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“I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.”

People Thinking Problem Creative Smart Financial Engineering Engineers Innovative

Author:Walter Isaacson

“One can expect the human race to continue attempting systems just within or just beyond our reach; and software systems are perhaps the most intricate and complex of man's handiworks. The management of this complex craft will demand our best use of new languages and systems, our best adaptation of proven engineering management methods, liberal doses of common sense, and a God-given humility to recognize our fallibility and limitations.”

“Lorenzo de' Medici seeks highly skilled, aesthetically oriented individual to conceive and implement several major public projects. You are a generalist with sound training in structural engineering, synthesis of pigments and Christian iconography. Some climbing involved”

Christian Individual Sound Involved Projects Majors Training Climbing Engineering Synthesis Pigment Iconography Generalists

Author:Michelangelo

“When Chuck House wanted to develop the oscilloscope for HP, David Packard told him to abandon the project. Chuck went on "vacation" and came back with $2 million in orders. Packard later gave him an award inscribed with an accolade for "extraordinary contempt and defiance beyond the normal call of engineering."”

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Author:Bob Sutton

“Engineering is easy - it's the people problems that are hard.”

People Hard Problem Easy Engineering

Author:Temple Grandin

“Land surveyors can spend as much time reading legislation, bylaws, and engineering documents as we spend in front of an instrument in the field or calculating coordinates for a subdivision. We are mathematicians, historians, project managers, advocates, engineers, and even chainsaw operators!”

“Genetic engineering is a result of science advancement, so I don't think that in itself is bad.”

Thinking Results Engineering Advancement Genetic Engineering

Author:Hideo Kojima

“Growing up in India, I knew all I needed to change the world was one good opportunity, and I prepared myself for it. When that opportunity came - in the form of the chance to earn an engineering degree - I was ready.”

World Form Opportunity Chance Growing Up Growing Ready Needed Degrees India Prepared Changing The World Engineering Good Opportunity

Author:Naveen Jain

“What I'm trying to do is bring certain of those engineering values into the design process, such that when you think about form you're already incorporating those performance criteria in the process of the generation of forms.”

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Author:Neri Oxman

“I was an apprentice television engineer when I decided to pack it up and go full-time, much to my father's disgust. But I'm still interested and I like messing about with TV. I can't deny it ... TV engineering was the job I'd wanted at the time, and I got what I wanted. But in the long-term it would have been second best to being a musician.”

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Author:Peter Ham

“Someone will always want to mobilize Death on a massive scale for economic Domination or revenge. And the task, taken As a task, appeals to the imagination. The military is an engineering profession.”

Want Imagination Taken Economic Military Tasks Revenge Profession Scales Appeals Massive Engineering Domination

Book:Time and materials: poems, 1997-2005

Source: Time and materials: poems, 1997-2005

“Having a good idea is one thing, but persuading other people to buy it is quite another. Good inventors are polymaths: they think with their hands and their brains. They're experts in design, engineering and business.”

People Thinking Ideas Hands Brain One Thing Design Experts Good Ideas Engineering Inventor Persuading Polymaths

Author:James Dyson

“Those with engineering skills will build tomorrow's genius computers. But those with the ability to create knowledge of any kind will be the ones who are best able to extract great value from them. The way to create value in the age of genius machines will be to compile and disseminate knowledge that other people will find useful.”

People Way Kind Age Able Values Ability Genius Tomorrow Skills Computer Machines Engineering Great Value

Author:Ray Kurzweil

“Science is the study of what Is, Engineering builds what Will Be. The scientist merely explores that which exists, while the engineer creates what has never existed before.”

Study Scientist Engineering Engineers

Author:Theodore von Karman

“The central activity of engineering, as distinguished from science, is the design of new devices, processes and systems.”

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Book:Rational Descriptions, Decisions and Designs: Pergamon Unified Engineering Series

Source: Rational Descriptions, Decisions and Designs: Pergamon Unified Engineering Series

“Engineering is not only study of 45 subjects but it is moral studies of intellectual life. Make things as simple as possible..but not simpler.”

Simple Moral Study Subjects Intellectual Engineering Intellectual Life

Author:Albert Einstein

“While THE NEW COOL takes the reader inside a season, limns a team and coaching staff, and masterfully recounts a gripping competition, this is anything but your conventional sports book. And not simply because the 'big game' is...a curious robotics contest. Like the kids he vividly captures, Neal Bascomb has himself performed a masterful bit of engineering here.”

