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“I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer - born under the second law of thermodynamics, steeped in steam tables, in love with free-body diagrams, transformed by Laplace, and propelled by compressible flow.”

Body Law Born White Flow Tables Pockets Transformed Engineers Sock Steam Protector Nerdy Thermodynamics Diagrams

Author:Neil Armstrong

“If you dissect a bird / to diagram the tongue, / you'll cut the chord / articulating song.”

Ifs Song Cutting Bird Tongue Chords Diagrams Articulating

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“More than anything, the journal wanted. It wanted more than it could hold, more than words could describe, more than diagrams could illustrate. Longing burst from the pages, in every frantic line and every hectic sketch and every dark-printed definition. There was something pained and melancholy about it.”

Wanted Lines Dark Pages Longing Definitions Melancholy Journal Printed Frantic Hectic Diagrams

Book:The Raven Boys

Source: The Raven Boys

“I really see no harm which can come of giving our children a little knowledge of physiology. ... The instruction must be real, based upon observation, eked out by good explanatory diagrams and models, and conveyed by a teacher whose own knowledge has been acquired by a study of the facts; and not the mere catechismal parrot-work which too often usurps the place of elementary teaching.”

Source: Science and Culture: And Other Essays

“Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors, concern for the great unsolved problems of the organization of labor and the distribution of goods-in order that the creations of our mind shall be a blessing and not a curse to mankind. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.”

“The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-Boat peril...It did not take the form of flaring battles and glittering achievements, it manifested itself through statistics, diagrams, and curves unknown to the nation, incomprehensible to the public.”

World War Form Nations Battle Achievement Boat War Of The Worlds Statistics Frightened Curves Peril World War 2 Diagrams

Author:Winston Churchill

“Using the Product Development Waterfall diagram for Customer Development activities is like using a clock to tell the temperature. They both measure something, but not the thing you wanted.”

Wanted Trust Products Development Activity Customers Clock Temperature Waterfalls Diagrams Product Development

Book:The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products that Win

Source: The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products that Win

“The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see.”

Values Force Seeing Expected Drawing Data Unexpected Mathematician Noticing Visualization Analytics Statistician Diagrams

Book:Exploratory Data Analysis

Source: Exploratory Data Analysis

“The government are very keen on amassing statistics. They collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams. But you must never forget that every one of these figures comes in the first instance from the village watchman, who just puts down what he damn pleases.”

Firsts Government Forget Wonderful Figures Please Roots Raises Add Instance Damn Statistics Never Forget Village Analytics Cubes Diagrams

Author:Josiah Stamp

“I admit that these terms and the diagrams connected with them repel some readers, and fill others with the vain imagination that they have mastered difficult economics problems, when really they have done little more than learn the language in which parts of those problems can be expressed, and the machinery by which they can be handled. When the actual conditions of particular problems have not been studied, such knowledge is little better than a derrick for sinking oil-wells erected where there are no oil-bearing strata.”

Wells Littles Done Problem Language Difficult Term Imagination Conditions Particular Reader Economics Connected Oil Vain Machinery Sinking Diagrams

Author:Alfred Marshall

“The idea came like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed.”

Ideas Instant Flash Odds Lightning Peril Against All Odds Diagrams Against The Odds

Book:My Inventions

Source: My Inventions

“Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency.”

“I don't see how it's doing society any good to have so many members walking around with vague memories of algebraic formulas and geometric diagrams and clear memories of hating them.”

Hate Memories Clear Walking Members Formulas Vague Diagrams Geometric

Author:Paul Lockhart

“I believe you can never change a habit, or create one, with a word or a piece of chalk. You can talk all day, put all sorts of diagrams on the board, but a habit is not going to change. It's a conditional reflex, created by a repetitive act.”

Believe I Believe Pieces Habit Boards Never Change Believe You Can Reflexes Repetitive Chalk Conditional Diagrams

Author:Pete Newell

“If I'm interviewing someone I need to know everything about them - I do these massive spider diagrams. Everything under different categories, and certain questions in other categories.”

Ifs Knows Needs Different Certain Massive Categories Spiders Diagrams Interviewing Someone

Author:Cat Deeley

“A noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die.”

Dies Noble Planning Logical Urban Aim High Urban Planning Diagrams

Book:Plan of Chicago

Source: Plan of Chicago

“A metaphor for good information design is a map. Hold any diagram against a map and see how it compares.”

Information Design Metaphor Compare Maps Diagrams Good Information

Author:Edward Tufte

“Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.”

Source: Albert Einstein: philosopher-scientist

“If God had meant there to be more than two factors of production, He would have made it easier for us to draw three-dimension al diagrams.”

Ifs Made Two Three Easier Draws Productions Factors Made It Dimensions Als Diagrams Three Dimensions Factors Of Production

Author:Robert Solow

“No Roman ever died in contemplation over a geometrical diagram.”

Died Mathematics Math Mathematical Contemplation Diagrams

Author:Alfred North Whitehead

“The arithmetical symbols are written diagrams and the geometrical figures are graphic formulas.”

Written Figures Math Symbols Formulas Graphic Diagrams

Author:David Hilbert

“All that you need in the way of technique for drawing is bound up in the technique of seeing - that is, of understanding, which after all is mainly dependent on feeling. If you attempt to see in the way prescribed by any mechanical system of drawing, old or new, you will lose the understanding of the fundamental impulse. Your drawing becomes a meaningless diagram and the time so spent is wasted.”

Ifs Way Needs Feelings Understanding Loses Seeing Fundamentals Bounds Technique Drawing Impulse Dependent Meaningless Diagrams New You

Book:The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study

Source: The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study

“It can be argued that the mathematics behind these images [of the orbit diagram for quadratic functions and the Mandelbrot set] is even prettier than the pictures themselves.”

Art Behinds Beauty Function Mathematics Aesthetic Orbit Diagrams Quadratics

Author:Robert L. Devaney

“Malevich, Lissitsky, Kandinsky, Tatlin, Pevsner, Rodchenko... all believed in the social role of art... Their works were like hinged doors, connecting activity with activity. Art with engineering; music with painting; poetry with design; fine art with propaganda; photographs with typography; diagrams with action; the studio with the street.”

Art Action Social Roles Doors Streets Design Painting Fine Activity Photograph Studios Propaganda Engineering Connecting Fine Arts Typography Diagrams Social Roles Kandinsky

Author:John Berger

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