“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.” StudyScientistEngineeringEngineers Author:Theodore von Karman
“Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been. Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.” CreativityScientistEngineersMarvelousMundanePiercings Author:Bill Moyers
“To the optimist, the glass is half full. To the pessimist, the glass is half empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be. Design is how you treat your customers. If you treat them well from an environmental, emotional, and aesthetic standpoint, you're probably doing good design.” IfsNeedsWellsBigsHalfDesignEmotionalEmptyTreatsEnvironmentalGlassesCustomersAestheticEngineersOptimistDoing GoodPessimistStandpointGood DesignHalf FullHalf Empty Author:Yves Behar
“Distribution may not matter in fictional worlds, but it matters in most. The Field of Dreams conceit is especially popular in Silicon Valley, where engineers are biased toward building cool stuff rather than selling it. But customers will not come just because you build it. You have to make this happen, and it's harder than it looks.” WorldLooksMayMatterDreamHappensStuffFieldsBuildingHarderCustomersSellingValleysEngineersDistributionConceitBiasedSiliconSilicon ValleyCool StuffFictional WorldsField Of Dreams Author:Peter Thiel
“I find it amusing that those who helped to authorize and engineer the biggest foreign policy disaster in our generation are now criticizing me for making sure that we are on the right battlefield and not the wrong battlefield in the war against terrorism.” WarGenerationsPolicyTerrorismDisasterCriticizeForeign PolicyEngineersAmusingBattlefieldsOur Generation Author:Barack Obama
“The US is often the first to call for transparency and integrity in the reporting of other governments. It has never provided transparency or integrity in its reporting on the war in Iraq. It has downplayed the growth of the insurgency and other civil conflicts. It exaggerated progress in the development of Iraqi forces, and has reported meaningless macroecomic figures claiming 'progress' in the face of steadily deteriorating economic conditions for most Iraqis outside the Kurdish security zone, and does so in the face of almost incredible incompetence by USAID and the Corps of Engineers.” FirstsDoeWarGovernmentFacesForceGrowthProgressEconomicConditionsSecurityFiguresDevelopmentIntegrityConflictIncrediblesIraqZoneMeaninglessEngineersTransparencyIncompetenceExaggeratedInsurgencyDeterioratingKurdishUsaid Author:Anthony H. Cordesman
“Don't go to the same studio twice, or work with the same engineer twice.” StudiosEngineers Author:Stephen Malkmus
“The funny thing is that even engineers and techs don't know what a tiny telephone connector is - people call them TT connectors. Engineers used to come by all the time and say, "Why are you called Tiny Telephone?"” PeopleKnowsUsedTinyEngineersTelephonesFunny ThingsConnectors Author:John Vanderslice
“Traditionally, an engineer is responsible for capturing sound - microphone choice, gear, etc. A producer can have a number of different responsibilities - anything from songwriting to judging performances - setting mood, and (perhaps most importantly) choosing which songs to work on!” DifferentSongChoicesSoundNumbersResponsibilityJudgingPerformancesResponsibleMoodSettingProducersSettingsEtcSongwritingEngineersGearsMicrophones Author:Matt Squire
“I was a sound engineer, and all of these gurus and shamans would come, and I would record the workshops they were teaching. And I took part in a shamanic journeying workshop, and this woman leading the workshop had brought Ayahuasca, which is a Peruvian hallucinogen and contains DMT.” SoundRecordsTeachingEngineersGuruWorkshopsDmtAyahuascaHallucinogensPeruvians Author:Larkin Grimm
“When I was working at Omega, I took this Zen retreat, where you're quiet, you don't say anything for a week, and this guy there said, "You're going to be enlightened at the end of this week, that's my goal." I was the engineer, so I was recording everything at it was happening, but I was also participating, because I felt like it. So at the end of it, I did understand what enlightenment was, one-hundred percent.” SaidEndsGuyFeltGoalWeekQuietHappeningsEnlightenmentPercentHundredEnlightenedEngineersSay AnythingRetreatThis GuyParticipating Author:Larkin Grimm
“All you do is you go back to the Maida Vale Studios at BBC in London, and it feels like you're in a spaceship. It feels like you're in 2001 or something like that. It's massive and well constructed and highly technologically advanced and occupied by these wise scientists, engineers, and producers. Listening to it, it just doesn't sound like me - that's a younger self that didn't know who he was or what he was doing. I can't identify with a nebulous cloud.” KnowsFeelsWellsI CanSelfSoundWiseLike YouListeningScientistCloudsLike MeProducersMassiveEngineersSpaceshipsYounger Self Author:Will Oldham
