Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

He kept telling us all game, 'Give me a little time. We'll get there.' He did that. That's Willie. He's the engine that won't stop.

He doesn't have a real big engine behind. He doesn't have a big kick. He's steady, which is why I think the farther he goes the stronger he gets.

Henry Ford was an innovative educator, environmentalist and engineer and therefore his estate is a symbol for UM-D.

William Shakespeare

For 'Tis the sport to have the engineer hoisted with his own petard.

Benjamin Disraeli

He traces the steam engine all the way back to the tea kettle.

I wouldn't go as far as to say Germany is the reform engine of Europe, but it is making slow progress.

Garrett Camp

If you know what you want, you use Google. But if you don't know what you want, and you want to be surprised and find something you didn't expect, we want you come to StumbleUpon. Really, that idea of being a discovery engine versus a search engine.

Henry Petroski

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.

Steven Strogatz

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.

Helio Castroneves

We had some trouble with the engine electronics this afternoon. I still think we're in good shape.

Fifteen seconds, seems huge to me. We have engineers who say, if you could give me 100 nanoseconds, it would be useful.

Fifteen seconds, seems huge to me, ... We have engineers who say, if you could give me 100 nanoseconds, it would be useful.

Fifteen seconds, seems huge to me, ... We have engineers who say, 'If you could give me 100 nanoseconds, it would be useful.'

We weren't a great fit. It took a lot of pain to get an Unreal Engine 2 game to run on the PS2.

Joanna Lumley

Women are very different to men, and that hasn't been respected. So when people say there's never been a good woman painter or poet or engineer or whatever, they don't understand that our skills are many simultaneously and men's skills are single.

We're not keen on the idea of freezing the whole engine. It makes it very impractical for all the engine manufacturers.

Johnny Ball

Women make such excellent scientists and engineers - because of their passion for learning and will-power to succeed. They out-perform the lads in science all the way through school, but somehow are put off engineering and science at a higher level, and that is so very sad.

Elliott Sadler

This track really isn't about the driver, ... This is all about the fab shop and the guys in the engine shop. I can't say enough about how hard my guys work. They gave me a great car.

Vandana Shiva

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

We're trying to engineer out some of the errors. We steal shamelessly from everybody and everywhere that has good training programs.

We kept pressing. We haven't shut the engines off until the last buzzer all season. It worked for us today.

We thought it was out of gas, ... But it wasn't. They started up their engines and started heading toward the port of Miami. They took off like a rocket.

Gary Smith

We think we've got the engines for growth,

There is no need for non-combat engineers to help out in the reconstruction process.

Chris Riddell

I think stories can grow out of the visual. It can be an engine for literacy.

J.D. is sick to his stomach over this. In all their years in NASCAR, they've never had an engine infraction. We'll probably get a fine, but J.D. said he was paying it.

Some of them are just as original as can be, and some of them, people don't know when to quit (with restoration). Even the engine compartments are a lot shinier than a lot of new cars, ... They are operational works of art.

Testing so far this year has gone extremely well. The engine performance is good and the chassis performance has been very strong. We will be going to the first race, Bahrain, in a strong position.

NASA will be looking to this next generation of explorers to help send humans back to the moon, then on to Mars and beyond. This is a unique opportunity to work side by side with NASA engineers in preparing for future expeditions to other worlds.