I've never wanted to be a doctor, I've never wanted to be an engineer, I've never had that goal, but when you're… — Eric Thomas Copy Share Image
We have to be plumbers, electricians, construction engineers, or workers, on the space station, but at the same time running a laboratory,… — Thomas Marshburn Copy Share Image
Ugly programs are like ugly suspension bridges: they're much more liable to collapse than pretty ones, because the way humans (especially engineer-humans)… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
We need a global approach to this from all sides. We need to educate people, we need the scientists to create new… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
So give me the political economist, the sanitary reformer, the engineer; and take your saints and virgins, relics and miracles. The spinning-jenny… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Thousands of engineers can design bridges, calculate strains and stresses, and draw up specifications for machines, but the great engineer is the… — Eugene Grace Copy Share Image
Engineers are not the only professional designers. Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.… — Herbert Simon Copy Share Image
Oftentimes the quality of the light tells the story: the time of day, the weather, whether sun is streaming through the window.… — Jules Fisher Copy Share Image
The monogram of our national initials, which is the symbol for our monetary unit, the dollar, is almost as frequently conjoined to… — Henry R. Towne Copy Share Image
A man with a talent does what is expected of him, makes his way, constructs, is an engineer, a composer, a builder… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Some autistic people have savant skills. All autistic people do not have savant skills. Autism is a very variable disorder varying all… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
No scientist, engineer, writer, psychologist, artist, or physician - and certainly no scholar, and therefore no serious university faculty member - pursues… — Leon Botstein Copy Share Image
The Society of American Civil Engineers, someone who's going to come in and say to the public, we've looked at, we've examined,… — Marc Morial Copy Share Image
“In all other construction disciplines, engineers plan a construction strategy that craftmen execute. Engineers don't build bridges; ironworkers do. Only in software… — Alan Cooper Copy Share Image
The two most important things about people on a revolutionary team are their ability and passion. Their educational level or work experience… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
Coolidge liked the dignity of the presidency. He didn't get on the phone easily. It's possible that he banished the phone from… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
“Trinity’s witnesses responded just as those to Apollo 11 would, as J. Robert Oppenheimer remembered: "We knew the world would not be… — Craig Nelson Copy Share Image
One effect of benefit-cost analysis is to give any respectable engineer or economist a means for justifying almost any kind of project… — Gilbert F. White Copy Share Image
It struck me that Steve Jobs, known to be such a brilliant speaker, had a very difficult time explaining things when he… — Joshua Michael Stern Copy Share Image
As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world… — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
I want young Indian composers to be able to do more than just film music. I want to give them the skills… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
I was an apprentice television engineer when I decided to pack it up and go full-time, much to my father's disgust. But… — Peter Ham Copy Share Image
The fact that the infrastructure is falling apart is not necessarily because it's built poorly. The New York City subways were built… — Alan Weisman Copy Share Image
It's my guess that something like 5% of GDP goes to money management and itsattendant friction. I define it broadly - annuities,… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
One: There is a low limit of weight [of about] 50 pounds beyond which it is impossible for an animal to fly.… — Joseph LeConte Copy Share Image
[Simon Segars ] came by a few times.I told him, "If you understand the future of the internet of things that much,… — Masayoshi Son Copy Share Image
All you do is you go back to the Maida Vale Studios at BBC in London, and it feels like you're in… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
Here is a humanist proposition for the age of Google: The processing of information is not the highest aim to which the… — Leon Wieseltier Copy Share Image
I think one of my favorite things about making low budget movies is that when you get into expensive moviemaking territory, it's… — M. Night Shyamalan Copy Share Image
When someone builds a bridge, he uses engineers who have been certified as knowing what they are doing. Yet when someone builds… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I happen to be a scientist. My background is in nuclear physics. I was a nuclear engineer. But I don't see any… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
“Do Engineers have stories, Jack?" he asked. "What?" Jack said, without moving. "Stories. Myths. Things to keep the boredom out on a… — Sam Starbuck Copy Share Image
Ambition is a gilded misery, a secret poison, a hidden plague, the engineer of deceit, the mother of hypocrisy, the parent of… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
When I was working at Omega, I took this Zen retreat, where you're quiet, you don't say anything for a week, and… — Larkin Grimm Copy Share Image
The UN should arrange, as US forces leave, for an international group of peacekeepers and negotiators from the Arab countries to bring… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Natural species are the library from which genetic engineers can work. Genetic engineers don't make new genes, they rearrange existing ones. Speaking… — Thomas Lovejoy Copy Share Image
In fact, the science of thermodynamics began with an analysis, by the great engineer Sadi Carnot, of the problem of how to… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
I was coming out of a bar in Manhattan in the rain at night. I felt lonely. Then I thought: there is… — Matthew Rohrer Copy Share Image
Hire inexperience. This year we plan to hire 200 engineers - half of whom are recent grads. Young people are not burdened… — James Dyson Copy Share Image
Every improvement or innovation begins with an idea. But an idea is only a possibility - a small beginning that must be… — Alan Robinson Copy Share Image