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Engineer Quotes by David Foster Wallace
- Both destiny's kisses and its dope-slaps illustrate an individual person's basic personal powerlessness over the really meaningful events in his life: i.e. almost nothing important…
- Almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it.
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- I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer. — Neil Armstrong
- When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit… — Corrie Ten Boom
- My father was an engineer and my mother was a social worker, and they met as young socialists. That probably tells you… — Jo Brand
- And one of the things that I learned was you can't generalise at all about a woman in a veil. You can't… — Geraldine Brooks
- To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect. — Alexander Calder
- My mother was a housewife but she was also an artist. My father was an electrical engineer. — James Cameron
- No engineer can go upon a new work and not find something peculiar, that will demand his careful reflection, and the deliberate… — John B. Jervis
- Dealing with people is probably the biggest problem you face, especially if you are in business. Yes, and that is also true… — Dale Carnegie