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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

I studied audio engineering at university. The background I am from, music was never seen as a viable career; it was always a hobby. — Chet Faker

One fall day in Boston, a tall mechanical engineering student named Joe entered the student union at Harvard University. He was all ambition and acne — Dan Ariely

Truth can only be found in one place: the code. — Robert C. Martin

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

We don't care about what you did yesterday - we care about what you're going to do tomorrow. — Cory Doctorow

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

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

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

Basically, if reverse engineering is banned, then a lot of the open source community is doomed to fail. — Jon Johansen

The biggest engineering companies, like Schlumberger, Halliburton and others, have technology they spent billions of dollars developing. — Vagit Alekperov

Scientists study the world as it is, engineers create the world that never has been. — Theodore Von Karman

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

A country's competitiveness starts not on the factory floor or in the engineering lab. It starts in the classroom. — Lee Iacocca

The engineer's power was usually limited to a refusal to endorse a given plan, or to the tender of his resignation. — Samuel Florman

Engineering is the closest thing to magic that exists in the world. — Elon Musk

McAfee's No. 1 strength is that they have a fantastic R&D team, engineering, as well as research at the core of security: database threat management. — Renee James

That was smart, that was engineering: never reinvent something that you can buy down the street. — Robert A. Heinlein

The environmental crisis has deep spiritual, philosophical, and religious roots and causes. It is not merely the result of bad engineering. — Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Economic engineering is about the design and analysis of frameworks for achieving specific economic objectives. — Ben Bernanke

Engineering is the application of scientific principles toward practical ends. If the engineering isn't practical, it's bad engineering. — Steve McConnell

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

Never in the annals of software engineering was so much owed by so many to so few lines of code — Martin Fowler

The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large. — Tim Berners-Lee

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

It had been the most complex, difficult feat of mass-scale engineering humanity had ever accomplished until the next thing they did. — James S.A. Corey

Millennias old lies can be gradually accepted as truth.
This is the real ultimate power of historical engineering. — Toba Beta

The more physics you have the less engineering you need. — Ernest Rutherford

Engineering is the art or science of making practical. — Samuel Florman

The 'science' in 'science fiction' isn't just physics and engineering. It can also be linguistics, anthropology, and psychology. — Ann Leckie

The fewer moving parts, the better." "Exactly. No truer words were ever spoken in the context of engineering. — Christian Cantrell

My train was late, slowed by the usual Sunday engineering work. I got home in the early evening. I remember that I had a bloody good long shit. — Julian Barnes

If it hurts, do it more frequently, and bring the pain forward. — Jez Humble

Where others saw America in lovely columns, marvels of engineering, and refined democrats, Dad saw only masks concealing the heralds of woe. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

British innovation in design, in the creative arts, in engineering and manufacturing is world class. — Margaret Heffernan

Most people who sneer at technology would starve to death if the engineering infrastructure were removed. — Robert A. Heinlein

Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process. — Arthur Erickson

With the advent of genetic engineering the time required for the evolution of new species may literally collapse. — Dee Hock

Science can amuse and fascinate us all, but it is engineering that changes the world. — Isaac Asimov

copy of an aerial photo from the engineering department. — John Sandford

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 walls between art and engineering exist only in our minds. — Theo Jansen

All attempts at artificial aviation are not only dangerous to human life, but foredoomed to failure from the engineering standpoint. — Simon Newcomb

The Romans spent the next 200 years using their great engineering skill to construct ruins all over Europe. — Dave Barry

All the traditional STEM fields, the science, technology, engineering, and math fields, are stoked when you dream big in an agency such as NASA. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Engineering is the professional and systematic application of science to the efficient utilization of natural resources to produce wealth. — Theodore J. Hoover

the editor-in-chief of Screw Machine Engineering, a magazine whose name a hyphen would have improved. In — John McPhee

The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good. — L. Sprague De Camp

The central activity of engineering, as distinguished from science, is the design of new devices, processes and systems. — Myron Tribus

Social engineering has become about 75% of an average hacker's toolkit, and for the most successful hackers, it reaches 90% or more. — John McAfee

Take the best that exists and make it better. — Henry Royce

How in the fucking hell did you do that?"

Calyph shrugged. "I'm an Engineer," he said simply, as if it would explain everything. — April Adams

Software architecture is the set of design decisions which, if made incorrectly, may cause your project to be cancelled. — Eoin Woods

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In the hands of a genius, engineering turns to magic, philosophy becomes poetry, and science pure imagination. — Benjamin Disraeli

I'm quite into the idea of engineering being beautiful. — Sean Booth

Engineering is merely the slow younger brother of physics. — Steven Molaro

Life would be much easier if I had the source code. — Anonymous

Thanks to the very best in Microsoft/Intel engineering, it crashes every time you exhale too hard in its general vicinity.
Fanboy on his computer — Barry Lyga

The greatest engineering is the engineering of men. — Robert Louis Stevenson

I think a craft becomes an art form when the space of possible solutions becomes so huge that engineering can't carry you through. — Bill Budge

The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there. — Gordon Bell

We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing. — Leon Kass

I studied engineering in the national university, the Universidad Autonoma, in San Ildefonso. — Carlos Slim

Inventing is the resolution of technical contradictions. — Genrich Altshuller

Engineering-driven companies falsely assume that because they build it, the industry will magically become aware and be willing to buy it. — Brian Lawley

A simple social engineering hack might involve leaving a thumb drive on the pavement close to the driver's door of a car. — John McAfee

It's an ancient and honorable term for the final step in any engineering project. Turn it on, see if it smokes. — Lois McMaster Bujold

In 1978, I entered Tohoku University, into the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Technology. — Koichi Tanaka

One of the great inventions of the twentieth century was the studied, methodical engineering of myth for political ends. — Caryl Rivers

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

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

'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

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

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.

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

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