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Social Engineering - The art of replacing what works with what sounds good. — Thomas Sowell

Aviation is the branch of engineering that is least forgiving of mistakes. — Freeman Dyson

My dad and my mom convinced me to go into biomedical engineering because they said astronauts going to Mars will need life support systems. — Rony Abovitz

We really fucked up the engineering on this — Walter Isaacson

Margareth is a bad influence for her."
"We all love Margareth. Don't be too hard on her."
"It's a nerd school, Papa. Engineering school. — Rea Lidde

Thirty percent of Americans have German blood in their family. I don't see any major difference in the engineering abilities of Americans and Germans. — Hasso Plattner

To his and everybody else's way of thinking, you should build a house with your own hands before you start talking about being an engineer. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Art Nouveau got its inspiration from nature. The Bauhaus got its inspiration from engineering. — P. J. O'Rourke

When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart. — William Gibson

Generally, the craft of programming is the factoring of a set of requirements into a a set of functions and data structures. — Douglas Crockford

I went to engineering school, I went to physics class. I said, 'Screw this, I don't want to be here. I'd much rather be at a club playing music.' — Huey Lewis

I have succeeded in getting my actual work down to thirty minutes a day. That leaves me eighteen hours for engineering. — Charles Proteus Steinmetz

The letter e may now no longer be used to denote anything other than this positive universal constant. — Edmund Landau

Great triumphs of engineering genius - the locomotive, the truss bridge, the steel rail - ... are rather invention than engineering proper. — Arthur Mellen Wellington

I don't know technology and engineering. I don't know accounting. — Bernard Ebbers

The 19th century was the great period of engineering, thanks to the railways, thanks to lots of discoveries in metallurgy. — Joe Harris

Engineering without imagination sinks to a trade. — Herbert Hoover

To focus on the visible at the expense of the essential is irresponsible. — Bertrand Meyer

There's just one other twist. Googlers working in engineering or product management can nominate themselves for promotion. — Laszlo Bock

In engineering colleges, they have seating plans ... And Students have cheating plans. — Lovely Goyal

The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned. — Frederick P. Brooks Jr.

Smart isn't enough. The kind of people I want on my research team are those who will help everyone else feel happy to be here. p118 — Randy Pausch

No one expected a first year engineering student to build the perfect bridge. — Janet Evanovich

Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology. — Karl Popper

Meditation is the best engineering. — Kedar Joshi

I never had a doubt that I wanted to do engineering. — Mo Ibrahim

In these highways our engineering will reflect the National Socialist movement. — Fritz Todt

Progress is cumulative in science and engineering, but cyclical in finance. — James Grant

In the next decade we plan to create the first gender balance engineering school in Africa. We believe women should be part of the solution. — Patrick Awuah Jr.

For every scientific (or engineering) action, there is an equal and opposite social reaction. — Norman Ralph Augustine

You can do reverse engineering, but you can't do reverse hacking. — Francis Crick

Proper accounting is like engineering. You need a margin of safety. Thank God we don't design bridges and airplanes the way we do accounting. — Charlie Munger

He informed Byrdie that his social engineering ambitions betrayed all the delusions of grandeur that you might expect from the son of a poet. — Nell Zink

I believe, given enough time, all of engineering will move to paradigms based on the biological cell. — Brian Bennudriti

The future of Africa is in innovative engineering. — Erik Hersman

I was attracted to things that combined art and science equally. I've always been equally interested in art design, science and engineering. — Bran Ferren

For the future, primarily, we must educate people in science, engineering, technology and math. — Buzz Aldrin

Information theory began as a bridge from mathematics to electrical engineering and from there to computing. — James Gleick

Successful engineering is all about understanding how things break or fail. — Henry Petroski

You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance. — Ken Robinson

The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art. — Leonardo Da Vinci

Code reuse is the Holy Grail of Software Engineering. — Douglas Crockford

When you engineer early successes, what you're really doing is engineering hope. Hope is precious to a change effort. — Chip Heath

I would staple a green card to the diploma of anyone that graduates with a degree in the physical sciences or engineering in the U.S. — John Doerr

Failure is Central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation. — Henry Petroski

I like engineering, but I love the creative input. — John Dykstra

Communication is like the basics of mechanical engineering, the more moving parts you have the more likely it is to break down! — Garrison Wynn

Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences - large scale engineering, neuroscience. — Paolo Bacigalupi

What's nice about having an engineering degree is everybody thinks you are smart. — Ato Essandoh

Environmental spending creates jobs in engineering, manufacturing, construction, materials, operations and maintenance. — Keith Ellison

