sketch of Osteopathy and an Appreciation of Dr. Still”

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• 'I will go to France, to Yugoslavia, to China, and continue my profession.' 'As sanitary engineer?' 'No, Monsieur. As adventurer. I will see all the peoples and all the countries of the world.'

  Bruce Chatwin

  Country, Travel, Yugoslavia

  "Anatomy of Restlessness: Selected Writings 1969-1989".

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• I was coming out of a bar in Manhattan in the rain at night. I felt lonely. Then I thought: there is nothing lonelier than that little guy up there on Mars, never shutting down. And if he's beeping up there, how much lonelier still, that no one can hear it. Still, I like to think the engineers designed him to beep.

  Matthew Rohrer

  Lonely, Rain, Night

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• I am such a gearhead. In my recording studio, I personally engineer and edit everything on computers.

  Tommy Lee

  Computer, Recording Studio, Studios

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• I could have gone on to be an engineer full time, except that there was more demand for my playing. But the love of working the board never leaves you.

  Steve Cropper

  Boards, Gone, Demand

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• My doodles and sketches are not the work of an academic engineer. They represent many years of design study in attempts to produce the best value for money in the field of small car design.

  Alec Issigonis

  Years, Drawing, Car

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• Being the most striking manifestation of the art of metal structures by which our engineers have shown in Europe, it [the Eiffel Tower] is one of the most striking of our modern national genius.

  Gustave Eiffel

  Art, Science, Europe

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• To the engineer falls the job of clothing the bare bones of science with life, comfort, and hope.

  Herbert Hoover

  Jobs, Fall, Science

  Herbert Hoover (1952). “Memoirs: Years of adventure, 1874-1920”

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• Better biofuels are a really big deal. That means we can precisely engineer the molecules in the fuel chain and optimize them along the way. So, if all goes well, they're going to have designer bugs in warm vats that are eating and digesting sugars to excrete better biofuels. I guess that's better living through bugs.

  John Doerr

  Mean, Ties, Molecules

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• Sir Hiram Maxim is a genuine and typical example of the man of science, romantic, excitable, full of real but somewhat obvious poetry, a little hazy in logic and philosophy, but full of hearty enthusiasm and an honorable simplicity. He is, as he expresses it, "an old and trained engineer," and is like all of the old and trained engineers I have happened to come across, a man who indemnifies himself for the superhuman or inhuman concentration required for physical science by a vague and dangerous romanticism about everything else.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Philosophy, Real, Science

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• If there is a regulation that says you have to do something-whether it be putting in seat belts, catalytic converters, clean air for coal plants, clean water-the first tack that the lawyers use, among others things, and that companies use, is that it's going to drive the electricity bill up, drive the cost of cars up, drive everything up. It repeatedly has been demonstrated that once the engineers start thinking about it, it's actually far less than the original estimates. We should remember that when we hear this again, because you will hear it again.

  Steven Chu

  Technology, Thinking, Air

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