#engineering

Social engineering is using manipulation, influence and deception to get a person, a trusted insider within an organization, to comply with a request, and the request is usually to release information or to perform some sort of action item that benefits that attacker. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#benefits #comply #deception #engineering #get

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

From here, it becomes an engineering problem; the engineer considers the ground motion that will occur and evaluates the requirements of the proposed structure in the light of the local foundation conditions. ↗

— Charles Francis Richter

#conditions #considers #engineer #engineering #foundation

Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology. ↗

— Karl Popper

#ends #engineering #physical #piecemeal #province

Yeah, I think that his great creation was not any one product but a company in which creativity was connected to great engineering. And that will survive at least while the current people who trained under Steve are there. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

#company #connected #creation #creativity #current

The engineering is long gone in most PC companies. In the consumer electronics companies, they don't understand the software parts of it. And so you really can't make the products that you can make at Apple anywhere else right now. Apple's the only company that has everything under one roof. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#apple #companies #company #consumer #electronics

Basically, if reverse engineering is banned, then a lot of the open source community is doomed to fail. ↗

— Jon Johansen

#basically #community #doomed #engineering #fail

Business ethics has always had problems that are distinct from those of other professions, such as medicine, law, engineering, dentistry, or nursing. ↗

— Peter Singer

#business #dentistry #distinct #engineering #ethics

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

— Debi Thomas

#engineering #enjoyed #i #product #specifically

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

— William Gibson

#engineering #psychoanalysis #psychology #design