#engineer

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So I went for engineering, specifically product design, which I enjoyed.


Debi Thomas


#engineering #enjoyed #i #product #specifically

The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large.


Tim Berners-Lee


#between #both #engineering #large #now

The fewer moving parts, the better." "Exactly. No truer words were ever spoken in the context of engineering.


Christian Cantrell


#funny #humor #mechanical #funny

Indeed, "brute force" solutions are often characteristic of advanced cultures, not primitive ones. The Romans and their predecessors spent a long time figuring out how to build arches... and virtually all our buildings today use post-and-lintel construction, precisely what the arch was devised to replace. We have better materials and more money, and given that, arches are usually not worth the extra complexity.


Henry Spencer


#brute-force #complexity #elegance #engineering #architecture

Trinity’s witnesses responded just as those to Apollo 11 would, as J. Robert Oppenheimer remembered: "We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent." Oppenheimer later said the he beheld his radiant blooming cloud and thought of Hindu scripture: "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." Aloud, however, the physicist made the ultimate engineer comment: "It worked.


Craig Nelson


#engineers #death

When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.


William Gibson


#engineering #psychoanalysis #psychology #design

I could have gone on to be an engineer full time, except that there was more demand for my playing. But the love of working the board never leaves you.


Steve Cropper


#could #demand #engineer #except #full

Leonardo Da Vinci combined art and science and aesthetics and engineering, that kind of unity is needed once again.


Ben Shneiderman


#art #combined #engineering #kind #leonardo

I received my undergraduate degree in engineering in 1939 and a Master of Science degree in mathematical physics in 1941 at Steven Institute of Technology.


Frederick Reines


#degree #engineering #graduate degree #i #institute

The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.


Leonardo da Vinci


#engineering #foot #human #masterpiece #work