Quotes by Engineering I have succeeded in getting my actual work down to thirty minutes a day. That leaves me eighteen hours for engineering. Charles Proteus Steinmetz thirtyengineeringhours Proper accounting is like engineering. You need a margin of safety. Thank God we don't design bridges and airplanes the way we do accounting. Charlie Munger engineeringairplanebridges In engineering, people have a big margin of safety. But in the financial world, people don't give a damn about safety. They let it balloon and balloon and balloon. It's aided by false accounting. Charlie Munger engineeringsafetypeople Anyone with an engineering frame of mind will look at [accounting standards] and want to throw up. Charlie Munger engineeringmindlooks Style is engineering that gives you freedom. Chris Bangle engineeringstylegiving The heel is engineering in itself. This little thing that supports the human weight has to have a precise balance. Christian Louboutin engineeringsupportbalance ...there was some kind of connection between the capacity to love and the capacity to love *running*. The engineering was certainly the same: both depended on loosening your grip on your own desires, putting aside what you wanted and appreciating what you've got, being patient and forgiving and... undemanding...maybe we shouldn't be surprised that getting better at one could make you better at the other. Christopher McDougall engineeringcapacity-to-loverunning I reckon that the Bailey Bridge and the bulldozer were the greatest advances in military engineering in the years between World War I and World War II. Christopher Vokes engineeringmilitarywar The first time you do something, it's science. The second time, it's engineering. The third time, it's just being a technician. I'm a scientist. Once I do something, I want to do something else. Clifford Stoll engineeringwantfirsts Engineering is a creative practice. Cory Arcangel engineeringcreativepractice We don’t care about what you did yesterday—we care about what you’re going to do tomorrow. Cory Doctorow engineeringcareyesterday The engineering is secondary to the vision. Cynthia Ozick engineeringvisioninspirational Engineering is a predictive science, not a manipulative art. D. Elton Trueblood engineeringscienceart Transhumanism is the ethics and science of using things like biological and genetic engineering to transform our bodies and make us a more powerful species. Dan Brown engineeringpowerfulbody I do engineering, not religion. Daniel J. Bernstein engineering But I decided I wanted more education and I had to make a choice between starting law school, which was interesting to me, and going for a graduate degree in engineering. Daniel J. Evans engineeringlawschool And then, when I went into the Navy, there was no choice. You took about half of the hours during your naval training as naval courses and the other half were engineering. Daniel J. Evans engineeringtrainingchoices When you're young, you're not afraid of what comes next. You're excited by it. Dave Grohl audioengineeringnext There's an old joke that you know you're in heaven if the cooks are Italian and the engineering is German. If it's the other way around you're in hell. David Byrne engineeringitalianheaven I do quite like Gehry's Guggenheim. But where in Bilbao it's seen as an outgrowth of years of investment in urban design and engineering, in Britain it's seen as the catalyst for urban regeneration rather than the icing on the cake. David Chipperfield engineeringcakeyears«1234567891011»