“It's not that appealing when something sexist happens to you. But if you're strong enough, and you can push that aside and keep your goal in mind and remember that you're doing your job - whatever that is, whether it's a producer or an artist or a mastering engineer - because you love it, then all that stuff falls by the wayside.” IfsMindEnoughHappensJobsRememberArtistFallStrongStuffGoalProducersEngineersStrong EnoughSexist Author:Emily Lazar
“I'm very critiqueful of my own stuff, and I kick everybody out the studio when I'm singing, no one is in the studio, it's just me and the engineers, no one else in the studio when I'm doing my thing.” StuffMy OwnSingingStudiosKicksEngineers Author:Ginuwine
“I'm an engineer and a writer. And I find that those two things are not uncomplementary.” TwoTwo ThingsEngineers Author:Naomi Novik
“It's crazy how intelligent kids can be at a very young age and how they know what they know. I came out of the womb drawing on everything; I used to draw on my mother's white furniture and her white walls with her red lipstick and my pencils. Little did she know that would later materialize into me doing what I do now - I'm a painter as well and a micromechanical engineer.” KnowsWellsLittlesKidsAgeYoungUsedMotherWhiteCrazyWallDrawsRedIntelligentDrawingPainterEngineersPencilsFurnitureWombYoung AgeLipstickRed LipsRed LipstickWhite Walls Author:Aldis Hodge
“Parking's expensive, so I walk or ride my bike, which is good because my girlfriend's getting her PhD as an environmental engineer.” WalksEnvironmentalGirlfriendExpensiveEngineersBikeMy GirlfriendParkingPhds Author:Chaz Bundick
“The Chronic represented everything that I hated about hip-hop as a fan, but then later represented everything that I stood for as a musician and engineer.” FansMusicianHip HopHipsHatedHopsEngineers Author:Questlove
“I've recorded myself for four or five years and have been doing lots of experiments. I'm not that good an engineer - so it always becomes a different song - but I have ideas.” YearsHas BeensIdeasDifferentSongFiveFourExperimentsFive YearsEngineers Author:Gustav Ejstes
“A NASA astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut can't be creative. He has to follow a predetermined detailed checklist written by an engineer and if he gets a little creative he'll never fly again.” IfsLittlesCreativeWrittenEngineersBe CreativeAstronautNasaPredeterminedChecklists Author:Burt Rutan
“One of the high points of my life was when I suddenly realized that this dream I had in my late adolescence of combining pure mathematics, very pure mathematics with very hard things which had been long a nuisance to scientists and to engineers, that this combination was possible and I put together this new geometry of nature, the fractal geometry of nature.” LongHardDreamTogetherPureLateScientistMathematicsCombinationEngineersAdolescenceGeometryHard ThingsCombiningNuisanceFractalsHigh Points Author:Benoit Mandelbrot
“It's funny, there aren't too many musicians that also moonlight as studio engineers. There's a few - the really brilliant ones.” MusicianStudiosBrilliantEngineersMoonlight Author:Dave Grohl
“With space travel, [it's] no different. You know, in 1990 I read the name Virgin Galactic Airways. Loved the name. And set out to try to find an engineer or rocket scientist in the world who could build a safe, reusable rocket that could take people to and from space and we could start a whole new era of commercial space travel.” PeopleKnowsWorldTryingDifferentWholeNamesSpaceSafeScientistErasEngineersVirginsRocketsSpace TravelNew Era Author:Richard Branson
“Before Ruby on Rails, web programming required a lot of verbiage, steps and time. Now, web designers and software engineers can develop a website much faster and more simply, enabling them to be more productive and effective in their work.” StepsFasterDesignerProgrammingProductiveSoftwareEngineersWebsiteRailEnablingRubies Author:Bruce Perens
“One has to watch out for engineers. They begin with the sewing machine and end up with the atomic bomb.” EndsWatchesMachinesPlanningBombsEngineersUrbanAtomic BombSewingUrban Planning Author:Marcel Pagnol
“I think one possibility [in the future] might be chemotherapy. And I'm always hesitant to say that because it makes it sound like I'm against chemotherapy. Right now, chemotherapy is the best cancer treatment therapy we have. But let's say we find some way where we can almost genetically engineer the DNA of our being and fight cancer that way. Then, the idea that we used to pump poison into people to fight off cancer will almost seem like the use of leeches or something.” PeopleThinkingWayIdeasUseSeemsMightUsedFightingSoundPossibilityRight NowCancerTherapyPoisonTreatmentEngineersDnaPumpsHesitantChemotherapyLeechesCancer TreatmentFighting Cancer Author:Chuck Klosterman
