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I see myself as a recorder of history, sort of a visual historian. David Burnett
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I look to historians for their power to illuminate not just the invisible lineaments of the present, but also that which is not present. What are the roads that were not taken that most shape our own time? Rick Perlstein
historians
Privatization came on slowly. When something very big happens, like privatization, historians and economists like to think you must have had very big causes. That is not how it happened. Kenneth Baker
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I've said before that I am not a historian and that when it comes to speaking of the dimensions of the Holocaust, it is the historians that should reflect on it. Hassan Rouhani
historian rewriting-history
Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them. George W. Bush
historians human prefer
The whole point about historians is that we are really communing with the dead. It's very restful - because you read. There's some sociopathic problem that makes me prefer it to human interaction. Niall Ferguson
historian millennia worldwide
What strikes the historian surveying anti-Semitism worldwide over more than two millennia is its fundamental irrationality. It seems to make no sense, any more than malaria or meningitis makes sense. Paul Johnson
historian novelist wants
The novelist wants to know how things will turn out; the historian already knows how things turned out, but wants to know why they turned out the way they did. Michael Korda
historian traveling
I'm very excited, especially traveling with the president, who is a historian on Scotland.
engineers needs scientists ultimately
Ultimately Halcyon needs the greatest scientists and engineers in the world to succeed in its mission.
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The only plan professor Barrett has presented was in January, when he proposed that he work with Microsoft engineers to improve the documentation.
engineers founders
Many of those founders were not only engineers but immigrants. Carl Guardino
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None of us have enough engineers to do what we need to do. You get scale on the engineering level by doing alliances and you get scale on the costs.
engineers equipment mention pakistan send soon sort winter
He did not mention it. It's more use for us to send engineers with road-clearing and snow-moving equipment - because it will be winter soon - than that sort of operation, which, to my knowledge, Pakistan has not requested.
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Because they are so humbled by their creations, engineers are naturally conservative in their expectations of technology. They know that the perfect system is the stuff of science fiction, not of engineering fact, and so everything must be treated with respect. Henry Petroski
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The phenomenon was that people who were walking at random, at their own favorite speed, not organized in any way, spontaneously synchronized, ... That's the phenomenon. Why did they all start moving in step? They did it unconsciously. That is what nobody had thought about and engineers did not anticipate. Steven Strogatz
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Fifteen seconds, seems huge to me. We have engineers who say, if you could give me 100 nanoseconds, it would be useful.
engineers fifteen huge seems
Fifteen seconds, seems huge to me, ... We have engineers who say, if you could give me 100 nanoseconds, it would be useful.