#engineer

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One has to look out for engineers - they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb.


Marcel Pagnol


#atomic bomb #begin #bomb #end #engineers

Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty.


Ron Paul


#bureaucrats #congressmen #definition #engineering #federal

Mile tracks put more emphasis on the driver. On the longer tracks, you can drive flat out all the way around, so it's more of an engineering exercise. On a mile, you can't run flat out. You're constantly in traffic, there's more driver involvement.


Buddy Rice


#constantly #drive #driver #emphasis #engineering

The best thing that ever happened to me is that nothing happened in writing. I ended up working for engineering companies, and that's where I found my material, in the everyday struggle between capitalism and grace. Being broke and tired, you don't come home your best self.


George Saunders


#being broke #best #between #broke #capitalism

Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design.


Herbert Simon


#business #concerned #contingent #design #engineering

If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for an equal shot at the starting gate, everyone wins, except for the charlatans and would be dictators.


Ben Stein


#charlatans #dictators #engineer #equal #everyone

My grandfather was an engineer who invented the automatic pilot for airplanes.


Temple Grandin


#engineer #grandfather #invented #pilot #who

You sit there waiting for the RED LIGHT to go on. You could be sitting there for five minutes, waiting, while the producer talks to the engineer. Then the light goes on you know that you mustn't make a mistake for at least 4 minutes.


Jim Sullivan


#engineer #five #go #goes #know

Architecture begins where engineering ends.


Walter Gropius


#begins #ends #engineering #where

I guess the two things I was most interested in were telescopes and steam engines. My father was an engineer on a threshing rig steam engine and I loved the machinery.


Clyde Tombaugh


#engineer #engines #father #guess #i