E Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with E. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Engineers do engineering, i.e. they build bridges. So engineering needs engineers. The economy does NOT need economists. Economists do not make economy, but they try it and that is why we have so much problems with some financial models.”
“Engineers had not framework for understanding Mandelbrot's description, but mathematicians did. In effect, Mandelbrot was duplicating an abstract construction known as the Cantor set, after the nineteenth-century mathematician Georg Cantor. To make a Cantor set, you start with the interval of numbers from zero to one, represented by a line segment. Then you remove the middle third. That leaves two segments, and you remove the middle third of each (from one-ninth to two-ninths and from seven-ninths to eight-ninths). That leaves four segments, and you remove the middle third of each- and so on to infinity. What remains? A strange "dust" of points, arranged in clusters, infinitely many yet infinitely sparse. Mandelbrot was thinking of transmission errors as a Cantor set arranged in time.”
Source: Chaos: Making a New Science
“Engineers have a very limited education and background, I think you need to move into the broader humanities in order to become a total person.”
“Engineers in the developed world should be arguing not for protectionism but for trade agreements that seek to establish rules that result in a real rise in living standards. This will ensure that outsourcing is a positive force in the developing nations economy and not an exploitative one.”
“Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.”
Source: The Dilbert principle: a cubicle's-eye view of bosses, meetings, management fads & other workplace afflictions
“Engineers - making the world a better, safer, happier place.”
Source: Waterborne
“Engineers use knowledge primarily to design, produce, and operate artifacts. ... Scientists, by contrast, use knowledge primarily to generate more knowledge.”
“Engineers, medical people, scientific people, have an obsession with solving the problems of reality, when actually ... once you reach a basic level of wealth in society, most problems are actually problems of perception.”
“Engkau boleh saja membual tentang kaki telanjangmu
Yang telah menempuh jutaan mil.
Gaya kupu-kupu mu yang mengarungi laut penuh hiu,
Atau kebolehanmu memanjat tebing-tebing terjal
Dengan sepotong tali terikat di pinggangmu.
Namun jika kau tak pernah menjelajah ke dalam batinmu sendiri,
Engkau bagaikan tak pernah pergi ke mana pun.”
Source: Romantic Journey: Notebook of a Traveller
“Engkau duduk disampingku, dan aku perkuat bahu kananku untuk kau bersandar..”
“engkau laksana sajak yang tak kunjung selesai. dengan begitu saya tidak akan pernah meninggalkanmu”
“Engkau membawa pulang hanyir lumpur
ke teratak nasibmu yang bocor
engkau letakkannya ke dalam
tempayan duka keluargamu
yang digegar halilintar penderitaan.
(Dukamu: Nelayan, Petani dan Penoreh)”
“Engkau membawa pulang keruh air
ke jemuran nasibmu yang berlendir
engkau letakannya ke dalam
cawan nestapa keluargamu
yang dibelah petir kesengsaraan.
(Dukamu: Nelayan, Petani dan Penoreh)”
“Engkau mesti sedar, sebaik-baik mengikis kolonialisme dalam apa bentuk jua, bukan dengan menunjukkan kesalahan musuh, tapi dengan kekuatan menolaknya.”
Source: Mata Di Jendela
“Engkau, “Sedang apa gerangan?” Coba mengingat atau melupa, tak ada beda. Keduanya cuma sesayat luka, atau suka? Tak ada beda.”
“Engkau tidak takut sekian lama tinggal sendirian? Engkau tidak pernah kesepian?
Oh, tidak. Mungkin malah sepi yang takut dengan kesendirianku.”
Source: Telepon Genggam
“engkaulah arakan awan-awan yang menjatuhkan hujan kesejukan
akulah yang senantiasa menyimpan rintiknya
mengalirkannya kedalam anak-anak sungai jiwa yang tenang”
“England [sic] is just a small island. Its roads and houses are small. With few exceptions, it doesn't make things that people in the rest of the world want to buy. And if it hadn't been separated from the continent by water, it almost certainly would have been lost to Hitler's ambitions.”
“England a fortune-telling host, As num'rous as the stars, could boast; Matrons, who toss the cup, and see The grounds of Fate in grounds of tea.”
Source: Poems ...: In Two Volumes
“England and all civilised nations stand in deadly peril of not having enough to eat. As mouths multiply, food resources dwindle. Land is a limited quantity, and the land that will grow wheat is absolutely dependent on difficult and capricious natural phenomena... I hope to point a way out of the colossal dilemma. It is the chemist who must come to the rescue of the threatened communities. It is through the laboratory that starvation may ultimately be turned into plenty... The fixation of atmospheric nitrogen is one of the great discoveries, awaiting the genius of chemists.”
