Engineering Quotes

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To every bushel of the powdered cement add one bushel of sand, mix them together and pass them through a sieve, then add a sufficient… — Canvass White
But, contrary to the lady's prejudices about the engineering profession, the fact is that quite some time ago the tables were turned between theory and… — Nicholas Metropolis
This attempt to ban smoking is an example of social engineering on a vast scale. Such massive intervention in the private lives and choices of… — Charles Orville Whitley
C-68 has little to do with gun control or crime control, but it is the first step necessary to begin the social re-engineering of Canada. — Sharon Carstairs
Whether you're studying electrical engineering or poetry, college is not about maximizing income, it's about becoming a better and more informed observer of the universe.… — John Green
We can and should place special emphasis on developing in our youth constructive incentives - a love of science, engineering, and math, so that they… — Ezra Taft Benson
Software Engineering is that part of Computer Science which is too difficult for the Computer Scientist. — Friedrich L. Bauer
There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day… — John Baldacci
I will build a car for the great multitude. It will be large enough for the family, but small enough for the individual to run… — Henry Ford
The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it's Microsoft Office or Windows, its… — Bill Gates
The machine code of the genes is uncannily computer-like. Apart from differences in jargon, the pages of a molecular biology journal might be interchanged with… — Richard Dawkins
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 social engineering is… — Newt Gingrich
But I decided I wanted more education and I had to make a choice between starting law school, which was interesting to me, and going… — Daniel J. Evans
A beaver does not, as legend would have it, know which direction the tree will fall when he cuts it, but counts on alacrity to… — Ann Zwinger
Man is a creative animal, doomed to strive toward a goal, engaged in full-time engineering. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
A good sermon is an engineering operation by which a chasm is bridged so that the spiritual goods on one side-the 'unsearchable riches of Christ'… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
Engineering is the professional and systematic application of science to the efficient utilization of natural resources to produce wealth. — Theodore J. Hoover
Engineers use knowledge primarily to design, produce, and operate artifacts. ... Scientists, by contrast, use knowledge primarily to generate more knowledge. — Walter Guido Vincenti
Today's water institutions-the policies and laws, government agencies and planning and engineering practices that shape patterns of water use-are steeped in a supply-side management philosophy… — Sandra Postel
The hallmark of the Renaissance was its holistic quality as all fields of art, engineering, science and culture shared the same exciting spirit and many… — Joel Garreau

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