#engineering

With the advent of genetic engineering the time required for the evolution of new species may literally collapse. ↗

— Dee Hock

#collapse #engineering #evolution #genetic #genetic engineering

There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy. ↗

— John Baldacci

#arts #creative #design #economy #engineering

Crossrail is a prime example of infrastructure. It is a rather deadly word, but I think it is exciting stuff, the civil engineering which makes Britain tick - the bridges, tunnels, power and water networks, which bind us together. ↗

— Evan Davis

#bridges #britain #civil #deadly #engineering

Historically, the British have always been rather wary of grand engineering projects - perhaps understandably, given that many of them have been delivered late and over budget. ↗

— Evan Davis

#been #british #budget #delivered #engineering

I like engineering, but I love the creative input. ↗

— John Dykstra

#creative input #engineering #i #i love #input

I was in school studying civil engineering. A guy approached me on the street and said that I had a interesting look-very exotic. He told me I should try to be in the industry. ↗

— Thuy Trang

#civil #engineering #exotic #guy #had

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 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

I think of it as a good opportunity to let, in particular, school kids know that this job and other interesting jobs in science and engineering are open to anyone who works hard in school and gets a good education and studies math and science. And that it's not just for a select group of people. ↗

— Ellen Ochoa

#education #engineering #gets #good #good education

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