“England and America are two countries separated by the same language.”
“England and America owe their liberty to commerce, which created a new species of power to undermine the feudal system. But let them beware of the consequences: the tyranny of wealth is still more galling and debasing than that of rank.”
Source: Letters Written During A Short Residence In Sweden, Norway And Denmark
“England and America should scrap cricket and baseball and come up with a new game that they both can play. Like baseball, for example.”
“England and France were rivals, not only on the continent, but in the West Indies, in India, and in Europe.”
Source: Epochs of American History
“England and Greece are friends. English blood was shed on Greek soil in the war against fascism, and Greeks gave their lives to protect English pilots.”
“England and Ireland may flourish together. The world is large enough for both of us. Let it be our care not to make ourselves too little for it.”
Source: Selected Letters of Edmund Burke
“England and the English governing class never did call on this absurd deity of race until it seemed, for an instant, that they had no other god to call on… the truth of the whole matter is very simple. Nationality exists, and has nothing in the world to do with race. Nationality is a thing like a church or a secret society. It is the product of the human soul and will; it is a spiritual product. And there are men… who would think anything and do anything rather than admit anything could be a spiritual product.”
“England and the United States are natural allies, and should be the best of friends.”
Source: Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant
“England are learning to walk before they can run with their feet nailed firmly to the ground.”
“England are looking better value for 0-0.”
“England are numerically outnumbered in the midfield.”
“England are playing fantastic cricket at the moment, they have a great team and I know all the Aussies are looking forward to getting over there. We'll be doing everything in our power to get over there and win every game if possible.”
“England are very light up front. Eriksson's decision not to include Jermaine Defoe can be declared an error of judgment, regardless of Rooney's situation. The Swede should have forgone one of his nine midfield players; much will have to go wrong for Jermaine Jenas to get a game.”
“England as a culture has endured so much more than America has as a culture, so it's given them a different perspective.”
“England can end the millenium as it started - as the greatest football nation in the world.”
“England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.”
“England did nothing in that World Cup, so why were they bringing books out? 'We got beat in the quarter-finals. I played like s**t. Here's my book.'”
“England does not love coalitions.”
“England expects every man to do his duty”
“England expects that every man will do his duty.”
Source: The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson
“England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.”
Source: Maurice
“England has an interesting relationship with the Indian subcontinent because the years of colonization and the history between the two places.”
“England has been offered a choice between war and shame. She has chosen shame and will get war.”
“England has been praised for turning out intelligent, adult pictures whereas Hollywood has been severely censured for turning out junk. I don't think criticism is a valid one because, in defense of Hollywood, we have censorship problems England doesn't have. I'm not speaking of the license to do sexy stuff. I'm speaking of the license to present adult ideas and viewpoints, which we lack and which means in turn that many of our pictures lack intelligent content.”
“England has forty-two religions and only two sauces.”
“England has had a lot of really bad periods of music, but it's had several amazing periods where they've found an incredible balance, not just between music that's a rather complex and also pretty direct. Like the Beatles.”
“England has her Stratford, Scotland has her Alloway, and America, too, has her Dresden. For there, on August 11, 1833, was born the greatest and noblest of the Western World; an immense personality, -- unique, lovable, sublime; the peerless orator of all time, and as true a poet as Nature ever held in tender clasp upon her loving breast, and, in words coined for the chosen few, told of the joys and sorrows, hopes, dreams, and fears of universal life; a patriot whose golden words and deathless deeds were worthy of the Great Republic; a philanthropist, real and genuine; a philosopher whose central theme was human love, -- who placed 'the holy hearth of home' higher than the altar of any god; an iconoclast, a builder -- a reformer, perfectly poised, absolutely honest, and as fearless as truth itself -- the most aggressive and formidable foe of superstition -- the most valiant champion of reason -- Robert G. Ingersoll.”
Source: Ingersoll: A Biographical Appreciation
“England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little country.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“England has the most sordid literary scene I've ever seen. They all meet in the same pub. This guy's writing a foreword for this person. They all have to give radio programs, they have to do all this just in order to scrape by. They're all scratching each other's backs.”
“England has to fulfill a double mission in India: one destructive, the other regenerating - the annihilation of old Asiatic society, and the laying the material foundations of Western society in Asia... When a great social revolution shall have mastered the results of the bourgeois epoch... and subjected them to the common control of the most advanced peoples, then only will human progress cease to resemble that hideous, pagan idol, who would not drink the nectar but from the skulls of the slain.”