Engineering Quotes

452 quotes by 350 authors

Nothing gives us greater pride than the importance of India's scientific and engineering colleges, or the army of Indian scientists at organizations such as Microsoft… — Aravind Adiga
My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English. — Eric Allin Cornell
I don't know why I always liked aerospace engineering. I was in the 10th grade when I figured that's what I wanted to do. — Kalpana Chawla
Protein engineering is a technology of molecular machines - of molecular machines that are part of replicators - and so it comes from an area… — K. Eric Drexler
Our yearning for democracy is accompanied by a no less profound yearning for peace. And the media also faced the task of historical engineering to… — Noam Chomsky
â€¦ what society overwhelmingly asks for is snake oil. Of course, the snake oil has the most impressive names â€” otherwise you would be selling… — Edsger Dijkstra
India has the opportunity to be a leader in genetic engineering, It has institutions that no other country has. — Nina Fedoroff
One of the really remarkably beneficial aspects of genetic engineering is that much of the previous methodology for controlling pests and so forth is through… — Nina Fedoroff
Climate protection creates sustainability and jobs in the real economy - in construction, in the production of heavy machinery and in systems engineering. — Sigmar Gabriel
With the advent of genetic engineering the time required for the evolution of new species may literally collapse. — Dee Hock
I hated science in high school. Technology? Engineering? Math? Why would I ever need this? Little did I realize that music was also about science,… — Mickey Hart
The real world is far too complex and unpredictable to make something like the idea of humanity controlling its own evolution or engineering itself -… — Ken MacLeod
Shipping first time code is like going into debt. A little debt speeds development so long as it is paid back promptly with a rewrite.… — Ward Cunningham
I've always written. I'm from an older generation of programmers [who] did not come out of engineering. [A]ll sorts of people were drawn in from… — Ellen Ullman
Engineering stimulates the mind. Kids get bored easily. They have got to get out and get their hands dirty: make things, dismantle things, fix things.… — Bruce Dickinson
Teachers need to be more inspirational. But it's also up to engineering to make itself more interesting. — Bruce Dickinson
I am going to design... a Station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc. — Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Biological engineering is not necessarily understanding systems but rather, I want to be able to design and build biological systems to perform particular applications. — Drew Endy
Basically, if I have no intention of using a service then I won't bother reverse-engineering it. — Jon Lech Johansen
Basically, if reverse engineering is banned, then a lot of the open source community is doomed to fail. — Jon Lech Johansen

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