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“I studied engineering in the national university, the Universidad Autonoma, in San Ildefonso.”

“I started out in engineering. I was a geophysical engineer. Throughout the course of my life I've done a lot of strange jobs, and the effect has been to make me think a little more skeptically about our capitalist society.”

Thinking Littles Has Beens Done Jobs Courses Effects Strange Capitalist Engineering Engineers

Author:George Saunders

“The best thing that ever happened to me is that nothing happened in writing. I ended up working for engineering companies, and that's where I found my material, in the everyday struggle between capitalism and grace. Being broke and tired, you don't come home your best self.”

“I went to engineering school, I went to physics class. I said, 'Screw this, I don't want to be here. I'd much rather be at a club playing music.”

Want Said School Class Clubs Physics Engineering Screws Playing Music

Author:Huey Lewis

“It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering.”

Social Technology Impossible Information Engineering Engaging Information Technology Social Engineering

Author:Jaron Lanier

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

Design Products Enjoyed Engineering Product Design

Author:Debi Thomas

“I suppose the reason I chose electrical engineering was because I had always been interested in electricity, involving myself in such projects as building radios from the time I was a child.”

Children Reason Building Projects Radio Engineering Electricity Involving Electrical Electrical Engineering

Author:Koichi Tanaka

“Nonetheless, the research budgets of the Department of Defense are under enormous stress-and they are extremely important because they support more than 40 percent of all federal funding for engineering schools across the country. So the threat was and is real.”

Important Real Country School Support Research Percent Stress Threat Defense Enormous Budgets Department Engineering Funding

Author:Charles M. Vest

“Corporations, in the name of efficiency, suppress variation by "getting all the ducks in line."To optimize productivity, they evolve highly refined and internally consistent operating systems. Payoff - results - as long as the music lasts. But ... all that streamlining and re-engineering limits diversity, suppresses self-organization ... and curtails a bottom up emergent response to disruptive change.”

“Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel economy standards for the existing set of vehicles by 10 miles per gallon using existing technology, without compromising safety or comfort at all.”

School America Technology Economy Comfort Standards Scientist Safety Miles Compromise Fuel Vehicle Engineering Gallons Mit Fuel Economy

Author:Ed Markey

“Shipping first time code is like going into debt. A little debt speeds development so long as it is paid back promptly with a rewrite. The danger occurs when the debt is not repaid. Every minute spent on not-quite-right code counts as interest on that debt. Entire engineering organizations can be brought to a standstill under the debt load of an unconsolidated implementation, object-oriented or otherwise.”

Firsts Littles Long Interest Minutes Danger Objects Development First Time Organization Paid Debt Speed Code Engineering Load Implementation Shipping Standstill

Author:Ward Cunningham

“I've always written. I'm from an older generation of programmers [who] did not come out of engineering. [A]ll sorts of people were drawn in from the social sciences and humanities.”

People Humanity Social Written Generations Engineering Programmers Social Science Older Generation

Author:Ellen Ullman

“Engineering stimulates the mind. Kids get bored easily. They have got to get out and get their hands dirty: make things, dismantle things, fix things. When the schools can offer that, you'll have an engineer for life.”

Mind Hands Kids School Offers Bored Dirty Engineering Engineers

Author:Bruce Dickinson

“Teachers need to be more inspirational. But it's also up to engineering to make itself more interesting.”

Needs Interesting Teacher Engineering

Author:Bruce Dickinson

“I am going to design, in a great hurry, and I believe to build a station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc. etc. It is at Paddington, in cutting, and admitting of no exterior, all interior and all roofed in.”

My Own Design Fancy Etc Stations Engineering Roof

Author:Isambard Kingdom Brunel

“Basically, if I have no intention of using a service then I won't bother reverse-engineering it.”

Ifs Intention Bother Engineering Reverse Reverse Engineering

Author:Jon Lech Johansen

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

Ifs Community Failing Source Engineering Reverse Doomed Banned Open Source Reverse Engineering

Author:Jon Lech Johansen

“I still haven't heard anything from Apple about my hacks. There is a tool based on my work reverse-engineering Apple's FairPlay called jhymn that's been hosted on a U.S. server for over a year and nothing has happened.”

Years Stills Happened Heard Havens Tools Apples Engineering Reverse Hacks Server Reverse Engineering

Author:Jon Lech Johansen

“To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing for 10 shillings what any fool can do for a pound”

Art Can Do Fool Pounds Engineering

Author:Duke of Wellington

“I do engineering, not religion.”