“It is very unlikely that Uganda will face a chaotic scenario similar to that in Syria or other places. Incidentally, doctors, scientists, engineers and nurses are highly sought after and find jobs immediately.” JobsFacesDoctorsScientistNurseEngineersSyriaUnlikelyScenariosChaoticUganda Author:Yoweri Museveni
“Everyone told me you can't build a major tech company in Canada. There just aren't enough investors or engineers or top-level managers. Each day, I'm driven to prove them wrong.” EnoughLevelsCompanyProveMajorsDrivenManagersEach DayCanadaInvestorsEngineersProve Them Wrong Author:Ryan Holmes
“In my class was an Annapolis graduate, several engineers, and most recent president of the University of Alabama.These were all small-town people who had good values. The families were tight. The schools reaffirmed the families and reaffirmed the church values that you were taught. I guess it was just one of those swell times to be a part of.” PeopleSchoolValuesPresidentChurchClassTaughtTownsUniversityJust OneGraduatesEngineersSmall TownAlabamaGood ValuesAnnapolis Author:Jeff Sessions
“I'm going to be specific so you can render your verdict. Let's go to North Africa, she was the chief engineer of the disastrous overthrow of [Muamar] Qaddafi in Libya. Libya today after Hillary Clinton's grand strategy? Their economy's in ruins. There's death and violence on the streets, and ISIS is now dominating that country.” CountryTodayEconomyViolenceStreetsStrategyClintonRuinsChiefsEngineersIsisLibyaDominatingVerdictNorth Africa Author:Chris Christie
“I went to the graduation the other night of my first great grandchild - he's 21 or 22; and right at the graduation I looked, and 92 percent of those who graduated at the University of Illinois were females. Where can a Black female, who are now the lawyers, the engineers; they are the ones graduating with top degrees; where will they find in a Black male a counterpart that is equal to them? We are filling the jails, we are filling the prisons.” FirstsNightBlackEqualDegreesPercentFemalePrisonMalesUniversityLawyerJailGraduatesEngineersGrandchildrenFillingCounterpartsIllinoisGreat GrandchildrenBlack Males Author:Louis Farrakhan
“Ted Templeman, the producer, and Donn Landee, the engineer, are the same team that signed Van Halen, when they were called Mammoth. Donn convinced them to change it to the last name of the guitar player and drummer.” LastsNamesPlayerTeamGuitarConvincedProducersEngineersVansDrummerGuitar PlayerVan Halen Author:Sammy Hagar
“My dad is an engineer by trade but worked a lot with the people in the Indian film industry when I was growing up. He started out distributing films from India here in the '70s because there was no place to go for people to watch movies from the homeland. So he developed a network of actors, writers, directors, and musicians that became his friends and that he would tour around the country with, doing stage shows of the musical numbers from their films.” PeopleCountryShowsFilmActorsNumbersWatchesGrowing UpGrowingStageIndustryDadDirectorsMusicianIndiaTradeMusicalMy DadIndianEngineersHomelandFilm IndustryPlaces To GoWatch Movie Author:Meera Menon
“Not to forget, you are speaking with General Yasser Arafat. It's true that I am an engineer. But also I am a general. And I am religious. I believe that no one can approach me except God.” BelieveI BelieveReligiousForgetApproachEngineersForget YouArafat Author:Yasser Arafat
“I was always a silent comedy nerd. I would stay up late and sneak downstairs to watch 'Saturday Night Live' and 'Kids in the Hall,' and things like that. Very early on, my parents realized that I was not going to be an engineer or a doctor. I just don't have those inclinations, at all.” KidsNightParentWatchesComedyLateDoctorsSilentHallsEngineersSaturdayNerdInclinationSaturday NightSneakSaturday Night Live Author:Mindy Kaling
“When people think that moral problems can be solved by some simple strategy of calculation, that sets them up for ghastly overreaching. They think they can turn everything into a "science" the way mechanics was turned into a science in the seventeeth century. They want to turn everything over to technocrats and social engineers. They become shortsighted or simplistic about their ends, and they disastrously overestimate their ability to acquire the information they need to make the needed calculations.” PeopleThinkingWayWantNeedsEndsProblemTurnsSocialSimpleAbilityMoralCenturyInformationNeededStrategyAcquireEngineersMechanicCalculationsGhastlyOverestimateOverreaching Author:Allen W. Wood
