Building software implies various stages of planning, preparation and execution that vary in kind and degree depending on what's being built. [...]… — Steve McConnell Copy Share Image
Building becomes architecture only when the mind of man consciously takes it and tries with all his resources to make it beautiful,… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
“There are times when all goes well, when I compose a sentence and stand back just to enjoy it. This sensation is… — Naoki Higashida Copy Share Image
What is innovation if not our ticket to every business interest in the world? Its the ticket to solving the worlds problems… — David Pogue Copy Share Image
Nothing is impossible. Whatever idea comes up, we always try to make it. Sometimes it doesn't work because it's just not technically… — Tomas Maier Copy Share Image
Because they are so humbled by their creations, engineers are naturally conservative in their expectations of technology. They know that the perfect… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
It is possible to get a degree in Engineering by merely passing the exams and not really learning the concepts in depth,… — Ravichandran Ashwin Copy Share Image
Those with engineering skills will build tomorrow's genius computers. But those with the ability to create knowledge of any kind will be… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
A lawyer’s either a social engineer or … a parasite on society … A social engineer [is] a highly skilled, perceptive, sensitive… — Charles Hamilton Houston Copy Share Image
I was relaxing in my parents' swimming pool with my brotherI asked him how the engineering business was going, and he reciprocated:… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
“design thinking requires bridging the “knowing-doing gap.” The tools of the design thinker—getting out into the world to be inspired by people,… — Tim Brown Copy Share Image
Shipping first time code is like going into debt. A little debt speeds development so long as it is paid back promptly… — Ward Cunningham Copy Share Image
Genetic engineering is having a serious impact on the food we eat, on the environment, and on farmers. To ensure we can… — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“There were endless stories locked into the silent, cool mass of the Wall, so many memories of stories of so long ago,… — Braam Malherbe Copy Share Image
Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
Keep a sharp lookout upon your materials; get rid of every pound of material you can do without; put to yourself the… — Henry Maudslay Copy Share Image
In fact when you combine stem cell technology with the technology known as tissue engineering you can actually grow up entire organs,… — Robert Lanza Copy Share Image
We know that to compete for the jobs of the 21st century and thrive in a global economy, we need a growing,… — Mark Pocan Copy Share Image
Design is the term we use to describe both the process and the result of giving tangible form to human ideas. Design… — Peter Lawrence Copy Share Image
We [MIT Smart Cities research group] try to identify the fundamental underlying design assumptions that everybody takes as a sort of given… — William J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
The first step toward the management of disease was replacement of demon theories and humours theories by the germ theory. That very… — Fred Brooks Copy Share Image
I use minimal software to make my music - a wav editor and a calculator for my beats to make sure everything… — Girl Talk Copy Share Image
I venture on assuring you that I regard the design formed by you and your friends with sincere interest, and in particular… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
“For Commander Ripley Jones, it was becoming more and more troublesome. It had been said that nothing is infallible, Antares apparently being… — Christina Engela Copy Share Image
Engineering is not a science. Science studies particular events to find general laws. Engineering design makes use of the laws to solve… — Ove Arup Copy Share Image
Basically with everything, I choose my criteria based on what can be easy. If I made the real world the setting, I'd… — Akira Toriyama Copy Share Image
The public should know that the liability issues here have yet to be resolved, or even raised. If you're a farmer and… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
“And you’re overthinking things, Charming. Do the math. Naked, interested man, check. Wet, willing woman, double check. Now insert part A into… — Jane Cousins Copy Share Image
Young people at universities study to achieve knowledge and not to learn a trade. We must all learn how to support ourselves,… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Put glibly: In science if you know what you are doing you should not be doing it. In engineering if you do… — Richard Hamming Copy Share Image
The real world is far too complex and unpredictable to make something like the idea of humanity controlling its own evolution or… — Ken MacLeod Copy Share Image
Architects design buildings; that's what we do, so we have to go with the flow; and, even though I'm still an old… — Richard Rogers Copy Share Image
What I'm trying to do is bring certain of those engineering values into the design process, such that when you think about… — Neri Oxman Copy Share Image
Challenger was lost because NASA came to believe its own propaganda. The agency's deeply impacted cultural hubris had it that technology-engineering-would always… — William E. Burrows Copy Share Image
I'm 100 percent sure the love and energy we give to a project will end up inside of it. I think it's… — Marcel Wanders Copy Share Image
Full employment is a socially hazardous goal. In effect, it aspires to restore through political expedients the pre-industrial state of toil that… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
The very notion that millions of workers displaced by the re-engineering and automation of the agricultural, manufacturing, and service sectors can be… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
The future of design is a future where anything material in the environment - whether it's wearables, cars, buildings - can be… — Neri Oxman Copy Share Image
“The church tower, firm in line, soaring unfalteringly to its tapering point, topped with red tiles and broad in the roof, an… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
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