Engineering

Author:Daniel J. Bernstein

“My latter schooldays and my university days were during the war, when science - physics, in particular - was a very important and glamorous subject. A lot of us felt that if we couldn't get into science, we might try engineering or medicine.”

Ifs Trying Important War Might Felt Subjects Particular Medicine University Physics Latter Engineering Glamorous Science Physics

Author:John Henry Carver

“For decades engineers have stood accused that their buildings do not have any cultural value. We have attempted to liberate engineering of this accusation.”

Values Building Decades Engineering Engineers Accused Accusation

Author:Fritz Todt

“To Monsieur Eiffel the Engineer, the brave builder of so gigantic and original a specimen of modern Engineering from one who has the greatest respect and admiration for all Engineers including the Great Engineer the Bon Dieu.”

Science Modern Originals Brave Including Admiration Engineering Engineers Builder Eiffel

Author:Thomas A. Edison

“If you assume continuity, you can open the well-stocked mathematical toolkit of continuous functions and differential equations, the saws and hammers of engineering and physics for the past two centuries (and the foreseeable future).”

Ifs Wells Two Past Science Nature Natural Saws Century Function Assuming Physics Mathematical Engineering Equations Hammers Continuity Differential Equations

Book:The (Mis)Behaviour of Markets: A Fractal View of Risk, Ruin and Reward

Source: The (Mis)Behaviour of Markets: A Fractal View of Risk, Ruin and Reward

“When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.”

“If we taught music the way we try to teach engineering, in an unbroken four year course, we could end up with all theory and no music. When we study music, we start to practice from the beginning, and we practice for the entire time.”

Ifs Way Trying Years Ends Courses Teach Practice Study Four Teaching Taught Theory Four Years Engineering Unbroken

Author:Charles Kettering

“The neutrality and clarity of an engineering drawing is a better model for teaching about art than all the uncontrollable drivel about the cabbala and metaphysics and the ecstasy of sainthood.”

Art Teaching Models Drawing Clarity Ecstasy Engineering Metaphysics Neutrality Uncontrollable Sainthood Drivel

Author:George Grosz

“The biggest engineering companies, like Schlumberger, Halliburton and others, have technology they spent billions of dollars developing.”

Company Technology Dollars Billions Developing Engineering

Author:Vagit Alekperov

“Being the first mid-size SUV for the brand, Dodge Nitro had to personify the bold, powerful and street-smart attitude of Dodge. In a world of mostly bland SUVs, the 2007 Dodge Nitro has the design, engineering and performance to inspire consumers and ignite the mid-size SUV market.”

World Firsts Powerful Attitude Streets Design Inspire Smart Performances Size Brands Consumers Engineering Boldness Ignite Bland Dodge Suvs Street Smart

Author:George Murphy

“One of the great inventions of the twentieth century was the studied, methodical engineering of myth for political ends.”

Ends Political Century Myth Invention Engineering Twentieth Century Methodical Great Inventions

Book:More joy than rage: crossing generations with the new feminism

Source: More joy than rage: crossing generations with the new feminism

“I think the ethics and morals of genetic engineering are very complicated. It intrigues me.”

Thinking Moral Ethics Complicated Engineering Intrigue Genetic Engineering Ethics And Morals

Author:Roger Spottiswoode

“The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there.”

Programming Software Engineering Components Programmers Computer Programming Software Engineering Software Design Computer Programmers Computer Software Simplicity In Design Programming Funny

Author:Gordon Bell

“George Washington was quite a farmer. He was a farmer, Civil Engineer and gentleman. He made enough at civil engineering to indulge in both the other luxuries.”

Made Enough Luxury Gentleman Farmers Engineering Engineers Agriculture Indulge Indulge In Civil Engineer Civil Engineering

Author:Will Rogers

“Recession doesn't deserve the right to exist. There are just too many things to be done in science and engineering to be bogged down by temporary economic dislocations.”

Done Economic Deserve Temporary Engineering Recessions Dislocation

Author:Walt Disney

“Nuclear weapons need large facilities, but genetic engineering can be done in a small lab. You can't regulate every lab in the world. The danger is that either by accident or design, we create a virus that destroys us.”

World Needs Done Danger Design Weapons Accidents Nuclear Engineering Nuclear Weapons Facility Viruses Labs Genetic Engineering

Author:Stephen Hawking

“A classic engineering mistake and one I've made is confusing what is hard and what is valuable.”

