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“The two most important things about people on a revolutionary team are their ability and passion. Their educational level or work experience is meaningless--most of the engineers who did ground-breaking work of the Macintosh design didn't even graduate from college.”

People Two Important Passion Ability Levels Team Design College Important Things Educational Revolutionary Meaningless Graduates Engineers Macintosh Work Experience

Author:Guy Kawasaki

“In Greek mythology, Antaeus was a giant who was strong as long as he had contact with the earth. When he was lifted from the earth he lost strength. So it is with engineers. They must not become isolated from the real world...”

World Long Real Earth Lost Strong Mythology Contact Greek Giants Real World Isolated Engineers Greek Mythology Greek Myth

Author:Hyman Rickover

“Knowing more about the public effects his work will have, the engineer ought to consider himself an "officer of the court" and keep the general interest always in mind.”

Mind Interest Knowing Effects Ought Court Officers Engineers Knowing More

Book:Education and Freedom

Source: Education and Freedom

“The "Powers That Be" are not smart enough to engineer Armageddon, but they may yet be stupid enough. If governments are involved in covering up the knowledge of aliens, then they are doing a much better job of it than they seem to do at anything else.”

Ifs May Enough Seems Government Jobs Stupid Involved Smart Aliens Engineers Covering Better Jobs Armageddon

Author:Stephen Hawking

“Complexity is not a goal. I don't want to be remembered as an engineer of complex systems.”

Want Goal Complexes Remembered Complexity Engineers Complex Systems

Author:David Parnas

“Scientists study physical things, then describe them; engineers describe physical things, then build them.”

Study Scientist Engineers Physical Things

Book:Radical Abundance: How a Revolution in Nanotechnology Will Change Civilization

Source: Radical Abundance: How a Revolution in Nanotechnology Will Change Civilization

“Real software engineers don't debug programs, they verify correctness. This process doesn't necessarily involve execution of anything on a computer, except perhaps a Correctness Verification Aid package. Sex without love is an empty experience, but, as empty experiences go, it's one of the best.”

Real Sex Process Love Is Computer Program Empty Aids Software Execution Engineers Packages Without Love Correctness Verify Verification Sex Without Love

Author:Woody Allen

“We have to be plumbers, electricians, construction engineers, or workers, on the space station, but at the same time running a laboratory, being scientists, being the best laboratory assistants we can be. It's all in a bundle; it's very exciting, it's a lot of fun.”

Running Fun Space Scientist Exciting Workers Being The Best Stations Construction Engineers Laboratory Assistants Bundles Plumber Electrician

Author:Thomas Marshburn

“The feeling persists that no one can simultaneously be a respectable writer and understand how a refrigerator works, just as no gentleman wears a brown suit in the city. Colleges may be to blame. English majors are encouraged, I know, to hate chemistry and physics, and to be proud because they are not dull and creepy and humorless and war-oriented like the engineers across the quad. And our most impressive critics have commonly been such English majors, and they are squeamish about technology to this very day. So it is natural for them to despise science fiction.”

“To the engineer, all matter in the universe can be placed into one of two categories: (1) things that need to be fixed, and (2) things that will need to be fixed after you've had a few minutes to play with them. Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.”

Needs Giving Art Two Matter Play Universe Imagination Modern Minutes Objects Skills Fixed Categories Engineers Baskets Modern Art Picnics Craftsmanship Picnic Baskets

Author:Tom Stoppard

“I always stayed away from the studio environment as much as possible. But I just wanted to see if I could work in one. It's not easy. Just having an engineer's assistant around is enough for me to be uncomfortable. With more than one person there in the room, it feels strange.”

Ifs Feels Persons Enough Wanted Easy Rooms Environment Strange Studios Uncomfortable If I Could Engineers Assistants

Author:Jack White

“Remember that in 1993 a company with a bad Web site needed an engineer. Today, a company with a bad Web site needs a psychiatrist.”

Needs Today Remember Company Needed Engineers Site Psychiatrist

Author:Philip Greenspun

“If it weren't for the people always getting tangled up with the machinery... Earth would be an engineer's paradise.”

People Ifs Would Be Earth Paradise Engineers Machinery Tangled

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“Social engineers veil themselves in a cloak of believability.”

Social Engineers Veils Cloaks Believability

Author:Kevin Mitnick

“Who should have children? Those who are responsible and completely dedicated to the responsibility which is actually a very small percentage of humans. Being a parent should be a career. Whereas some people are engineers, musicians, or lawyers, others with the desire and the skills can be fathers and mothers. Schools can be eliminated if the professional parent is also the educator of the child.”

“If we study learning as a data science, we can reverse engineer the human brain and tailor learning techniques to maximize the chances of student success. This is the biggest revolution that could happen in education, turning it into a data-driven science, and not such a medieval set of rumors professors tend to carry on.”

Ifs Humans Happens Chance Brain Study Students Revolution Driven Technique Data Professors Engineers Reverse Rumor Medieval Student Success Human Brain Tailors Data Science

Author:Sebastian Thrun

“There are many Iranians working at NASA. One of the engineers involved with the spaceship that went to Mars is an Iranian.”

