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Engineering stimulates the mind. -- Bruce Dickinson
Architecture begins where engineering ends. -- Walter Gropius
Engineering is a great profession. -- Herbert Hoover
Engineering is the art or science of making practical. -- Samuel Florman
One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null word. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer. -- Jamie Zawinski
Engineering is the application of scientific principles toward practical ends. If the engineering isn't practical, it's bad engineering. -- Steve McConnell
Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design. -- Herbert Simon
Engineering is a creative practice. -- Cory Arcangel
Engineering without imagination sinks to a trade. -- Herbert Hoover
Engineering is achieving function while avoiding failure. -- Henry Petroski
Engineering is a fantastic base for any career. -- Chris Liddell
Engineering is too important to wait for science. -- Benoit Mandelbrot
Engineering is not quite as important as imagination -- Satoru Iwata
Engineering is a predictive science, not a manipulative art. -- D. Elton Trueblood
Engineering is merely the slow younger brother of physics. -- Steven Molaro
Code reuse is the Holy Grail of Software Engineering. -- Douglas Crockford
Engineering is easy - it's the people problems that are hard. -- Temple Grandin
Engineering is the closest thing to magic that exists in the world. -- Elon Musk
Engineering is a jeans and hoodie culture, and sales is more formal. -- Susan Wojcicki
Social Engineering - The art of replacing what works with what sounds good. -- Thomas Sowell
Engineering, I think you can pick up. [A data scientist's] curiosity is built-in -- Scott Nicholson
In 1978, I entered Tohoku University, into the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Technology. -- Koichi Tanaka
Scientists study the world as it is, engineers create the world that never has been. -- Theodore von Karman
Engineering isn't about perfect solutions; it's about doing the best you can with limited resources. -- Randy Pausch
Software Engineering is that part of Computer Science which is too difficult for the Computer Scientist. -- Friedrich L. Bauer
Engineering is the professional and systematic application of science to the efficient utilization of natural resources to produce wealth. -- Theodore J. Hoover
Engineering is the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man. -- Thomas Tredgold
Engineering is treated with disdain, on the whole. It's considered to be rather boring and irrelevant, yet neither of those is true. -- James Dyson
Engineering college students should be encouraged to start entrepreneurial ventures in their second year itself. It is safer to fail while in college. -- Kris Gopalakrishnan
Engineering is not only study of 45 subjects but it is moral studies of intellectual life. Make things as simple as possible..but not simpler. -- Albert Einstein
Indeed, the woes of Software Engineering are not due to lack of tools, or proper management, but largely due to lack of sufficient technical competence. -- Niklaus Wirth
Engineering and mixing are absolutely key. Once a song is done, for me personally, it's usually two or three days to get the mix down. -- Dr. Dre
Engineering undergraduates should not be charged fees. They should receive grants, not student loans, and the government will get the money back long-term from increased exports. -- James Dyson
Engineering or technology is all about using the power of science to make life better for people, to reduce cost, to improve comfort, to improve productivity, etc. -- N. R. Narayana Murthy
Science is the study of what Is, Engineering builds what Will Be. The scientist merely explores that which exists, while the engineer creates what has never existed before. -- Theodore von Karman
Hedonic Engineering -- The human nervous system studying and improving itself: intelligence studying and improving intelligence. Why be depressed, dumb, and agitated when you can be happy, smart, and tranquil? -- Robert J. Wilson
Engineering problems are under-defined, there are many solutions, good, bad and indifferent. The art is to arrive at a good solution. This is a creative activity, involving imagination, intuition and deliberate choice. -- Ove Arup
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, technology, engineering and mathematics, all rolled into one. -- Mickey Hart
It's hard to do that with people who think emotionally. A lot of people think in terms of people, emotions, and feelings. That's more complicated. Engineering mentality makes it, in theory, a little easier. -- Marc Andreessen
I am looking at opening a school of social engineering. The McAfee School of Social Engineering has a nice ring to it. Beyond that, it is hard to say what life will bring my way. -- John McAfee
Let's face it: Engineering companies in general have more men than women. Google has tried really hard to recruit women. On the other hand, we have a standard. Google tries to recruit the best engineers. -- Susan Wojcicki
Engineering is not a science. Science studies particular events to find general laws. Engineering design makes use of the laws to solve particular practical problems. In this it is more closely related to art or craft. -- Ove Arup
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. When the schools can offer that, you'll have an engineer for life. -- Bruce Dickinson