Made Hard Mistake Valuable Classic Engineering Confusing

Author:Max Levchin

“Choose one thing and become a master of it. Choose a second thing and become a master of that. When you become a master of two worlds, say, engineering and business, you can bring them together in a way that will a) introduce hot ideas to each other, so they can have idea sex and make idea babies that no one has seen before and b) create a competitive advantage because you can move between worlds, speak both languages, connect the tribes, mash the elements to spark fresh creative insight until you wake up with the epiphany that changes your life.”

“In the next decade we plan to create the first gender balance engineering school in Africa. We believe women should be part of the solution.”

Should Firsts Believe School Next Plans Balance Solutions Gender Decades Engineering

Author:Patrick Awuah, Jr.

“Science, math and engineering can give you the exhilarating power to become not mere spectators or consumers, but the active explorers, makers and doers who will help invent the future.”

Giving Helping Mere Active Math Consumers Makers Engineering Spectators Explorers Exhilarating Doers

Author:Susan Hockfield

“I used to be a chemical-engineering student, but I started studying acting, and I went for a cattle call, up against hundreds of people. They tore me down because I was too tall. They said "How tall are you?" "6'5"." "Next."”

People Said Used Next Acting Study Students Used To Be Tall Chemicals Engineering They Said Cattle Chemical Engineering

Author:Dolph Lundgren

“The 19th century was the great period of engineering, thanks to the railways, thanks to lots of discoveries in metallurgy.”

Century Periods Discovery Thanks Engineering 19th Century Railway

Author:Joe Harris

“I use minimal software to make my music - a wav editor and a calculator for my beats to make sure everything falls on mathematical precision. If you were just mapping this out visually, it works by math. I guess it's slightly engineering influenced.”

Ifs Use Fall Beats Math Mathematical Editors Software Engineering Precision Mapping Calculators

Author:Girl Talk

“Similarly for marking exercises, quantitative exercises, maybe not so much in mathematics, but certainly problem sets in physics, chemistry, and engineering and things like that where answers and methods are clear cut, absolutely. I would like to see that done online.”

Done Problem Answers Clear Cutting Exercise Mathematics Method Physics Online Chemistry Engineering

Author:David Gelernter

“I do quite like Gehry's Guggenheim. But where in Bilbao it's seen as an outgrowth of years of investment in urban design and engineering, in Britain it's seen as the catalyst for urban regeneration rather than the icing on the cake.”

Years Design Investment Britain Cake Engineering Urban Catalyst Regeneration Icing Icing On The Cake Urban Design

Author:David Chipperfield

“The required techniques of effective reasoning are pretty formal, but as long as programming is done by people that don't master them, the software crisis will remain with us and will be considered an incurable disease. And you know what incurable diseases do: they invite the quacks and charlatans in, who in this case take the form of Software Engineering gurus.”

People Knows Long Done Form Cases Masters Disease Crisis Technique Reasoning Programming Software Invites Engineering Formal Guru Software Engineering Charlatans Quacks Incurable Disease

Author:Edsger Dijkstra

“Aggression, like every other part of human behavior we take for granted, is a challenging engineering problem!”

Humans Problem Challenges Behavior Granted Engineering Aggression Human Behavior

Book:How the Mind Works

Source: How the Mind Works

“Google has helped raise the importance of DNS above the network engineering community, which has been really good.”

Has Beens Community Importance Raises Engineering Google

Author:David Ulevitch

“In fact, the science of thermodynamics began with an analysis, by the great engineer Sadi Carnot, of the problem of how to build the best and most efficient engine, and this constitutes one of the few famous cases in which engineering has contributed to fundamental physical theory. Another example that comes to mind is the more recent analysis of information theory by Claude Shannon. These two analyses, incidentally, turn out to be closely related.”

Mind Two Facts Problem Turns Cases Information Example Theory Fundamentals Analysis Related Engines Efficient Engineering Engineers Thermodynamics Shannon

Author:Richard P. Feynman

“The advance of genetic engineering makes it quite conceivable that we will begin to design our own evolutionary progress.”

Progress Design Evolution Engineering Genetic Engineering

Book:The beginning and the end

Source: The beginning and the end

“With the subsequent strong support from cybernetics , the concepts of systems thinking and systems theory became integral parts of the established scientific language, and led to numerous new methodologies and applications -- systems engineering, systems analysis, systems dynamics, and so on.”

Thinking Language Strong Support Theory Concepts Analysis Application Engineering Dynamics Systems Thinking Methodology Cybernetics Systems Analysis Systems Theory

Book:The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems

Source: The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems

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