Book Bigs Kids Games Bits Sports Team Reader Seasons Competition Curious Coaching Capture Engineering Conventional Staff Contests Robotics Gripping Coaching Staff

Author:L. Jon Wertheim

“Do we pour $40 billion into grandiose Louisiana engineering projects or do we instead put up no trespassing- signs in the areas below sea level? All are hard choices with various merits and pains. The important thing, however, is for America to decide whether the current policy of inaction is really the way we want to deal with the worst natural disaster in our history.”

“Software is definitely engineering. It's different in that we take on novel tasks every time. It's not like building a certain bridge that is virtually identical to some previous bridge or some previous building.”

Different Certain Novel Building Tasks Bridges Software Engineering Identical

Author:Bill Gates

“Software will get to be somewhat more mature, ah, but it will never be as predictable as most areas of engineering.”

Areas Mature Software Engineering Predictable

Author:Bill Gates

“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.”

Long Company Gone Products Right Now Consumers Apples Software Engineering Roof Electronics

Book:Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs

Source: Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs

“There are fewer Arabs in Tel Aviv, one of the largest cities in the Middle East, than there are in Chicago, the largest city in the American Midwest. How do you accomplish such a remarkable feat of social engineering without massive violence?”

Social Cities Violence Middle Accomplish East Remarkable Massive Chicago Fewer Middle East Engineering Feats Midwest Social Engineering

Author:Max Blumenthal

“The fact is that humans have been shaping the genetics of what they eat for thousands of years. Genetic engineering simply speeds up the process that used to take generations. Preventing people from getting things like golden rice or disease-resistant cassava destroys human life, and does not spare the environment in any way.”

People Way Years Humans Doe Has Beens Facts Used Process Environment Generations Disease Speed Golden Human Life Engineering Spares Rice Genetics Preventing Genetic Engineering

Author:Annalee Newitz

“I started off in architecture, and I just couldn't fit into the vibe there. I just felt more at home in the Art Department, so I just ended up there. But I would be an architect if it didn't require so much engineering.”

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Author:Larkin Grimm

“I studied engineering at MIT. There, the late, great physicist Philip Morrison introduced me to the idea that, in any system, there exists the inevitability that an event will occur which is completely unrelated to anything that preceded it. It completely changed my perception of "impossible."”

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Author:Tohoru Masamune

“In Lagos there's a really strong case to resurrect strong parts. Embedded in all of it are some amazing pieces of planning, amazing pieces of engineering and interaction. For instance, the campus of Lagos University is stunningly beautiful, efficient and generous, and that needs to be recognised and preserved.”

Needs Beautiful Strong Cases Pieces University Planning Instance Generous Efficient Interaction Engineering Campus Embedded

Author:Rem Koolhaas

“There are certainly lots of jobs in computer coding, but coding doesn't really require advanced mathematics. And engineering jobs, they vary widely in the amount of demand that we actually need. So, you know, the number of people for whom the job description includes Newton's calculus is not perhaps that high.”

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Author:Anya Kamenetz

“It's true that to speak of an ethic of giftedness, which is very much the ethic that I deploy in raising questions about designer children and genetic engineering - an appreciation of the giftedness of the child or the giftedness of life does have religious resonance, because a great many religious traditions emphasize the sense in which the good things in life are not all our own doing; they are gifts from God.”

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Author:Michael Sandel

“I am trying to get at the moral arguments and the ethical status of various attempts at enhancement, or genetic engineering, or the bid for designer children. But there are implications for society at large.”

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Author:Michael Sandel

“I do think it is very important that the religious communities do try to bring their teachings and their insights to bear on the stem cell debate and on the debate about genetic engineering.”

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Author:Michael Sandel

“The other dynamic keeping the stock market up - both for technology stocks and others - is that companies are using a lot of their income for stock buybacks and to pay out higher dividends, not make new investment,. So to the extent that companies use financial engineering rather than industrial engineering to increase the price of their stock you're going to have a bubble. But it's not considered a bubble, because the government is behind it, and it hasn't burst yet.”

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Author:Michael Hudson

“The underlying strategy of the Fed is to tell people, "Do you want your money to lose value in the bank, or do you want to put it in the stock market?" They're trying to push money into the stock market, into hedge funds, to temporarily bid up prices. Then, all of a sudden, the Fed can raise interest rates, let the stock market prices collapse and the people will lose even more in the stock market than they would have by the negative interest rates in the bank. So it's a pro-Wall Street financial engineering gimmick.”

