Engineers Quotes - Page 8

• You never see girls running after engineers.

  Anthony Mackie

  Girl, Running

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Our enemy is Al Qaeda and its allies, people who have publicly said they wish to attack the United States again, people who have publicly called on nuclear physicists and engineers to help them gain access to nuclear weapons, which, as the whole world knows, Pakistan has.

  Richard Holbrooke

  People, Enemy, Wish

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• They said that the Negro had no initiative; that he was not a business man, but a laborer; that he had not the brain to engineer a corporation, to own and run ships; that he had no knowledge of navigation, therefore the proposition was impossible.
  Oh! ye of little faith. The Eternal has happened.

  Marcus Garvey

  Running, Men, Brain

  Marcus Garvey, Robert A. Hill (1983). “The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers”, p.160, Univ of California Press

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• I want studios that make story-based games to start taking their stories more seriously. And that doesn't mean hiring a big shot writer from Hollywood; it means that story becomes integral to making your game. I don't see how you can achieve that without having an in-house writer that sits next to the designer, helping them make their levels, talking with the engineers about where we can tell the story more dynamically, pushing at technology.

  Neil Druckmann

  Mean, Technology, Talking

  Source: za.ign.com

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• I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.

  Walter Isaacson

  Smart, Thinking, Engineering

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• A good engineer thinks in reverse and asks himself about the stylistic consequences of the components and systems he proposes.

  Helmut Jahn

  Thinking, Reverse, Propose

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• I was always a silent comedy nerd. I would stay up late and sneak downstairs to watch 'Saturday Night Live' and 'Kids in the Hall,' and things like that. Very early on, my parents realized that I was not going to be an engineer or a doctor. I just don't have those inclinations, at all.

  Mindy Kaling

  Kids, Night, Doctors

  "Mindy Kaling Talks Acting in and Producing THE MINDY PROJECT, Returning to THE OFFICE, GAME OF THRONES Obsessions and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 30, 2012.

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• A lot of the Google inventions came from engineers just screwing around with ideas. And then management would see them, and we'd say, 'Boy, that's interesting. Let's add some more engineers.'

  Eric Schmidt

  Boys, Ideas, Interesting

  "Google Chairman Eric Schmidt Plays Not My Job". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. May 11, 2013.

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• We worked with the engineers in the design and construction and testing phases in those various areas, then we would get back together at the end of the week and brief each other as to what had gone on.

  Alan Shepard

  Design, Together, Gone

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• The engineer, and more generally the designer, is concerned with how things ought to be - how they ought to be in order to attain goals, and to function.

  Herbert Simon

  Order, Goal, Designer

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• When I was growing up, I installed refrigerators in supermarkets. My father was an electrical engineer.

  Will Smith

  Growing Up, Father, Refrigerators

  "I, Robocop". Interview with Jennifer Hillner, www.wired.com. July 1, 2004.

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• I have been a systems engineer, systems administrator, a senior adviser for the Central Intelligence Agency, a solutions consultant and a telecommunications information systems officer.

  Edward Snowden

  Senior, Agency, Information

  "NSA Leaker Edward Snowden in His Own Words: 'You're Being Watched"'". Interview with Glenn Greenwald, www.truth-out.org. July 04, 2013.

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• The writer is the engineer of the human soul.

  Joseph Stalin

  Soul, Humans, Human Soul

  "Stalin and the Literary Intelligentsia" by А. Kemp-Welch, Basingstoke and London, (pp. 12-31), 1991.

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• If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for an equal shot at the starting gate, everyone wins, except for the charlatans and would be dictators.

  Ben Stein

  Winning, Upset, Trying

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• I think of myself as an engineer, not as a visionary or 'big thinker.' I don't have any lofty goals.

  Linus Torvalds

  Thinking, Goal, Visionaries

  "The Peacemaker" by David Diamond, www.wired.com. July 01, 2003.

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• Forelimbs of people, porpoises, bats and horses provide the classic example of homology in most textbooks. They look different, and do different things, but are built of the same bones. No engineer, starting from scratch each time, would have built such disparate structures from the same parts.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Horse, Time, People

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• Such a system would be very, very expensive and laborious to have, given the kinds of border we have. Scientists and engineers aren't even sure they have the technology to make it work

  Janet Napolitano

  Technology, Immigration, Borders

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• Supporters of this fundamental change in immigration policy say we need to import more well-educated talent if we're to stay competitive. But exactly whose competitiveness are we talking about? Not the competitiveness of, say, American-born computer engineers. Adjusted for inflation, their earnings haven't gone anywhere in years. That's in part because American companies have been sending so much of their high-tech work abroad. Bringing more foreign-born engineers here under an expanded H1-B visa program, or a point system for that matter, will just depress wages even further.

  Ronald Reagan

  Depressing, Talking, Years

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• No engineer can go upon a new work and not find something peculiar, that will demand his careful reflection, and the deliberate consideration of any advice that he may receive; and nothing so fully reveals his incapacity as a pretentious assumption of knowledge, claiming to understand everything.

  John B. Jervis

  Hard Work, Knowledge, Science

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• Dealing with people is probably the biggest problem you face, especially if you are in business. Yes, and that is also true if you are a housewife, architect or engineer.

  Dale Carnegie

  Funny, Success, Business

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.4, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don't have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.

  Bill Joy

  Responsibility, Technology, Today

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• The Sappers really need no tribute from me; their reward lies in the glory of their achievement. The more science intervenes in warfare, the more will be the need for engineers in field armies; in the late war there were never enough Sappers at any time. Their special tasks involved the upkeep and repair of communications; roads, bridges, railways, canals, mine sweeping. The Sappers rose to great heights in World War II and their contribution to victory was beyond all calculations.

  Bernard Law Montgomery

  War, Lying, Communication

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• I have stated it plain, an' my argument's thus ( It's all one, says the Sapper) There's only one Corps which is perfect - that's us; An' they call us Her Majesty's Engineers, With the rank and pay of a Sapper!

  Rudyard Kipling

  Army, Perfect, Sappers

  Rudyard Kipling (2011). “The Seven Seas”, p.99, House of Stratus

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• I done became bigger swervin writin in my peer's lane. Same dudes that used to holla my engineer's name.

  Drake

  Humble, Names, Peers

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• The Chinese are clearly inculcating the idea that science is exciting and important, and that's why they, as a whole-they're graduating four times as many engineers as we are, and that's just happened over the last 20 years.

  Bill Gates

  Science, Years, Ideas

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