Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edsger Dijkstra

The required techniques of effective reasoning are pretty formal, but as long as programming is done by people that don't master them, the software crisis will remain with us and will be considered an incurable disease. And you know what incurable diseases do: they invite the quacks and charlatans in, who in this case take the form of Software Engineering gurus.

Atul Gawande

Checklists turn out...to be among the basic tools of the quality and productivity revolution in aviation, engineering, construction - in virtually every field combining high risk and complexity. Checklists seem lowly and simplistic, but they help fill in for the gaps in our brains and between our brains.

Alfred P. Sloan

Advanced engineering always, like advanced everything else, brings down upon it the discredit of ridicule of minds who cannot see so far.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

An engineer cannot participate in irrationality ...

Cynthia Ozick

The engineering is secondary to the vision.

Clifford Stoll

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.

Vandana Shiva

Genetic engineering has never been about saving the world, it's about controlling the world.

Dave Grohl

When you're young, you're not afraid of what comes next. You're excited by it.

David Whyte

For the personality, bankruptcy or failure may be a disaster. For the soul, it may be grist for its strangely joyful mill, and a condition it has been secretly engineering for years.

Bill Crawford

To influence others to change, you must be able to frame that change in terms of the future, and in a way that has value to all concerned.

Carrie Brownstein

I'm interested in the crevices, and the grotesque, and the unsavory. That started out when I was young. I've never quite been able to shake that.

Ashley Tisdale

I've always been able to keep my private life separate from my business.

Ashton Kutcher

There was a point in time where I was doing movies to be able to afford to live in a certain way.

Bill Vaughan

We tried to be as ready and solid as we could be, ... Filmmaking is always some form of chaos, and to what extent you're able to harness the chaos.

Charles Darwin

The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.

Blaise Pascal

All our troubles come from not being able to be alone.

Aziz Ansari

What's cool about Twitter is that you can make a joke about something very of-the-moment or random that I wouldn't be able to joke about in stand-up.

Alan Keyes

That is one of the reasons I oppose this whole Affirmative Action business. We are not supposed to be judged based on what our ancestors did or suffered. We are supposed to be judged as individuals, based on what we are able to achieve.

Carl Rakosi

I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.

Lawrence Krauss

That would give social structures more time to adapt.

Cesar Chavez

Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed.

Carroll Quigley

The basis of social relationships is reciprocity: if you cooperate with others, others will cooperate with you.

Bruce Braley

Increasing the minimum wagewill put billions annually into the Social Security trust fund.

Barbara Mikulski

Politics is social work with power.

Eduardo Paes

You cannot deal with a city if it's not socially integrated.

Le Corbusier

It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of today: architecture or revolution.

Adolf Hitler

Basically National Socialism and Marxism are the same.