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“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.”

Author:Ben Shneiderman

“That is the future, and it is probably nearer than we think. But our primary problem as universities is not engineering that future. We must rise above the obsession with quantity of information and speed of transmission, and recognize that the key issue for us is our ability to organize this information once it has been amassed - to assimilate it, find meaning in it, and assure its survival for use by generations to come.”

“I think re-engineering or restructuring or downsizing or rightsizing or whatever you want to call it, it's basically firing, has gone way too far. Employees, as I've talked to them across the country, feel that they are not respected, they are not valued, they are worried about their jobs. They simply feel that the company is no longer loyal to them. Why should they be loyal to the company, they ask me. Why should I go the extra mile? Why should I care?”

“Engineering is merely the slow younger brother of physics.”

Science Brother Physics Engineering Younger Brother

Author:Steven Molaro

“A fierce and monkish art; a castigation of the flesh. You must cut out your imagination and not fly an airplane but regulate a half-dozen instruments . . . .At first, the conflicts between animal sense and engineering brain are irresistibly strong.”

Firsts Art Strong Imagination Animal Brain Half Cutting Conflict Instruments Flesh Aviation Dozen Airplane Engineering Fierce Great Aviation

Author:Wolfgang Langewiesche

“The engineering of consent is the very essence of the democratic process, the freedom to persuade and suggest.”

Process Freedom Essence Democratic Manipulation Engineering Consent Democratic Process

Book:Public Relations

Source: Public Relations

“I was always fascinated by engineering. Maybe it was an attempt maybe to get my father's respect or interest, or maybe it was just a genetic love of technology, but I was always trying to build things.”

Trying Father Interest Technology Fascinated Engineering Always Trying

Book:James Cameron: Interviews

Source: James Cameron: Interviews

“An important re-engineering principle is that companies should focus on their core competence and outsource everything else.”

Should Important Company Principles Focus Core Engineering Competence

Book:Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy

Source: Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy

“If you've found some way to educate yourself about engineering, stocks, or whatever it is, good employers will have some type of exam or interview and see a sample of your work.”

Ifs Way Found Type Interviews Educate Engineering Employers Exam Sample

Author:Bill Gates

“I worked with such concentration and focus and I had hundreds of obscure engineering or programming things in my head. I was just real exceptional in that way”

Way Real Economy Focus Programming Concentration Engineering Obscure Exceptional

Author:Steve Wozniak

“I have run engineering since day one at Oracle, and I still run engineering. I hold meetings every week with the database team, the middle ware team, the applications team. I run engineering and I will do that until the board throws me out of there.”

Inspirational Stills Running Week Team Middle Meetings Boards Application Engineering Hold Me Oracles Databases

Author:Larry Ellison

“If I were 21 years old, I would go into biotechnology or genetic engineering.”

Ifs Years Engineering Genetic Engineering Biotechnology

Author:Larry Ellison

“One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it”

Science Work Numbers Importance Mathematics Math Mathematical Engineering Publication Superfluous

Author:David Hilbert

“What made Manhattan Manhattan was the underground infrastructure, that engineering marvel.”

Made Engineering Infrastructure Manhattan

Author:Andrew Cuomo

“My own duty as a teacher...is not so much to interpret Beethoven, Wagner, or other masters of the past, but to give what encouragement I can to the young musicians of America. I...hope that just as this nation has already surpassed so many others in marvelous inventions and feats of engineering and commerce, and has made an honorable place for itself in literature in one short century, so it must assert itself on the...art of music...To bring about this result, we must trust the very youthful enthusiasm and patriotism of this country.”

“It is a simple feat of scientific electrical engineering — only expensive — blind, faint-hearted, doubting world.”

World Simple Doubt Blind Expensive Engineering Hearted Electrical Feats Faint Hearted Electrical Engineering

Book:The Nikola Tesla Treasury

Source: The Nikola Tesla Treasury

“When wireless is fully applied the earth will be converted into a huge brain, capable of response in every one of its parts.”

Earth Brain Huge Future Capable Response Engineering Inventor Wireless Converting

Author:Nikola Tesla

“A lawyer’s either a social engineer or … a parasite on society … A social engineer [is] a highly skilled, perceptive, sensitive lawyer who [understands] the Constitution of the United States and [knows] how to explore its uses in the solving of problems of local communities and in bettering conditions of the underprivileged citizens.”

