McMaster had an engineering physics program and... one of the parts of it was lasers and electro-optics and I just said, 'Now… — Donna Strickland Copy Share Image
The question of engineering should be of interest not only to those of us who are engineers, but to the entire public… — Karl Taylor Compton Copy Share Image
I think the greatest curse of American society has been the idea of an easy millennialism -- that some new drug, or… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
And a building must be like a human being. It must have a wholeness about it, something that is very important. — Minoru Yamasaki Copy Share Image
When I started my engineering, I had to support my education expenses; I was then studying in what is now the National… — Sonam Wangchuk Copy Share Image
“No engineer could design something as multifunctional and fine-tuned as an anus. To call someone an asshole is really bragging him up.” — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
An ocean traveler has even more vividly the impression that the ocean is made of waves than that it is made of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A building has at least two lives - the one imagined by its maker and the life it lives afterward - and… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
“Architecture and urban design, both in their formal and spatial aspects, are seen as fundamentally configurational in that the way the parts… — Bill Hillier Copy Share Image
A fierce and monkish art; a castigation of the flesh. You must cut out your imagination and not fly an airplane but… — Wolfgang Langewiesche Copy Share Image
“In literature, too, we admire prose in which a small and astutely arranged set of words has been constructed to carry a… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“To an engineer, only the ingenuity of pragmatic solutions is poetic. Function over form. It’s not a question of optimism or pessimism,… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
Every design is a rigorous attempt to capture a concrete moment of a transitory image in all its nuances. The extent to… — Alvaro Siza Vieira Copy Share Image
About half of all design patterns out there [...] appear to be ways take perfectly natural design ideas and twist them to… — Steve Yegge Copy Share Image
“...we shall connect the points, draw the line, and you and I shall form that unique design for which I yearn. If… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
A good sermon is an engineering operation by which a chasm is bridged so that the spiritual goods on one side-the 'unsearchable… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
I heard 'More Than A Feeling' for the first time when somebody came running into my office in the engineering department and… — Tom Scholz Copy Share Image
How much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Genetic engineering is a result of science advancement, so I don't think that in itself is bad. If used wisely, genetics can… — Hideo Kojima Copy Share Image
As a guide to engineering ethics, I should like to commend to you a liberal adaptation of the injunction contained in the… — Hyman Rickover Copy Share Image
Failure is central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation. Successful engineering is all about understanding… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
No one wants to learn from mistakes, but we cannot learn enough from successes to go beyond the state of the art. — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
Our business model is primarily that of consulting, engineering, system integration, and managed services. — Azim Premji Copy Share Image
The idea of 'machine assemblage' is, especially, very alien to my sensibility, since it suggests a relative indifference of the strata to… — Brian Ferneyhough Copy Share Image
The secretary of Homeland Security working with myself and my staff will begin immediate construction of a border wall. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Indeed, the woes of Software Engineering are not due to lack of tools, or proper management, but largely due to lack of… — Niklaus Wirth Copy Share Image
It's all about having a product that you're proud of and coming to work every day. Those basic building blocks are the… — Greg Brenneman Copy Share Image
The meaning and design of a problem seem not to lie in its solution, but in our working at it incessantly. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Government has ceased to mean upholding and reinforcing the traditional rights and morals of the governed; it now means compulsion in the… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Not a piece of architecture, as other buildings are, but the proud passions of an emperor's love wrought in living stones. — Edwin Arnold Copy Share Image
When I was young, all we ever heard about was functionalism, functionalism, functionalism. It’s not enough. Design should also be sensual and… — Ettore Sottsass Copy Share Image
Design has become a universal medium for expressing ideas, raising fundamental questions, and addressing social challenges. — Jens Martin Skibsted Copy Share Image
At our house we have come to conclude that building and strengthening character will require extreme measures and the intentional pursuit of… — Ben Sasse Copy Share Image
If I wanted to do clothes or if I wanted to make a building or design a choreography, you are able to… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
Unless you took courses in architecture, engineering, or pre-med, the rest of your liberal arts education hardly prepares you for life as… — Gene Simmons Copy Share Image
Shoes are by far the most complicated thing to bring to market. It's not just design. You need engineering. — Kenneth Cole Copy Share Image
In the broad sense design means thinking about what the function or purpose of things or processes are, and translating that into… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
If you've found some way to educate yourself about engineering, stocks, or whatever it is, good employers will have some type of… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Character is built out of circumstances. From exactly the same materials, one man builds palaces, while another builds hovels. — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Designs are a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life. — Geoffrey Beene Copy Share Image
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