#engineering

Heuristic is an algorithm in a clown suit. It’s less predictable, it’s more fun, and it comes without a 30-day, money-back guarantee. ↗

— Steve McConnell

#software-engineering #money

I’ve always been suspicious of the assumption that great intelligence would be an unqualified benefit— that the madness that so often accompanies it can be cavalierly dismissed. So I asked the question: Suppose there were an entire subpopulation of extreme geniuses, well beyond anything that would occur naturally. What would that really look like? ↗

— Andrew M. Ryan

#nihilism #psychological-thriller #intelligence

Protein engineering is a technology of molecular machines - of molecular machines that are part of replicators - and so it comes from an area that already raises some of the issues that nanotechnology will raise. ↗

— K. Eric Drexler

#area #comes #engineering #issues #machines

I did graduate with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1948. ↗

— Daniel J. Evans

#bachelor #civil #degree #did #engineering

I think I finally chose the graduate degree in engineering primarily because it only took one year and law school took three years, and I felt the pressure of being a little behind - although I was just 22. ↗

— Daniel J. Evans

#although #because #behind #being #chose

I don't know why I always liked aerospace engineering. I was in the 10th grade when I figured that's what I wanted to do. ↗

— Kalpana Chawla

#always #engineering #figured #grade #i

There is no one area of chemical engineering that specifically helped me in my career as an astronaut, it was more the general education in engineering. Also, it was a very difficult and rigorous course. So, it made me strong and resourceful. ↗

— Leroy Chiao

#area #astronaut #career #chemical #course

Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#city #departments #destroy #engineering #landscape

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

It's hard to do that with people who think emotionally. A lot of people think in terms of people, emotions, and feelings. That's more complicated. Engineering mentality makes it, in theory, a little easier. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#easier #emotionally #emotions #engineering #feelings