“I was relaxing in my parents' swimming pool with my brother, Peter. I asked him how the engineering business was going, and he reciprocated: 'How's the ministry world going?' 'Okay,' I said, 'except that a couple of weeks ago I realized that I don't know why Jesus had to die.' Then Peter, without skipping a beat, without even a moment's hesitation, said, 'Well, neither did Jesus.'”

Knows World Wells Said Moments Dies Jesus Parent Week Couple Beats Okay I Realized Swimming Pool Peter Engineering Ministry Hesitation Swimming Pool

Author:Brian D. McLaren

“We are being colonised without New Zealanders having some say in the numbers of people coming in and where they are coming from. This is a deliberate policy of ethnic engineering and re-population.”

People Numbers Policy Population Engineering Deliberate

Author:Winston Peters

“Any impatient student of mathematics or science or engineering who is irked by having algebraic symbolism thrust upon him should try to get along without it for a week.”

Should Trying Week Students Mathematics Statistics Engineering Impatient Thrust Symbolism

Author:Eric Temple Bell

“A professor is one who can speak on any subject - for precisely fifty minutes.”

Science Speak Minutes Subjects Mathematics Math Mathematical Fifty Professors Engineering

Author:Norbert Wiener

“Birds in flight fascinate me. I admire eagles and falcons. I’m inspired by a feather but also its color, its graphics, its weightlessness and its engineering. It’s so elaborate. In fact I try and transpose the beauty of a bird to women.”

Trying Facts Color Bird Inspired Admire Flight Engineering Feathers Eagles Falcon Birds In Flight Weightlessness

Author:Alexander McQueen

“Unless you took courses in architecture, engineering, or pre-med, the rest of your liberal arts education hardly prepares you for life as the business warrior and champion you envision yourself to be.”

Inspirational Art Courses Architecture Warrior Champion Engineering Art Education Liberal Arts Meds Liberal Arts Education

Author:Gene Simmons

“Only when I began studying chemical engineering at Oregon Agricultural College did I realize that I myself might discover something new about the nature of the world.”

World Might Realizing Study College Something New Chemicals Engineering Oregon Chemical Engineering

Book:Linus Pauling in His Own Words: Selections From His Writings, Speeches and Interviews

Source: Linus Pauling in His Own Words: Selections From His Writings, Speeches and Interviews

“You can do reverse engineering, but you can’t do reverse hacking.”

Can Do Engineering Reverse Hacking Reverse Engineering

Author:Francis Crick

“The more physics you have the less engineering you need.”

Needs Physics Engineering

Author:Ernest Rutherford

“Experimental confirmation of a prediction is merely a measurement. An experiment disproving a prediction is a discovery.”

Science Discovery Experiments Engineering Predictions Measurement Confirmation

Author:Enrico Fermi

“Techniques such as genetic engineering, psychoactive drugs and electronic control of the brain make possible a transformation of the species into docile, fully-obedient, 'safe' organisms.”

Brain Drug Safe Transformation Species Technique Engineering Organisms Obedient Docile Genetic Engineering Psychoactive Drugs

Author:William Sims

“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.”

Needs Trying Doe Problem Economy Models Financial Bridges Engineering Engineers Economist

Author:Steve Keen

“I hoping to make it [decision] sometime next week. I love the academics at Tech. I can get a great degree there in engineering. Georgia has the ability to win it all next season. I think I can play early at both schools. It's going to be tough.”

Thinking I Can Play School Next Winning Ability Decision Week Degrees Tough Seasons Engineering Georgia Next Week

Author:Calvin Johnson

“The apologists for space science always seem over-impressed by engineering trivia and make far too much of non-stick frying pans and perfect ball-bearings. To my mind, the outstanding spin-off from space research is not new technology. The real bonus has been that for the first time in human history we have had a chance to look at the Earth from space, and the information gained from seeing from the outside our azure-green planet in all its global beauty has given rise to a whole new set of questions and answers.”

“In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.”

Source: Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution

“Science has discovered much. The engineering is wonderful, epicycles and all. And yet, as we look at this vast, elaborate structure built on layer and layer of complex constituents, can we help but be reminded of the Land of Oz. Have we found the Emerald City? Is this what we were searching for? Is this the ultimate fabric of reality? Is this all there is?”