Happiness is German engineering, Italian cooking, and Belgian chocolate. — Patricia Briggs

Art and design are not luxuries, nor somehow incompatible with science and engineering, — Bran Ferren

The perfect kind of architecture decision is the one which never has to be made — Robert C. Martin

Software development is neither a scientific nor an engineering task. It is an act of reality construction that is political and artistic. — David West

Teachers need to be more inspirational. But it's also up to engineering to make itself more interesting. — Bruce Dickinson

Most of our competitors were one-product wonders ... They would do their one product, but never get their engineering sorted out. — Bill Gates

If it is not written down, it does not exist. — Philippe Kruchten

Women, on the other hand, had to wield their intellects like a scythe, hacking away against the stubborn underbrush of low expectations. — Margot Lee Shetterly

Referring to his success in engineering the appointment — Paul M. Barrett

Science is about knowing; engineering is about doing. — Henry Petroski

'Social engineering,' the fancy term for tricking you into giving away your digital secrets, is at least as great a threat as spooky technology. — Barton Gellman

Hippocrates is an excellent geometer but a complete fool in everyday affairs. — Aristotle.

The most dangerous belief for any software company today is that the solution to their adoption problem lies in better software engineering. — Stephen O'Grady

Maybe after the first dozen times it happened, the Universal Union should have started engineering for space defenestration. NICK — John Scalzi

I admire Miken's exceptional engineering capabilities and was drawn to their passion for hockey and drive to be the best in all they do. — Brett Hull

You see, my ambition was not to confound the engineering world but simply to create a beautiful piece of art. — Kit Williams

I suspect any worries about genetic engineering may be unnecessary. Genetic mutations have always happened naturally, anyway. — James Lovelock

Knowing there is a structure, hidden or felt, to the random gives pleasure. — Cecil Balmond

Engineering is a fantastic base for any career. — Chris Liddell

One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null word. — Robert A. Heinlein

Legislating morality grows big government immensely, and helps fashion the noose the government will use to ultimately hang you by. — A.E. Samaan

Every living thing, never forget, is a wonder of atomic engineering. Indeed, — Bill Bryson

What made Manhattan Manhattan was the underground infrastructure, that engineering marvel. — Andrew Cuomo

The science and engineering of programming just isn't good enough to produce flawless software, and that isn't going to change anytime soon. The — Bruce Schneier

Productivity is most important by engineering management rules, but enjoyment is most important for engineers. One stems from the other. — Rob Pike

improvements and drive engineering excellence across — Anonymous

To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing for 10 shillings what any fool can do for a pound — Duke Of Wellington

I know how tough engineering school can really be, but it's worth it. — Brian Krzanich

I believe in the unlimited power of women in the context of science and engineering. — Elizabeth Holmes

Basically, if I have no intention of using a service then I won't bother reverse-engineering it. — Jon Johansen

The Mississippi River will always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise ... — Mark Twain

Edward Bellamy's eugenic utopian novel, "Looking Backward" was the inspiration for American Progressivism. — A.E. Samaan

Engineering is a basic instinct in man, the expression of which is existentially fulfilling. — Samuel Florman

Change flows organically from the students themselves. — David Edward Goldberg

Engineering is easy - it's the people problems that are hard. — Temple Grandin

Incurable diseases will eventually
force mankind to justify
disruptive nanotech and genetic engineering. — Toba Beta

The notion that better engineering can solve all our problems is rooted in an ignorance of non-linear systems and selective/wishful thinking. — Charles Hugh Smith

Software Engineering is that part of Computer Science which is too difficult for the Computer Scientist. — Friedrich L. Bauer

Communication engineering began with Gauss, Wheatstone, and the first telegraphers. — Norbert Wiener

Style is engineering that gives you freedom. — Chris Bangle

Death is an engineering problem. — Bart Kosko

I think they are a better race than humans ever were. — Angelo Tsanatelis

The switch from 'steam engines' to 'heat engines' signals the transition from engineering practice to theoretical science. — Hans Christian Von Baeyer

Combining influencing tactics, such as authority and scarcity, can strengthen any social engineering campaign for maximum results. — Jeremiah Talamantes

A hacker is someone who uses a combination of high-tech cybertools and social engineering to gain illicit access to someone else's data. — John McAfee

Many of the issues we face in dealing with rapid climate change are well suited to an engineering mind. — Larry Brilliant

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

Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems. — Scott Adams

Genetic engineering has never been about saving the world, it's about controlling the world. — Vandana Shiva

Ferris had created more than simply an engineering novelty. Like the inventors of the elevator, he had conjured an entirely new physical sensation. — Erik Larson