Involved Engineers Mars Iranian Nasa Spaceships

Author:Farah Diba

“Aeroplanes are not designed by science, but by art in spite of some pretence and humbug to the contrary. I do not mean to suggest that engineering can do without science, on the contrary, it stands on scientific foundations, but there is a big gap between scientific research and the engineering product which has to be bridged by the art of the engineer.”

Mean Art Bigs Can Do Products Research Foundation Contrary Spite Gaps Engineering Engineers Aeroplanes Scientific Research Pretence Humbug Civil Engineer Civil Engineering

Author:Walter Guido Vincenti

“It's my guess that something like 5% of GDP goes to money management and itsattendant friction. I define it broadly - annuities, incentive pay, all trading, etc. Nobody else has used figures that high, but that's my guess. Worst of all, the people doing this are among the best and the brightest. Hundreds and thousands of engineers, etc. are going into hedge funds and investment banking. That is not an intelligent allocation of the brainpower of the civilization.”

“It is the woman who controls the whole house...it's her job, that's what she's supposed to do...We have to change this idea that women are not only supposed to work in the house...but she also has the ability to go outside and do business, to be a doctor, to be a teacher, to be an engineer, she should be allowed to have any job she likes. She should be treated equally, as men are.”

Men Should Ideas Whole Jobs House Ability Teacher Doctors Likes Treated Engineers

Author:Malala Yousafzai

“Productivity is most important by engineering management rules, but enjoyment is most important for engineers. One stems from the other.”

Important Management Productivity Enjoyment Engineering Engineers Stem

Author:Rob Pike

“Spaceflight is nothing less than the exterior metaphor for the shamanic voyage. In other words, in our terms, the hallucinogenic experience. This is the way engineers get high. They go to the moon!”

Way Term Moon Metaphor Engineers Voyages Exterior Getting High Spaceflight

Author:Terence McKenna

“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

“I knew I wanted to be a writer. Where I came from, no one was a writer. I came from Long Island, and everyone became a doctor or a lawyer or an engineer or a teacher or a businessman. I didn't know any writers.”

Knows Long Wanted Teacher Doctors Lawyer Islands Engineers Businessman Long Island

Author:Howard Gordon

“Some of the best ideas throughout the company's evolution have been from places all throughout the company whether it's an engineer or someone on the customer support team. Just different areas around the company.”

Has Beens Ideas Different Company Support Team Evolution Areas Customers Engineers Customer Support

Author:Mark Zuckerberg

“I had always assumed that the right way to do it was to these engineers, put them in offices by themselves with doors that they could close so they could think deep thoughts. This is a terrible idea.”

Thinking Way Ideas Doors Terrible Office Engineers Right Way Deep Thought

Author:Eric Schmidt

“For over a half century now I've watched office obesity develop into a full-blown, crippling disease. As our office clutter mounts, we're ever more intimidated and frustrated by it. We engineer drainage and removal of water and liquid wastes from society to prevent hazardous buildup, but the effluent that pours into our offices-paper-is never flushed out.”

Water Half Century Office Disease Waste Paper Engineers Frustrated Liquid Obesity Intimidated Clutter Removal Drainage

Book:The Office Clutter Cure

Source: The Office Clutter Cure

“I need to develop a car and engineer a car in a position that feels comfortable for me, and I don't think anyone can do a better job than I can in that position. The problem for me is if I can't get the car there I do struggle more than some.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Feels I Can Problem Jobs Can Do Struggle Car Position Comfortable Engineers Better Jobs

Author:Jenson Button

“I became a welder. I was actually becoming an Engineer and I joined the wrong queue. And so I became a welder, without knowing what a welder was.”

Knowing Becoming Engineers Queues

Author:Billy Connolly

“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!”

“In general, salary for land surveyors is often similar to that of a professional engineer or lawyer - surveyors are often "comfortable" but not "wealthy."”

Land Comfortable Lawyer Wealthy Engineers Salary Surveyors Land Surveyor

Author:Mark Mason

“When you write, produce, engineer and mix everything yourself, it tends to take a long time to do anything. And when you're a perfectionist little monster, it makes it even harder. But it's a blast and I wouldn't trade the opportunity for all the ice cream sandwiches in the universe.”

Writing Littles Long Universe Opportunity Produce Long Time Harder Trade Monsters Ice Engineers Cream Ice Cream Sandwiches Blast Perfectionist

Author:Adam Young

“The biggest challenge is self-financing 100% of everything. Recording costs, studio time, engineer fees, travel costs are all a part of the creation process. Then after the creation, there are producer fees, mixing, mastering, photo shoots, artwork, packaging, artist feature fees, legal fees, clearances, and so on that must be covered before any music can officially be released to the public.”

Self Artist Process Challenges Creation Cost Studios Producers Features Covered Engineers Mixing Artwork Fees Financing Photo Shoots Packaging Clearance

Author:Mya

“I try to beat back the producers and engineers so they - there's not an excess of stuff used to squeeze my voice to make it artificial. There's a person in there, and people will listen; if they hear another person speak to them, they'll listen because it's lonely out here.”

