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"Crossrail is a prime example of infrastructure. It is a rather deadly word, but I think it is exciting stuff, the civil engineering which makes Britain tick - the bridges, tunnels, power and water networks, which bind us together."
"The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art."
"One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null word."
"We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power."
"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."
"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."
"The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large."
"Therefore, O students, study mathematics and do not build without foundations."
"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."
"What need the bridge much broader than the flood?"
"In the hands of a genius, engineering turns to magic, philosophy becomes poetry, and science pure imagination."
"Progress is cumulative in science and engineering, but cyclical in finance."
"In engineering, people have a big margin of safety. But in the financial world, people don't give a damn about safety. They let it balloon and balloon and balloon. It's aided by false accounting."
"It should soon be possible dramatically to increase the intelligence and life span of a few individuals. They and their offspring could become a master race. Evolution pays no regard to social justice. It was not fair on the Neanderthals they were replaced by modern humans."
"If I were 21 years old, I would go into biotechnology or genetic engineering."
"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."
"Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering."
"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 pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same."
"There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection."
"Lorenzo de' Medici seeks highly skilled, aesthetically oriented individual to conceive and implement several major public projects. You are a generalist with sound training in structural engineering, synthesis of pigments and Christian iconography. Some climbing involved"
