It's clearly a crisis of two things: of consciousness and conditioning. We have the technological power, the engineering skills to save our… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“To maximize what you get out of your college experience, I want your friends to look at your semester schedule and say… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Model building is the art of selecting those aspects of a process that are relevant to the question being asked. As with… — John Henry Holland Copy Share Image
They say there were birds who used to soar through the skies like planes.It seems strange that a small animal could achieve… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
While THE NEW COOL takes the reader inside a season, limns a team and coaching staff, and masterfully recounts a gripping competition,… — L. Jon Wertheim Copy Share Image
My hope is that design thinking becomes an innovative discipline and not just the trend of the decade. As a nation and… — Nancy Duarte Copy Share Image
I'm against ObamaCare, which is imposing radical change, and I would be against a conservative imposing radical change… I don't think right-wing… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
Birds in flight fascinate me. I admire eagles and falcons. I’m inspired by a feather but also its color, its graphics, its… — Alexander McQueen Copy Share Image
Most scientific or engineering discoveries would never become successful products without contributions from other scientists or engineers. Every major invention is the… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
The benefits of medical research are real - but so are the potential horrors of genetic engineering and embryo manipulation. We devise… — Martin Ryle Copy Share Image
It's an enormous amount of work: there are 28 separate buildings, and I work on the choice of the colors for everything.… — John Hench 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
So that is the design process or the creative process. Start with a problem, forget the problem, the problem reveals itself or… — Paul Rand 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
“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
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
Layering and changeability: this is the key, the combination that is worked into most of my buildings. Occupying one of these buildings… — Glenn Murcutt Copy Share Image
Very few people can communicate with one another. The only language that's not subject to interpretation is mathematics, chemistry, basic science, engineering… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
Mile tracks put more emphasis on the driver. On the longer tracks, you can drive flat out all the way around, so… — Buddy Rice Copy Share Image
There really are so many lines of work that you can join that don't have to only be design. And that was… — Nina Garcia Copy Share Image
It was in the back of my mind, even while I was going to school, but it wasn't until I was at… — Leroy Chiao Copy Share Image
I've always wanted my work to be more available. I had this vision when I was younger of wanting to replace all… — Robert Lee Morris Copy Share Image
“Hollerith regarded engineers as backroom boys who worked best when they were left alone. Watson, on the other hand, was quick to… — James Essinger Copy Share Image
Men are built, not born… Give me the baby, and I'll make it climb and use its hands in constructing buildings of… — John B. Watson Copy Share Image
Tragically, some people are genetically more susceptible than others to agripoisons and industrial pollutants. Genetic engineering to correct these medical problems is… — Michael Fox Copy Share Image
“Research by Harvard Business School professor Amy Edmondson shows that in the type of psychologically safe environment that Meyer helped create, people… — Adam M. Grant Copy Share Image
Designing is a matter of concentration. You go deep into what you want to do. It's about intensive research, really. The concentration… — Peter Zumthor Copy Share Image
Organization is simply the means by which the acts of ordinary men can be made to add up to extraordinary results. To… — William Wickenden Copy Share Image
Checklists turn out...to be among the basic tools of the quality and productivity revolution in aviation, engineering, construction - in virtually every… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
It's surreal to think that I own this beautiful island. It doesn't feel like anyone can own Lanai. What it feels like… — Larry Ellison Copy Share Image
Since I was a kid, I've liked to see how things are done. Sometimes when you see how things are done, it's… — Michel Gondry Copy Share Image
We are intelligent atoms. We are intelligent organic structures. We can change who we are. We can heal ourselves. With genetic engineering,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I don't know that I ever wanted greatness, on its own. It seems rather like wanting to be an engineer, rather than… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
“Kevyn, Ennesby tells me you are building a time machine. Actually I'm finished. In one afternoon? Wow... Does it work? After a… — Howard Tayler Copy Share Image
Today, we have sophisticated building technology: we can calculate and simulate the environments and performance of the building, the thermal exposure of… — Bjarke Ingels Copy Share Image
Design is a field of concern, response, and enquiry as often as decision and consequence... it is convenient to group design into… — Norman Potter Copy Share Image
As a woman, I'm expected to want everything to be nice and to be nice myself. A very English thing. I don't… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
“The structure of life I have described in buildings - the structure which I believe to be objective - is deeply and… — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
It's true that the original idea was mine, but what you see today is the work of probably tens of thousands of… — Jack Kilby Copy Share Image