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Author:Michael Hudson

“In the first 27 years of my life, I never had written a single non-technical word. I went to engineering college and went to business school. I never knew I could write fiction of any form.”

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Author:Karan Bajaj

“I didn't finish high school, but I went to a special school for producers and musicians, a three year course for engineering, producing and learning all the tricks. So now I have my producing degree and certification.”

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Author:Martin Garrix

“Russia and China also cooperate in mechanical engineering, high-speed railway transportation, lumber processing, nuclear energy production and so on. We have built the Tianwan Nuclear Power Plant. Two units are already operational and are showing good results.”

“I have a daily call thats 2.5 hrs with the entire team: from materials, sourcing, manufacturing, design, sensor, firmware... mechanical engineering - all together and they all have to sit through each other's updates... but then understand what those tradeoffs are and I sort of force that communication.”

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Author:Hosain Rahman

“There is no one "root of all evil" in software development. Design is hard in many ways. People tend to underestimate the intellectual and practical difficulties involved in building a significant system involving software. It is not and will not be reduced to a simple mechanical "assembly line" process. Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.”

“You have to do every detail on every bloody piece of the building. You have to know how the engineering works. You have to know how the fittings go together. You have to master the mechanical, electrical, acoustical - everything.”

Knows Together Know How Pieces Building Masters Details Engineering Bloody Electrical

Author:Frank Gehry

“What we usually consider as impossible are simply engineering problems... there's no law of physics preventing them.”

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Author:Michio Kaku

“Sporting competitions seem to be what we obsess over, frankly. So if we can put engineering, science, technology into a format of healthy, fun competition, we can attract all sorts of kids that might not see the kind of activity we do as accessible or rewarding.”

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Author:Dean Kamen

“Dad and Mom were frustrated artists - Dad wanted to study engineering or architecture and Mom wanted to be an actress - but the world was a different place when they were young so Dad became a public works foreman and Mom became a stay-at-home mom. When I said I wanted to be a writer, they were thrilled. They did everything in their power to support me.”

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Author:Eden Robinson

“I strive to create drum samples that have a variety of engineering and capturing options in order to build a unique drum sound.”

Order Sound Unique Strive Variety Engineering Sample

Author:Joey Sturgis

“You have the insanity that is geo-engineering which is a case in which you say the planet is heating up. Let's spray some aerosol and cool it down.”

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Author:Jonathon Keats

“Let's not be optimistic in the irreversibly irresponsible way that tends to happen with the crazies of geo-engineering. But let's talk about what sorts of changes we can make.”

Way Happens Optimistic Engineering Irresponsible Being Optimistic

Author:Jonathon Keats

“We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.”

People Kind May Enough Talking Wise Engineering Being Wise

Author:Leon Kass

“Bear in mind that we [ with Edward Herman] did not devise the terms "manufacture of consent" and "engineering of consent." We borrowed them from leading figures in the media, public relations industry, and academic scholarship.”

Mind Term Media Figures Industry Bears Relation Academic Engineering Consent Scholarship Borrowed Public Relations

Author:Noam Chomsky

“I've had training in electronics engineering, of all things, and in languages. But I've never taken any degree, something I share with Lewis Mumford, I think.”

Thinking Language Taken Share Degrees Training All Things Engineering Electronics

Author:Murray Bookchin

“Asian countries produce eight times as many engineering bachelors as the United States, and the number of U.S. students graduating at the masters and PhD levels in these areas is declining.”

Country States Levels United Numbers United States Students Produce Masters Areas Eight Graduates Engineering Asian Bachelors Phds Asian Countries

Author:Mark Kennedy

“The role of geo-engineering should, in a world of responsibility, in a world of scientifically enlightened decision making and ecological understanding, it should be zero. There is no role for geo-engeneering. Because what is geoengineering but extending the engineering paradigm?”

World Should Understanding Decision Responsibility Roles Enlightened Decision Making Zero Engineering Paradigm Ecological Extending Geoengineering

Author:Vandana Shiva

“We could replace people with fossil fuels, have higher and higher levels of industrialization, of agriculture, of production, without thinking of the green-house gases we were admitting, and climate change is really the pollution of the engineering paradigm, when fossil fuels drove industrialism. To now offer that same mindset as a solution is to not take seriously what Einstein said: that you can't solve the problems by using the same mindset that caused them.”

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