Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jacque Fresco

Very few people can communicate with one another. The only language that's not subject to interpretation is mathematics, chemistry, basic science, engineering principles, and applied agriculture. But other than that, many systems today are subject to interpretation.

James Grant

Progress is cumulative in science and engineering, but cyclical in finance.

James Gleick

Alphabetical order had to be invented to help people organize the first dictionaries. On the other hand, we may have reached a point where alphabetical order has gone obsolete. Wikipedia is ostensibly in alphabetical order, but, when you think about it, it's not in any order at all. You use a search engine to get into it.

Fernando Alonso

The motivation is even higher than ever this year because we have the number one and two in the team and all the mechanics and engineers are working with much more interest than last year.

A fire engine from the 1940s wouldn't have the same pump power. The tank wouldn't hold as much water. It wouldn't provide as much safety for firefighters as new equipment does.

After I hired several engineers and managers, they read through the equipment manuals. By the time the equipment arrived, they knew all about it. I can't say enough about the work ethic.

So, we just went through a process of trial and error to get it to do what we wanted. Next time, we'll make the engine more fire-like.

As I was turning around to come back. My engine shut off and it ran out of gas.

A student would take a semester off to work for an engineer and gain an understanding of particular companies.

Duane Brown

All of us would be terribly frightened if we had an engine fire, or a serious mechanical problem. People know that it does happen, and it takes no imagination to know that planes do crash.

Charles Dickens

A bill, by the bye, is the most extraordinary locomotive engine that the genius of man ever produced. It would keep on running during the longest lifetime, without ever once stopping of its own accord.

Robert Lamm

A lot of producers will intimidate you or leave it to the engineer when you're in the vocal booth. I'm at my most vulnerable when I'm singing, but he just had a great manner in the studio.

A mechanic walked in front of the engine and was pulled into the engine.

They only have one place in victory lane, and I think it would be better if they were all individually owned. That's not what Jack Roush, my partner in the engine business, would be happy with.

They have about 14 guys we can talk about. Washington runs the engines so quick. He does a great job getting them into their tempo. They're very impressive. It starts with him.

For many marketers, a vertical search engine makes a lot of sense.

They had an engine test they didn't like so they will do another month of testing,

There was a time when having a big, giant engine was sort of in, ... everything is sort of pointing to the fact that if you want a good image, it's better to be efficient.

There's a lot of evaluation going on there with air-fuel mixtures, oil pressures, engine temperatures. That's more important to us than what Kyle thinks right now.

This is broadly in line with my expectations as it shows the main engine of growth, electronics, is holding up very well. I wouldn't to be too worried about pharmaceuticals.

S. Jay Olshansky

We have grown accustomed to the wonders of clean water, indoor plumbing, laser surgery, genetic engineering, artificial joints, replacement body parts, and the much longer lives that accompany them. Yet we should remember that the vast majority of humans ever born died before the age of 10 from an infectious disease.

Steve Jobs

Great engineers are a huge multiplier.

Steve Jobs

The engineering is long gone in most PC companies. In the consumer electronics companies, they don't understand the software parts of it. And so you really can't make the products that you can make at Apple anywhere else right now. Apple's the only company that has everything under one roof.

Temple Grandin

Engineering is easy - it's the people problems that are hard.

Stephen Malkmus

Don't go to the same studio twice, or work with the same engineer twice.

Marc Garneau

I wanted to further my education, so I went on to get a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and came back and served about ten years in the Canadian Navy as what we call a combat systems engineer.

Steve McConnell

Engineering is the application of scientific principles toward practical ends. If the engineering isn't practical, it's bad engineering.

Stephen Hawking

Nuclear weapons need large facilities, but genetic engineering can be done in a small lab. You can't regulate every lab in the world. The danger is that either by accident or design, we create a virus that destroys us.

Steven Pinker

Writers acquire their technique by spotting, savoring, and reverse-engineering examples of good prose.

Steven Pinker

Aggression, like every other part of human behavior we take for granted, is a challenging engineering problem!

Richard Hamming

Put glibly: In science if you know what you are doing you should not be doing it. In engineering if you do not know what you are doing you should not be doing it. Of course, you seldom, if ever, see either pure state.

Richard Hamming

Science is concerned with what is possible while engineering is concerned with choosing, from among the many possible ways, one that meets a number of often poorly stated economic and practical objectives.

Engineers can start with our sample programs, which range from 'Hello World' to a Web server and network connection.