Quotes about engineer
engineering gmos people
The present Luddism over genetic engineering may die a natural death as the computer-illiterate generation is superseded.... I fear that, if the green movement's high-amplitude warnings over GMOs turn out to be empty, people will be dangerously disinclined to listen to other and more serious warnings. Richard Dawkins
engineering kansas graduates
After graduating in engineering I went to the University of Kansas to get an MA in economics as a vehicle for allowing me to decide if I wanted to continue in economics. Vernon L. Smith
engineering knowledgeable-person political
If you start from a belief that the most knowledgeable person on earth does not have even one percent of the total knowledge on earth, that shoots down social engineering, economic central planning, judicial activism and innumerable other ambitious notions favored by the political left. Thomas Sowell
engineering imagination important
Engineering is not quite as important as imagination Satoru Iwata
engineering important management
Productivity is most important by engineering management rules, but enjoyment is most important for engineers. One stems from the other. Rob Pike
engineering genius improvement
Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius. William Blake
engineering years opening-up
Problems in human engineering will receive during the coming years the same genius and attention which the nineteenth century gave to the more material forms of engineering. We have laid good foundations for industrial prosperity, now we want to assure the happiness and growth of the workers through vocational education, vocational guidance, and wisely managed employment departments. A great field for industrial experimentation and statemanship is opening up. Thomas A. Edison
engineering programming software
The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there. Gordon Bell
engineering building accusation
For decades engineers have stood accused that their buildings do not have any cultural value. We have attempted to liberate engineering of this accusation. Fritz Todt
engineering magic world
Engineering is the closest thing to magic that exists in the world. Elon Musk
engineering profession
Engineering is a great profession. Herbert Hoover
engineering british given
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. Evan Davis
engineering pilots tests
At that time [1909] the chief engineer was almost always the chief test pilot as well. That had the fortunate result of eliminating poor engineering early in aviation. Igor Sikorsky
engineering orchids snakes
Every orchid or rose or lizard or snake is the work of a dedicated and skilled breeder. There are thousands of people, amateurs and professionals, who devote their lives to this business. Now imagine what will happen when the tools of genetic engineering become accessible to these people. Freeman Dyson
engineering discipline effort
The first step toward the management of disease was replacement of demon theories and humours theories by the germ theory. That very step, the beginning of hope, in itself dashed all hopes of magical solutions. It told workers that progress would be made stepwise, at great effort, and that a persistent, unremitting care would have to be paid to a discipline of cleanliness. So it is with software engineering today. Fred Brooks
engineering hacking reverse
You can do reverse engineering, but you can’t do reverse hacking. Francis Crick
engineer forward heard hit looking people statistics three
I've heard statistics that an engineer will hit three people in a 20-year career, ... I'm not looking forward to the day I do (hit someone), but it's probably inevitable.
engineers incredible involved nascar taken teams
It's incredible what has taken place. I think that's why we see so many competitive teams now, because not only with what NASCAR has done with templates and things, but the engineers we have involved now. Dale Jarrett
engineered model numerous past prevent safety several
Automakers have engineered numerous new safety technologies into SUVs over the past several model years to prevent rollovers.
engineering needs physics
The more physics you have the less engineering you need. Ernest Rutherford
engineering bridges iron
There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection. H. G. Wells
engineering ideas together
Manufacturing is more than just putting parts together. It's coming up with ideas, testing principles and perfecting the engineering, as well as final assembly. James Dyson
engineering boring treated
Engineering is treated with disdain, on the whole. It's considered to be rather boring and irrelevant, yet neither of those is true. James Dyson
engineering years people
Hire inexperience. This year we plan to hire 200 engineers - half of whom are recent grads. Young people are not burdened by years of experience. They haven't learned - or been told - what is right or wrong. With engineering, there is no tried and tested path. You try, and fail, and fix, and fail again. James Dyson
engineering agency creative
[M]anufacturing, science and engineering are ... incredibly creative. I'd venture to say more so than creative advertising agencies and things that are known as the creative industries. James Dyson
engineering design natural
Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it. James Dyson
engineering government long
Engineering undergraduates should not be charged fees. They should receive grants, not student loans, and the government will get the money back long-term from increased exports. James Dyson
engineers train
Everybody is headed for the same place, and they are headed on the same train, and under the same engineer. Harry S Truman
engineering years cost
Inadequate use of usability engineering methods in software development projects have been estimated to cost the US economy about $30 billion per year in lost productivity. Jakob Nielsen
engineering world changing-the-world
Science can amuse and fascinate us all, but it is engineering that changes the world. Isaac Asimov
engineering design progress
The advance of genetic engineering makes it quite conceivable that we will begin to design our own evolutionary progress. Isaac Asimov
engineering bridges islands
He only wishes there were something that would heal the scars in his mind, which he can still feel. He sees his mind now as an archipelago of islands that he labors to build bridges between - and while he's had great success engineering the most spectacular of bridges, he suspects there are some islands that he'll never reach. Neal Shusterman
engineering goal design
What is commonly overlooked in using the computer is the fact that the central goal of design is still to obviate failure, and thus it is critical to identify exactly how a structure may fail. The computer cannot do this by itself . . . Henry Petroski