Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Fossett

If I have engine trouble, there will be no trouble with gliding,

He's got an engine that just doesn't stop.

Elon Musk

Engineering is the closest thing to magic that exists in the world.

Herbert Hoover

Engineering is a great profession.

Evan Davis

Historically, the British have always been rather wary of grand engineering projects - perhaps understandably, given that many of them have been delivered late and over budget.

His father looked out and saw a turbine engine turning right outside his window.

Before, there weren't a lot of questions about the size of the engine and the gas mileage.

If there are engineers out there looking for jobs, we have the resources.

I heard the engine screaming, a loud explosion and saw big red flames. That was it ... it was total silence.

Henry Ford

It was that engine which took me into automotive transportation.

It will be less expensive to replace the engine than to repair it,

James Stewart

The U.S. is the world's engine of growth and when that splutters we should all be worried,

They just pulled the hose off the engine and doused it with foam.

Greg Biffle

It's frustrating. We didn't have an engine failure all season last year.

David Attenborough

It's lost on me. I can just about tell if it's got a jet engine or one of those funny things on the front!

John Mayer

I scientifically engineer my music to be as accessible as possible.

Noam Chomsky

The social and physical construction of suburban America really was quite complex. It was a very elaborate system, and clearly a massive social engineering project that has changed U.S. society enormously.

Niklaus Wirth

Indeed, the woes of Software Engineering are not due to lack of tools, or proper management, but largely due to lack of sufficient technical competence.

Niklaus Wirth

Good engineering is characterized by gradual, stepwise refinement of products that yields increased performance under given constraints and with given resources.

Kevin Mitnick

Both social engineering and technical attacks played a big part in what I was able to do. It was a hybrid. I used social engineering when it was appropriate, and exploited technical vulnerabilities when it was appropriate.

Kevin Mitnick

The key to social engineering is influencing a person to do something that allows the hacker to gain access to information or your network.

Kevin Mitnick

Social engineering is using manipulation, influence and deception to get a person, a trusted insider within an organization, to comply with a request, and the request is usually to release information or to perform some sort of action item that benefits that attacker.

Leonardo da Vinci

Therefore, O students, study mathematics and do not build without foundations.

Harry S Truman

Everybody is headed for the same place, and they are headed on the same train, and under the same engineer.

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.

Randy Pausch

Engineering isn't about perfect solutions; it's about doing the best you can with limited resources.

Norbert Wiener

There are fields of scientific work...which have been explored from the different sides of pure mathematics, statistics, electrical engineering, and neurophysiology...in which every single notion receives a separate and different name from each group, and in which important work has been triplicated or quadruplicated, while still other important work is delayed by the unavailability in one field of results that may have already become classical in the next field.

Nina Fedoroff

One of the really remarkably beneficial aspects of genetic engineering is that much of the previous methodology for controlling pests and so forth is through chemicals that affect a very broad spectrum of insects, for example, or fungicides that control fungi.

Michio Kaku

What we usually consider as impossible are simply engineering problems... there's no law of physics preventing them.

Michio Kaku

Once confined to fantasy and science fiction, time travel is now simply an engineering problem.