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
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
We teach boys to be such men as we are. We do not teach them to aspire to be all they can.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It's [programming] the only job I can think of where I get to be both an engineer and an artist. There's an… — Andy Hertzfeld Copy Share Image
I am a former engineer and I was really excited about the possibility of building better technology to serve humanity. A lot… — Ramesh Srinivasan Copy Share Image
I want to create the airplane that flies in the rarified atmosphere of Mars. This is what galvanizes a generation to want… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Engineers have a certain mindset of how they approach problem solving. That's basically what engineers are: problem solvers. You identify the problem.… — Trevor Bauer Copy Share Image
You gotta understand also that teenage kids just don't have the experience and the studio technique. I mean, in those days it… — Hal Blaine Copy Share Image
Phil Ramone and Quincy Jones were very close. Phil Ramone was one of the greatest record producers of all time. I don't… — Robert Davi Copy Share Image
Statistics is, or should be, about scientific investigation and how to do it better, but many statisticians believe it is a branch… — George E. P. Box Copy Share Image
When you work at Google and tell these engineers that their skill set is relevant to somebody in Iran who doesn't have… — Jared Cohen Copy Share Image
Suppose there are some things that we don't understand about the universe, but if you understand human intelligence and you understand the… — Edward Boyden Copy Share Image
The Sappers really need no tribute from me; their reward lies in the glory of their achievement. The more science intervenes in… — Bernard Law Montgomery 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
Orchids manufacture their intricate devices from the common components of ordinary flowers, parts usually fitted for very different functions. If God had… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I would never talk just to be social. Now, to sit down with a bunch of engineers and talk about the latest… — Temple Grandin 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
The Yankees, the first mechanicians in the world, are engineers - just as the Italians are musicians and the Germans metaphysicians -… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
I am so profoundly aware of my lack of skill to make any material difference. I am not a doctor. I can't… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
There are now hundreds of thousands of new engineers that are being trained in China. If people start finding themselves losing their… — Iris Chang Copy Share Image
Yahoo has gone too far in wrongfully accusing us of a conspiracy that doesn't exist. If they are having problems retaining engineers,… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
To the optimist, the glass is half full. To the pessimist, the glass is half empty. To the engineer, the glass is… — Yves Behar Copy Share Image
When people think that moral problems can be solved by some simple strategy of calculation, that sets them up for ghastly overreaching.… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
I think there's always an expectation when you're a first generation, especially a first-generation Nigerian, of sort of being a doctor or… — Terry Gross Copy Share Image
The Marshall guitar amplifier doesn't just get louder when you turn it up. It distorts the sound to produce a whole range… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
[In eighteenth-century Britain] engineers for the most began as simple workmen, skilful and ambitious but usually illiterate and self-taught. They were either… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
To the engineer, all matter in the universe can be placed into one of two categories: (1) things that need to be… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
The modern recording studio, with its well-trained engineers, 24-track machines and shiny new recording consoles, encourages the artist to get involved with… — Jon Landau Copy Share Image
The best engineer a few decades ago was someone who could create the most beautiful beam or structure; today it's to do… — Jean Nouvel Copy Share Image
I think one possibility [in the future] might be chemotherapy. And I'm always hesitant to say that because it makes it sound… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
In my class was an Annapolis graduate, several engineers, and most recent president of the University of Alabama.These were all small-town people… — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
He wondered what kind of blueprint beavers had for creating such a structure-or did they simply start aimlessly weaving stuff together until… — Patrick F. McManus Copy Share Image
For me, while writing I am an engineer, so if I decide to change the format, I want to add a section,… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
We have no right to judge where we should be put, or to have preconceived notions as to what God is fitting… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Our enemy is Al Qaeda and its allies, people who have publicly said they wish to attack the United States again, people… — Richard Holbrooke Copy Share Image
Find something that you love to do, and find a place that you really like to do it in. I found something… — Ursula Burns Copy Share Image
I can go into LinkedIn and search for network engineers and come up with a list of great spear-phishing targets because they… — Kevin Mitnick Copy Share Image
My dad is an electrical engineer. So he was always very focused on, you know, teaching his daughters about, you know, science,… — Kristen Soltis Anderson Copy Share Image