I have never left the company. I keep a tiny residual salary to this day because that's where my loyalty should be… — Steve Wozniak Copy Share Image
Engineers are not superhuman. They make mistakes in their assumptions, in their calculations, in their conclusions. That they make mistakes is forgivable;… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
Our journey is not complete until we find a better way to welcome the striving, hopeful immigrants who still see America as… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Usability is not everything. If usability engineers designed a nightclub, it would be clean, quiet, brightly lit, with lots of places to… — Joel Spolsky Copy Share Image
I say to the grownups, if you want to deny evolution and live in your world, that's completely inconsistent with the world… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
Everywhere I go I meet girls and boys who want to be astronauts and explore space, or they love the ocean and… — Sally Ride Copy Share Image
“To confine soldiers to purely military functions while urgent and vital tasks have to be done, and nobody else is available to… — David Galula Copy Share Image
The assumption is that people so ignorant and thoughtless and silly and greedy may simply call upon the Army Corps of Engineers… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
If car manufacturers made cars according to spec the same way software vendors make software according to spec, all five wheels would… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
Learning how to code and program computers when I was a kid was one of the best choices I made growing up.… — Robert Glaser Copy Share Image
A railroad may have to be carried over a gorge or arroya. Obviously it does not need an Engineer to point out… — Henry R. Towne Copy Share Image
Engineers in the developed world should be arguing not for protectionism but for trade agreements that seek to establish rules that result… — Brian Behlendorf Copy Share Image
“His music gave no lesser joy than a vacation. Creativity in his music and its success stood out as an example to… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
The greatest problem before engineers and managers today is the economical utilization of labor . The limiting of output by the workman,… — Henry Gantt 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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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 of my favorite things as an engineer is watching a band get comfortable in the studio and getting a great take.… — J. Robbins Copy Share Image
It's not that appealing when something sexist happens to you. But if you're strong enough, and you can push that aside and… — Emily Lazar Copy Share Image
My dad is an engineer by trade but worked a lot with the people in the Indian film industry when I was… — Meera Menon Copy Share Image
While the body is young and fine, the soul blunders, but as the body grows old it attains its highest power. Again,… — Sallust Copy Share Image
The Revolutionary's Utopia, which in appearance represents a complete break with the past, is always modeled on some image of the Lost… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
...the plan is to engineer events, real and staged, that will create enormous fear in the countdown years to 2012. This includes… — David Icke Copy Share Image
People go to work at Wall Street firms to make a lot of money. They may not love what they are doing,… — Richard Edelman 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
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 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
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
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
