Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Pogue

What is innovation if not our ticket to every business interest in the world? Its the ticket to solving the worlds problems - the energy problems, the pollution problems, the global warming problems. If it isnt for science and engineering, how will we compete in the new world?

Carlos Slim

I studied engineering in the national university, the Universidad Autonoma, in San Ildefonso.

Jamie Zawinski

Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.

Chris Bangle

Style is engineering that gives you freedom.

Charlie Munger

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

Anyone with an engineering frame of mind will look at [accounting standards] and want to throw up.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Engineering is too important to wait for science.

Bill Gates

Software will get to be somewhat more mature, ah, but it will never be as predictable as most areas of engineering.

Bill Gates

If you've found some way to educate yourself about engineering, stocks, or whatever it is, good employers will have some type of exam or interview and see a sample of your work.

Charles Caleb Colton

Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive.

Charles Stross

We're currently living with a generation of established novelists who are embarrassingly out of date with respect to social networking, internet skills, and so on.

Brian Eno

The great benefit of computer sequencers is that they remove the issue of skill, and replace it with the issue of judgement

Dave Franco

I don't know if this is an illusion but I would love to be able to take my card-throwing skills and be able to puncture a watermelon. Now I know I can take this question and say, "I would want to solve the economic problems in the world" - but I want to stick that card in that watermelon.

Jasmine Cresswell

dealing with a counter clerk at the phone company who had all the customer service skills of a homicidal sociopath on work release.

Alan Watts

But the transformation of consciousness undertaken in Taoism and Zen is more like the correction of faulty perception or the curing of a disease. It is not an acquisitive process of learning more and more facts or greater and greater skills, but rather an unlearning of wrong habits and opinions. As Lao-tzu said, "The scholar gains every day, but the Taoist loses every day.

Alan Blinder

And the maestro surely wielded the chairman's baton with extraordinary skill. His stellar record suggests that the only right answer to the age-old question of whether it is better to be lucky or good may be: both.

Charlotte Bunch

Leadership is people taking the initiative, carrying things through, having ideas and the imagination to get something started, and exhibiting particular skills in different areas.

Eckhart Tolle

To make money, to gather knowledge, to learn a new skill, to explore new territory, even to get from A to B - for all these things you need time. For almost everything you need time, except for one thing: to embrace the present moment.

Booth Tarkington

Youth cannot imagine romance apart from youth.

David Guterson

There's a certain nostalgia and romance in a place you left.

Caroline B. Cooney

I'll take you to Mickey D's," said Sean. "I'll buy you a hamburger." Annie was not thrilled. Sean's offer did not compare to offers made in other centuries. "And fries," Sean said. "And a vanilla milkshake." Annie remained unthrilled. "Okay, okay. You can have a Big Mac." Romance in my century, she thought, is pitiful.

Jane Austen

She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.

Jane Smiley

I have noticed before that there is a category of acquaintanceship that is not friendship or business or romance, but speculation, fascination.

Charlaine Harris

Life should imitate romance literature far more often.

Charlaine Harris

You are speaking of my future lover. Be more respectful.

Billy Strayhorn

Romance is mush, stifling those who strive.

Bill Nighy

I have nothing against romanticism. I'm all for it. I'm helpless in the face of romance.