Quotes by Engineering Engineering isn't about perfect solutions; it's about doing the best you can with limited resources. Randy Pausch limited-resourcesengineeringperfect Those with engineering skills will build tomorrow's genius computers. But those with the ability to create knowledge of any kind will be the ones who are best able to extract great value from them. The way to create value in the age of genius machines will be to compile and disseminate knowledge that other people will find useful. Ray Kurzweil engineeringskillspeople In Lagos there's a really strong case to resurrect strong parts. Embedded in all of it are some amazing pieces of planning, amazing pieces of engineering and interaction. For instance, the campus of Lagos University is stunningly beautiful, efficient and generous, and that needs to be recognised and preserved. Rem Koolhaas engineeringstrongbeautiful The reason our country looks the way it does is through social engineering that distinctly benefits suburban communities, exurban communities, and often white residents. And we are socially engineered in such a way as to, often unconsciously and unintentionally, but sometimes intentionally, perpetuate this divisive inequality. Richard Benjamin engineeringwhitecountry Liberals say they are for civil liberties and personal freedom, but they continue to advocate government regulation of business, redistribution of wealth, and various forms of social engineering to manipulate human relationships and attitudes. Richard Ebeling engineeringgovernmentattitude Put glibly: Richard Hamming engineeringdoing-youscience Science is concerned with what is possible while engineering is concerned with choosing, from among the many possible ways, one that meets a number of often poorly stated economic and practical objectives. Richard Hamming engineeringnumbersscience 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 engineeringgreatnessworld The machine code of the genes is uncannily computer-like. Apart from differences in jargon, the pages of a molecular biology journal might be interchanged with those of a computer engineering journal. Richard Dawkins molecular-biologyengineeringdifferences Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds. Richard P. Feynman engineeringphilosophyscience 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 gmosengineeringpeople In fact, the science of thermodynamics began with an analysis, by the great engineer Sadi Carnot, of the problem of how to build the best and most efficient engine, and this constitutes one of the few famous cases in which engineering has contributed to fundamental physical theory. Another example that comes to mind is the more recent analysis of information theory by Claude Shannon. These two analyses, incidentally, turn out to be closely related. Richard P. Feynman engineeringmindtwo If we want to postulate a deity capable of engineering all the organized complexity in the world, either instantaneously or by guiding evolution, that deity must have been vastly complex in the first place. The creationist, whether a naive Bible-thumper or an educated bishop, simply postulates an already existing being of prodigious intelligence and complexity. If we are going to allow ourselves the luxury of postulating organized complexity without offering an explanation, we might as well make a job of it and simply postulate the existence of life as we know it! Richard Dawkins engineeringofferingjobs Productivity is most important by engineering management rules, but enjoyment is most important for engineers. One stems from the other. Rob Pike engineeringimportantmanagement I was born into a working class Irish Catholic family at the brutal bottom of the Great Depression. I suppose this early imprinting and conditioning made me a life-long radical. My education was mostly scientific, majoring in electrical engineering and applied math. Those imprints made me a life-long rationalist. I have become increasingly skeptical about, or detached from, the assumption that radicalism and rationalism are the only correct perspectives with which to view life, but they remain my favorite perspectives. Robert Anton Wilson engineeringviewsmath One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null word. Robert A. Heinlein engineeringusamen Most people who sneer at technology would starve to death if the engineering infrastructure were removed. Robert A. Heinlein engineeringtechnologypeople Anything which is physically possible can always be made financially possible; money is a bugaboo of small minds. Robert A. Heinlein engineeringmindinspirational The future is better than the past. Despite the crepe hangers, romanticists, and anti-intellectuals, the world steadily grows better because the human mind, applying itself to environment, makes it better. With hands ... with tools ... with horse sense and science and engineering. Robert A. Heinlein engineeringhorsepast The glory of science is, that it is freeing the soul, breaking the mental manacles, getting the brain out of bondage, giving courage to thought, filling the world with mercy, justice, and joy. 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