People Ifs Trying Persons Used Speak Stuff Voice Beats Lonely Producers Excess Artificial Engineers

Author:Iggy Pop

“The Marshall guitar amplifier doesn't just get louder when you turn it up. It distorts the sound to produce a whole range of new harmonics, effectively turning a plucked string instrument into a bowed one. A responsible designer might try to overcome this limitation - probably the engineers at Marshall tried, too. But that sound became the sound of, among others, Jimi Hendrix. That sound is called electric guitar.”

Trying Whole Might Turns Sound Produce Overcoming Responsible Instruments Guitar Limitation Range Designer Strings Engineers Electric Hendrix Electric Guitar Amplifiers

Author:Brian Eno

“Genetic engineers don't make new genes, they rearrange existing ones.”

Genes Engineers

Author:Thomas Lovejoy

“We called [the] process photomontage, because it embodied our refusal to play the part of the artist. We regarded ourselves as engineers, and our work as construction: we assembled our work, like a fitter.”

Play Artist Process Construction Engineers Refusal

Author:Raoul Hausmann

“Stalin said artists are the engineers of human souls. I wanted to show what happens to the soul when the engineers get through with it.”

Humans Said Soul Shows Happens Wanted Artist Engineers Human Soul

Author:Antonin Kratochvil

“No scientist, engineer, writer, psychologist, artist, or physician - and certainly no scholar, and therefore no serious university faculty member - pursues his or her vocation by getting right answers from a set of prescribed alternatives that trivialize complexity and ambiguity.”

Artist Answers Serious Members Scientist University Pursue Alternatives Complexity Faculty Scholar Engineers Physicians Vocation Ambiguity Psychologist Right Answers Faculty Members

Author:Leon Botstein

“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.”

Long Has Beens Stills I Can Wanted Jobs Father Term Television Tvs Musician Decided Deny Long Term Engineering Disgusting Engineers Packs Apprentice Second Best

Author:Peter Ham

“That was an idea of the record company, and also that was my first album after MCA and we wanted to come back with a strong album that would be noticed. If we put the vocals by very talented people and very meaningful songs, then the vocals would be a platform so that I could be noticed again. All of the MCA albums were just loaded with problems -- you know, the right musicians, the engineers. The record company would say 'You have to make music for black radio, you can't do what you have been doing with The Crusaders.' Everybody was telling me that was over, finished, done.”

“Well my wife and I just had a baby ourselves and it makes it harder to be on the road. It isn't for everybody and it can burn people out, and that's what's happened in the past. We've just kept the ship running y'know what I mean? You change engineers from time to time and as long as everybody coming aboard knows what direction the ship is, everything's alright.”

People Knows Wells Mean Long Running Past Wife Happened Baby Harder My Wife Ships Engineers Alright

Author:Al Barr

“You gotta understand also that teenage kids just don't have the experience and the studio technique. I mean, in those days it wasn't electronic like it is today, where you can hit a drum and, you know, the engineer does it all. In those days, everything was live and you had to have decent sounds, and through the years you get to weed out what's bad and what's good.”

Knows Years Mean Doe Kids Today Sound Studios Technique Decent Weed Engineers Teenage Through The Years

Author:Hal Blaine

“We've done every record on our own. Its produced by our guitar player and sometimes we'll have some help mixin' it and have some outside engineers but for the most part, it's done by the band and I think that's the reason why CKY sounds like no other band, 'cause we make our own albums.”

Thinking Sometimes Reason Done Helping Causes Sound Records Player Band Guitar Albums Reason Why Engineers Guitar Player

Author:Jess Margera

“The Stones are not the kind of band that want to get in the details. That's why they have a producer and engineer - to pull the magic out of them and make them sound so great.”

Want Kind Sound Magic Band Stones Details Producers Engineers

Author:Nikki Sixx

“It's the opposite of that. Engineers in lab coats have created a musical experience that is so crisp and clean, it can literally improve your hearing.”

Opposites Clean Musical Hearing Engineers Coats Labs Crisps Musical Experience

Author:Barry Goldberg

“Great engineers are a huge multiplier.”

Huge Engineers

Author:Steve Jobs

“To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.”

States Aim Pursue Engineers No Money

Author:Ezra Pound

“Ohio went on alert Tuesday when a train with hazardous chemicals ran wild through the state. A brave engineer leaped aboard and brought the runaway train under control. Sounds like we've found our next FBI Director.”

States Next Found Sound Directors Train Brave Ran Chemicals Engineers Fbi Ohio Tuesday Runaway

Author:Argus Hamilton

“If our hearts and minds are not properly transformed, we are like musicians playing untuned instruments, or engineers working with broken and ill-programmed computers. The attunement of the heart is essential to the outflow of grace...We must aim at building the structures of God's kingdom but recognized that we will only create these through the transformation of our experience. Concentration on reformation without revival leads to skins without wine; concentration on revival without reformation soon loses the wine for want of skins.”

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