To Monsieur Eiffel the Engineer, the brave builder of so gigantic and original a specimen of modern Engineering from one who has the greatest respect and admiration for all Engineers including the Great Engineer the Bon Dieu. -- Thomas A. Edison
Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the world if more men had that sort of mental start in life even if they did not pursue the profession. -- Herbert Hoover
Engineering, like poetry, is an attempt to approach perfection. And engineers, like poets, are seldom completely satisfied with their creations. They notice, even if no one else does, the world that is not quite le mot juste, or the hairline crack that blemishes the structure. -- Henry Petroski
A problem well stated is a problem half-solved. -- Charles Kettering
An algorithm must be seen to be believed. -- Donald Knuth
I like engineering, but I love the creative input. -- John Dykstra
Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering. -- Bill Gates
Successful engineering is all about understanding how things break or fail. -- Henry Petroski
Aviation is the branch of engineering that is least forgiving of mistakes. -- Freeman Dyson
The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art. -- Leonardo da Vinci
It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering. -- Jaron Lanier
When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart. -- William Gibson
Science can amuse and fascinate us all, but it is engineering that changes the world. -- Isaac Asimov
Information theory began as a bridge from mathematics to electrical engineering and from there to computing. -- James Gleick
My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English. -- Eric Allin Cornell
There has been a substitution of ideology for fact and scientific and engineering data in this administration. -- Vinton Cerf
Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems. -- Scott Adams
I don't spend my time pontificating about high-concept things; I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems. -- Elon Musk
I received my undergraduate degree in engineering in 1939 and a Master of Science degree in mathematical physics in 1941 at Steven Institute of Technology. -- Frederick Reines
There's nothing I believe in more strongly than getting young people interested in science and engineering, for a better tomorrow, for all humankind. -- Bill Nye
The key to social engineering is influencing a person to do something that allows the hacker to gain access to information or your network. -- Kevin Mitnick
The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the 'engineering of consent' by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays. -- Noam Chomsky
After graduating in engineering I went to the University of Kansas to get an MA in economics as a vehicle for allowing me to decide if I wanted to continue in economics. -- Vernon L. Smith
And then, when I went into the Navy, there was no choice. You took about half of the hours during your naval training as naval courses and the other half were engineering. -- Daniel J. Evans
I was in school studying civil engineering. A guy approached me on the street and said that I had a interesting look-very exotic. He told me I should try to be in the industry. -- Thuy Trang
My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment - my father is an electromechanical engineer. And so there were lots of engineery things around me. -- Elon Musk
A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering. -- Freeman Dyson
In fourth grade, I learned that reading was serious business, not just a pleasant way to pass the time, and that like medicine or engineering, it had a definite, valuable purpose: to foster 'comprehension.' -- Walter Kirn
We are victims of the post-Enlightenment view that the world functions like a sophisticated machine, to be understood like a textbook engineering problem and run by wonks. In other words, like a home appliance, not like the human body. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A good engineering interview will include some set of difficult problems to solve. It might even require that the candidate write a short program. In addition, it will test the candidate's knowledge of the tools she uses in great depth. -- Ben Horowitz
The inspirational value of the space program is probably of far greater importance to education than any input of dollars... A whole generation is growing up which has been attracted to the hard disciplines of science and engineering by the romance of space. -- Arthur C. Clarke
With genetic engineering, we will be able to increase the complexity of our DNA, and improve the human race. But it will be a slow process, because one will have to wait about 18 years to see the effect of changes to the genetic code. -- Stephen Hawking
I use minimal software to make my music - a wav editor and a calculator for my beats to make sure everything falls on mathematical precision. If you were just mapping this out visually, it works by math. I guess it's slightly engineering influenced. -- Girl Talk
The best thing that ever happened to me is that nothing happened in writing. I ended up working for engineering companies, and that's where I found my material, in the everyday struggle between capitalism and grace. Being broke and tired, you don't come home your best self. -- George Saunders
Brave New World' dealt with a kind of proto-genetic engineering of the unborn, through really, as many dystopias do, it dealt with totalitarianism. The 1997 film 'Gattaca' updated 'Brave New World,' bringing us to a future where genetic testing determined your job, your wealth, your status in life. -- Ramez Naam
