Quotes by Engineering Aviation is the branch of engineering that is least forgiving of mistakes. Freeman Dyson engineeringforgivingmistake Every orchid or rose or lizard or snake is the work of a dedicated and skilled breeder. There are thousands of people, amateurs and professionals, who devote their lives to this business. Now imagine what will happen when the tools of genetic engineering become accessible to these people. Freeman Dyson orchidsengineeringsnakes Communication is like the basics of mechanical engineering, the more moving parts you have the more likely it is to break down! Garrison Wynn engineeringcommunicationmoving Man is a creative animal, doomed to strive toward a goal, engaged in full-time engineering. Fyodor Dostoevsky engineeringanimalmen To strive consciously for an object and to engage in engineering -- that is, incessantly and eternally to make new roads, wherever they may lead. Fyodor Dostoevsky engineeringstrivemay Inventing is the resolution of technical contradictions. Genrich Altshuller engineeringresolutioncontradiction Statistics is, or should be, about scientific investigation and how to do it better, but many statisticians believe it is a branch of mathematics. Now I agree that the physicist, the chemist, the engineer, and the statistician can never know too much mathematics, but their objectives should be better physics, better chemistry, better engineering, and in the case of statistics, better scientific investigation. Whether in any given study this implies more or less mathematics is incidental. George E. P. Box engineeringbranchesbelieve The neutrality and clarity of an engineering drawing is a better model for teaching about art than all the uncontrollable drivel about the cabbala and metaphysics and the ecstasy of sainthood. George Grosz engineeringteachingart ...governments, including free and democratic governments, are not really friendly to freedom and democracy. They abhor any rule of law that limits their powers and penchant for social engineering. George Jonas engineeringgovernmentlaw Being smart in the arts is the same as being smart in engineering is the same as being smart in writing is the same as being smart in anything, really. It's the ability to manipulate all the pieces of the puzzle in your mind, try to fit them together, and when they don't fit quite right... you sand the edges/corners and make them all fit. Gerald Jay Sussman engineeringwritingart I started out in engineering. I was a geophysical engineer. Throughout the course of my life I've done a lot of strange jobs, and the effect has been to make me think a little more skeptically about our capitalist society. George Saunders engineeringjobsthinking I use minimal software to make my music - a wav editor and a calculator for my beats to make sure everything falls on mathematical precision. If you were just mapping this out visually, it works by math. I guess it's slightly engineering influenced. Girl Talk engineeringmathfall The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there. Gordon Bell engineeringprogrammingsoftware Sloppy language and sloppy ways go together. Those who are truly educated have learned more than the sciences, the humanities, law, engineering, and the arts. They carry with them a certain polish that marks them as loving the better qualities of life, a culture that adds luster to the mundane world of which they are apart, a patina that puts a quiet glow on what otherwise might be base metal. Gordon B. Hinckley engineeringlawart The first principle of architectural beauty is that the essential lines of a construction be determined by a perfect appropriateness to its use. Gustave Eiffel engineeringperfectscience Ah, bien je prétends que les courbes des quatre areêtes du monument, telles que le calcul les a fournies, donneront une grand impression de force et de beauté. Gustave Eiffel engineeringcurvesthinking The switch from 'steam engines' to 'heat engines' signals the transition from engineering practice to theoretical science. Hans Christian von Baeyer engineeringtransitionpractice There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection. H. G. Wells engineeringironbridges The comic edge of Ghostbusters will always be the same. It's still treating the supernatural with a totally mundane sensibility. In the world of ghostbusting, there are certain givens. You're always going to have some new invented technology, some pseudo-science that sounds right because we drop enough familiar terms from physics and engineering, and pseudo-methodology, something that people will think they may have read something about before. Harold Ramis engineeringtechnologythinking A good sermon is an engineering operation by which a chasm is bridged so that the spiritual goods on one side-the 'unsearchable riches of Christ' - are actually transported into personal lives upon the other. Harry Emerson Fosdick engineeringrichesspiritual«4567891011121314»
