"Engineering without imagination sinks to a trade." — Herbert Hoover

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• Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold… — Jeff Bezos
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• Now the main areas of higher education that still enjoy considerable financial support from government are subjects like engineering and… — Vince Cable
• There has been a substitution of ideology for fact and scientific and engineering data in this administration. — Vinton Cerf
• During the war years I worked on the development of radar and other radio systems for the R.A.F. and, though… — Martin Ryle
• Even in such technical lines as engineering, about 15% of one's financial success is due one's technical knowledge and about… — Dale Carnegie
• With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to… — Gordon Moore
• Most people don't realize that it's not just minorities who don't do well in science and engineering - quite frankly,… — Freeman A. Hrabowski III
• In engineering, that only is great which achieves. It matters not what the intention is, he who in the day… — Henry Ward Beecher

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