“You have teenagers thinking they're going to make millions as NBA stars when that's not realistic for even 1 percent of them. Becoming a scientist or engineer is.” ThinkingInspirationalStarsMillionsBecomingPercentScientistTeenagerNbaRealisticTeensEngineersTeenage Author:Dean Kamen
“Suppose there are some things that we don't understand about the universe, but if you understand human intelligence and you understand the gaps in our abilities to think about things, maybe we can engineer in a computer more advanced intelligences that can help augment our ability to think.” IfsThinkingHumansHelpingUniverseAbilityComputerGapsEngineersHuman Intelligence Author:Edward Boyden
“I noticed a lot of bands always having a few people in the band being interested in recording and audio production, so I got the idea to create products that would appeal to them. Rather than create tools that only engineers could understand, I designed tools that any musician could use and get instant great sounding results.” PeopleIdeasUseResultsProductsBandMusicianToolsProductionsAppealsInstantEngineersAudio Author:Joey Sturgis
“In a lot of African instruments, you find a rattle, and sound engineers have a hard time making sense of it.” HardSoundInstrumentsMake SenseHard TimesEngineers Author:Justin Adams
“I am so profoundly aware of my lack of skill to make any material difference. I am not a doctor. I can't influence foreign policy. I can't build schools. I can't chemically engineer the protein paste that helps people with acute malnutrition. But I can talk about it, and so can you.” PeopleI CanHelpingSchoolDifferencesInfluencePolicyMaterialsSkillsDoctorsForeign PolicyEngineersProteinMalnutrition Author:Tom Hiddleston
“Phil Ramone and Quincy Jones were very close. Phil Ramone was one of the greatest record producers of all time. I don't know if they talk about him enough in the film, but he produced [Frank] Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, all of Billy Joel, Paul McCartney - Phil Ramone was one of the major record engineers and producers.” IfsKnowsEnoughFilmRecordsMajorsProducersAll TimeFrankEngineersRamonesStreisand Author:Robert Davi
“I was a consultant for Kodak back in the late 80's. There were engineers there who told me that in the future, most photographs would be taken on telephones. They weren't able to do anything with that. They were engineers, not management.” Would BeAbleTakenLateManagementPhotographEngineersTelephonesConsultantsKodak Author:Sam Abell
“Facebook, when it began, like Google, was very resistant to advertising. They knew, like all - Mark Zuckerberg, like all good engineers, knew that advertising makes the product worse. But, you know, over time, they've been forced to increase the advertising load more and more and more. And the way they advertise is they - it's subtle but they know everything, you know, about everybody on the site.” KnowsWayProductsIncreaseMarkAdvertisingSubtleEngineersLoadGoogleSiteZuckerberg Author:Tim Wu
“We were fortunate at that time we were working with Virgin, and with Flood, probably more well-known as Brian Eno's engineer now and U2's producer, etc. Even though we weren't working in a strictly popular music area, which was great, we were lucky enough to work with people who were on the cusp of those sort of things.” PeopleWellsEnoughKnownLuckyAreasProducersFortunateEtcEngineersFloodVirginsWell KnownBrianPopular MusicCusp Author:Stephen Mallinder
“One of my favorite things is acting like a speaker or a professor or a CEO of a company and addressing the audience like a group of engineers or designers or marketers.” ActingCompanyAudienceGroupsMy FavoriteDesignerProfessorsSpeakersEngineersCeoFavorites ThingsMarketers Author:Reggie Watts
“Unfortunately, there's a lack of roles for women of color, so you actually have to be the engineer creating some of those roles.” RolesColorCreatingEngineers Author:Octavia Spencer
“When it comes to political engagement, I'm not a politician - I'm an engineer.” PoliticalPoliticianEngagementEngineersPolitical Engagement Author:Edward Snowden
“[Barton ] Gellman printed a great anecdote: he showed two Google engineers a slide that showed how the NSA was doing this, and the engineers "exploded in profanity."” TwoEngineersGoogleSlidesPrintedNsaAnecdotesProfanity Author:Edward Snowden
“To someone like Zurbaran, who paints still lifes, lemons and pears are the objects of art. But to the electronics engineer who works on the technologies of virtual reality, the whole reality has become the object of art, with a possibility to substitute the virtual with the real.” ArtStillsRealWholeRealityTechnologyPossibilityObjectsPaintSubstitutesEngineersLemonsVirtual RealityElectronicsStill LifePears Author:Paul Virilio