Looks Helping Reality Science Spirituality Found Cities Wonderful Land Built Ultimate Structure Complexes Engineering Layers Fabric Constituents Emeralds Emerald City

Author:Walker Evans

“In 1978, I entered Tohoku University, into the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Technology.”

Technology University Department Faculty Engineering Electrical Electrical Engineering

Author:Koichi Tanaka

“Very few people can communicate with one another. The only language that's not subject to interpretation is mathematics, chemistry, basic science, engineering principles, and applied agriculture. But other than that, many systems today are subject to interpretation.”

People Today Language Principles Subjects Mathematics Communicate Interpretation Chemistry Engineering Agriculture

Author:Jacque Fresco

“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.”

Thinking Together Stuff Water Example Exciting Bridges Britain Prime Engineering Infrastructure Tunnels Tick Civil Engineering

Author:Evan Davis

“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.”

Has Beens Given Projects Late British Budgets Engineering

Author:Evan Davis

“Phyllis is one of the tunnel boring machines for Crossrail and one of the most extraordinary characters I met, visiting some of the most exciting infrastructure in Britain. Crossrail is the new railway which will run from West to East right across London. It is the biggest engineering project in Europe - and Phyllis herself is not exactly dainty.”

Character Running Mets Projects Europe Machines Exciting West Extraordinary Boring East London Britain Engineering Infrastructure Tunnels Visiting Railway Dainty

Author:Evan Davis

“Never in the annals of software engineering was so much owed by so many to so few lines of code”

Lines Code Software Engineering Software Engineering

Author:Martin Fowler

“You see, my ambition was not to confound the engineering world but simply to create a beautiful piece of art.”

World Art Beautiful Pieces Ambition Engineering My Ambition

Author:Kit Williams

“I think a craft becomes an art form when the space of possible solutions becomes so huge that engineering can't carry you through.”

Thinking Art Form Space Huge Solutions Crafts Engineering

Author:Bill Budge

“The same undisciplined government spending and social engineering that has undermined our economy over the past 30 years has also been tearing at the social fabric of this land.”

Years Government Past Social Economy Land Spending Engineering Fabric Over The Past Social Service Government Spending Undisciplined Social Engineering

Author:Stockwell Day

“At that time [1909] the chief engineer was almost always the chief test pilot as well. That had the fortunate result of eliminating poor engineering early in aviation.”

Wells Poor Results Tests Chiefs Fortunate Aviation Pilots Engineering Engineers Eliminating

Author:Igor Sikorsky

“I kind of think of engineering like the chefs at a restaurant. Nobody's going to deny chefs are integrally important, but there's also so many other people who contribute to a great meal.”

People Thinking Kind Important Deny Meals Restaurants Engineering Chef

Author:Ben Silbermann

“All attempts at artificial aviation are not only dangerous to human life, but foredoomed to failure from the engineering standpoint.”

Humans Dangerous Human Life Aviation Artificial Engineering Standpoint

Author:Simon Newcomb

“I wanted to further my education, so I went on to get a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and came back and served about ten years in the Canadian Navy as what we call a combat systems engineer.”

Years Wanted Ten Combat Engineering Engineers Navy Electrical Further Education Electrical Engineering

Author:Marc Garneau

“All my days are themed. Monday is managementTuesday is product, engineering, and design. Wednesday is marketing, growth, and communications. Thursday is partnership and developers. Friday is company and cultureOn the days beginning with T, I start at Twitter in the morning, then go to Square in the afternoon. Sundays are for strategySaturday is a day off.”

Growth Company Morning Design Products Communication Marketing Sunday Squares Afternoon Engineering Partnership Monday Friday Wednesday Developers Days Off Thursday

Author:Jack Dorsey

“My worry is that other advances in science may result in other means of mass destruction, maybe more readily available even than nuclear weapons. Genetic engineering is quite a possible area, because of these dreadful developments that are taking place there.”

May Mean Results Worry Development Weapons Mass Areas Destruction Available Nuclear Engineering Nuclear Weapons Mass Destruction Gmos Genetic Engineering Advances In Science

Author:Joseph Rotblat

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