Quotes about engineering
engineering woe tools
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
engineering yield resources
Good engineering is characterized by gradual, stepwise refinement of products that yields increased performance under given constraints and with given resources.
engineering support balance
The heel is engineering in itself. This little thing that supports the human weight has to have a precise balance. Christian Louboutin
engineering may strive
To strive consciously for an object and to engage in engineering -- that is, incessantly and eternally to make new roads, wherever they may lead. Fyodor Dostoevsky
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
engineering numbers results
I emphasize that virtually every engineering calculation is ultimately a failure calculation, because without a failure criterion against which to measure the calculated result, it is a meaningless number.
engineering calculations engineers
Failure is Central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation.
engineering generations done
A failed structure provides a counterexample to a hypothesis and shows us incontrovertibly what cannot be done, while a structure that stands without incident often conceals whatever lessons or caveats it might hold for the next generation of engineers.
engineering achieve function
Engineering is achieving function while avoiding failure.
engineering perfection doe
Engineering, like poetry, is an attempt to approach perfection. And engineers, like poets, are seldom completely satisfied with their creations. They notice, even if no one else does, the world that is not quite le mot juste, or the hairline crack that blemishes the structure.
engineering iron paris
It seems to be saying perpetually; 'I am the end of the nineteenth century; I am glad they built me of iron; let me rust.' ... It is like a passing fool in a crowd of the University, a buffoon in the hall; for all the things in Paris has made, it alone has neither wits nor soul. Hilaire Belloc
engineering opposites action
For every scientific (or engineering) action, there is an equal and opposite social reaction. Norman Ralph Augustine
engineering law impossible
What we usually consider as impossible are simply engineering problems... there's no law of physics preventing them. Michio Kaku
engineering fiction fantasy
Once confined to fantasy and science fiction, time travel is now simply an engineering problem.
engineering worry mutation
I suspect any worries about genetic engineering may be unnecessary. Genetic mutations have always happened naturally, anyway. James Lovelock
engineering perfect limited-resources
Engineering isn't about perfect solutions; it's about doing the best you can with limited resources. Randy Pausch
engineering important problem
The most troublesome problem which confronts social engineering is how to provide for the untalented and, what is equally important, how to provide against them. Eric Hoffer
engineering agriculture people
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. Jacque Fresco
engineering progress banking
Progress is cumulative in science and engineering, but cyclical in finance. James Grant
engineering names important
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. Norbert Wiener
engineering pests example
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. Nina Fedoroff
engineering cards green
I would staple a green card to the diploma of anyone that graduates with a degree in the physical sciences or engineering in the U.S. John Doerr
engineering mph looks
You had to make a camera look like it's traveling at 300 mph, but you couldn't make it actually travel at 300 mph so you had to slow everything down and build devices to do that. So you were constantly engineering. John Dykstra
engineering creative input
I like engineering, but I love the creative input.
engineering steps finals
It's an ancient and honorable term for the final step in any engineering project. Turn it on, see if it smokes. Lois McMaster Bujold
engineering differences machines
The machine code of the genes is uncannily computer-like. Apart from differences in jargon, the pages of a molecular biology journal might be interchanged with those of a computer engineering journal. Richard Dawkins
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.
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