Every orchid or rose or lizard or snake is the work of a dedicated and skilled breeder. There are thousands of people, amateurs and professionals, who devote their lives to this business. Now imagine what will happen when the tools of genetic engineering become accessible to these people. -- Freeman Dyson
We have grown accustomed to the wonders of clean water, indoor plumbing, laser surgery, genetic engineering, artificial joints, replacement body parts, and the much longer lives that accompany them. Yet we should remember that the vast majority of humans ever born died before the age of 10 from an infectious disease. -- S. Jay Olshansky
The engineering is long gone in most PC companies. In the consumer electronics companies, they don't understand the software parts of it. And so you really can't make the products that you can make at Apple anywhere else right now. Apple's the only company that has everything under one roof. -- Steve Jobs
It's surreal to think that I own this beautiful island. It doesn't feel like anyone can own Lanai. What it feels like to me is this really cool 21st-century engineering project, where I get to work with the people of Lanai to create a prosperous and sustainable Eden in the Pacific. -- Larry Ellison
Automobiles have always been part of my life, and I'm sure they always will be. What is it about them that moves me? The sound of a great engine, the unity and uniqueness of an automobile's engineering and coachwork, the history of the company and the car, and, of course, the sheer beauty of the thing. -- Edward Herrmann
I'm in two modes when I'm on Lanai: In engineering mode, I'm trying to find the right place for the reservoir and the desalination plant, and looking at designs for new hotel rooms. The rest of the time, I'm in decompression mode. I'm on Hulopoe Beach, going for a swim, or on my paddleboard surrounded by 100 spinner dolphins. -- Larry Ellison
Especially girls, but any kids exposed to music programs and arts programs do much better on their tests. They have a better chance of going to college. They can focus better. You know, we're not just automatons learning how to work machines and do engineering and math and science. All of that's great, but you've got to build a whole person. -- Bonnie Raitt
It is a great profession. There is the fascination of watching a figment of the imagination emerge through the aid of science to a plan on paper. Then it moves to realization in stone or metal or energy. Then it brings jobs and homes to men. Then it elevates the standards of living and adds to the comforts of life. That is the engineer's high privilege. -- Herbert Hoover
Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them -- James A. Michener
The engineer has been, and is, a maker of history -- James Kip Finch
Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been -- Albert Einstein
Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems -- Scott Adams
Strive for perfection in everything you do. Take the best that exists and make it better. When it does not exist, design it -- Sir Henry Royce
Software engineering economics. -- Barry Boehm
Copying is about reverse-engineering. -- Austin Kleon
Bold objects require conservative engineering. -- James E. Webb
Death is an engineering problem. -- Bart Kosko
Meditation is the best engineering. -- Kedar Joshi
I do engineering, not religion. -- Daniel J. Bernstein
The engineering is secondary to the vision. -- Cynthia Ozick
Social engineering bypasses all technologies, including firewalls. -- Kevin Mitnick
Style is engineering that gives you freedom. -- Chris Bangle
The greatest engineering is the engineering of men. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
Science is about knowing; engineering is about doing. -- Henry Petroski
Over-engineering can create products too complex to use. -- Abhishek Ratna
One person's "paranoia" is another person's "engineering redundancy." -- Marcus J. Ranum
I'm quite into the idea of engineering being beautiful. -- Sean Booth
Happiness is German engineering, Italian cooking, and Belgian chocolate. -- Patricia Briggs
The more physics you have the less engineering you need. -- Ernest Rutherford
I don't know technology and engineering. I don't know accounting. -- Bernard Ebbers
Progress is cumulative in science and engineering, but cyclical in finance. -- James Grant
So I went for engineering, specifically product design, which I enjoyed. -- Debi Thomas
What made Manhattan Manhattan was the underground infrastructure, that engineering marvel. -- Andrew Cuomo
I did graduate with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1948. -- Daniel J. Evans
You can do reverse engineering, but you can't do reverse hacking. -- Francis Crick
The walls between art and engineering exist only in our minds. -- Theo Jansen
I was going to engineering school but fell in love with physics. -- Leonard Susskind
Environmental spending creates jobs in engineering, manufacturing, construction, materials, operations and maintenance. -- Keith Ellison
Don't ask me to put up a shelf, but I love engineering. -- Bruce Dickinson
Incurable diseases will eventually force mankind to justify disruptive nanotech and genetic engineering. -- Toba Beta
Writers acquire their technique by spotting, savoring, and reverse-engineering examples of good prose. -- Steven Pinker

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