#engineer

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The worst thing in the world that can happen to you if you're an engineer that has given his life to something is for someone to rip it off and put their name to it.


Tim Cook


#given #happen #his #life #name

Jobs are disappearing from every sector of the economy, from engineering to health care workers, forcing hundreds of thousands of families into unemployment and low-paying jobs.


Jerry Costello


#disappearing #economy #engineering #every #families

I am going to design... a Station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc.


Isambard K. Brunel


#am #design #engineering #etc #fancy

A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.


Freeman Dyson


#donnas #engineer #engineering #few #good

I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments.


Friedrich August von Hayek


#exaggeration #gain #governments #history #i

We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.


Leon Kass


#doing #engineering #enough #kinds #may

The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.


Lewis Thomas


#about #along #behaviour #cloning #computer

Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.


Larry Wall


#artist #cultural #engineering #good #good art

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


#devices #engineering #imperfection #iron #machinery

There was no room for dust devils in the laws of physics, as least in the rigid form in which they were usually taught. There is a kind of unspoken collusion going on in mainstream science education: you get your competent but bored, insecure and hence stodgy teacher talking to an audience divided between engineering students, who are going to be responsible for making bridges that won’t fall down or airplanes that won’t suddenly plunge vertically into the ground at six hundred miles an hour, and who by definition get sweaty palms and vindictive attitudes when their teacher suddenly veers off track and begins raving about wild and completely nonintuitive phenomena; and physics students, who derive much of their self-esteem from knowing that they are smarter and morally purer than the engineering students, and who by definition don’t want to hear about anything that makes no fucking sense. This collusion results in the professor saying: (something along the lines of) dust is heavier than air, therefore it falls until it hits the ground. That’s all there is to know about dust. The engineers love it because they like their issues dead and crucified like butterflies under glass. The physicists love it because they want to think they understand everything. No one asks difficult questions. And outside the windows, the dust devils continue to gambol across the campus.


Neal Stephenson


#engineering #physics #school #attitude