Engineering is the application of scientific principles…

Engineering isn't about perfect solutions; it's about doing the best you can with limited resources.

— Randy Pausch

If you give up on your principles I don’t think that’s being pragmatic... Doing the wrong thing, even partially, isn’t being practical...if you have…

— Ron Paul

Just because something isn't practical doesn't mean it's not worth creating. Sometimes beauty and real-life magic are enough.

— Stephanie Perkins

The effect of the discovery of printing was evident in the savage religious wars of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Application of power to…

— Harold Innis

At every juncture, advanced tools have been the key to a new wave of applications, and each wave of applications has been key to…

— Bill Gates

“Having no applicable skills, in any possible area whatsoever, effectively makes me the master of redundancy. But that info is obsolete, like my insults…

— Will Advise

Without application of the mind; there is no drive for taking affirmative action.

— Joseph Mercado

To each eye, perhaps, the outlines of a great civilization present a different picture. In the wide ocean upon which we venture, the possible…

— Jacob Burckhardt

Everything for us is a system. We don't think about it discretely as just as a piece of hardware, or discretely as an application...…

— Hosain Rahman

“...why don't you take a picture of yourself next to a fucking job application? How about that?”

— Josh Wolf

If we blow ourselves up we will do it by misapplication of science; if we manage to keep from blowing ourselves up, it will…

— Robert A. Heinlein

I've been in real estate for a long time and I always try to stay on the edge. I'm really excited about the partnership…

— MC Hammer

Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

But we are convinced that if we are to play a meaningful role nationally, and in the community of nations, we must be second…

— Vikram Sarabhai

For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested…

— Alfred North Whitehead