"Software will get to be somewhat more mature, ah, but it will never be as predictable as most areas of engineering."
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"Most of our competitors were one-product wonders... They would do their one product, but never get their engineering sorted out."
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"Teachers need to be more inspirational. But it's also up to engineering to make itself more interesting."
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"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."
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"The physicist's greatest tool is his wastebasket."
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"Hippocrates is an excellent geometer but a complete fool in everyday affairs."
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"In fact, the science of thermodynamics began with an analysis, by the great engineer Sadi Carnot, of the problem of how to build the best and most efficient engine, and this constitutes one of the few famous cases in which engineering has contributed to fundamental physical theory. Another example that comes to mind is the more recent analysis of information theory by Claude Shannon. These two analyses, incidentally, turn out to be closely related."
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"Any colour - so long as it's black."
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"Aviation is the branch of engineering that is least forgiving of mistakes."
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"An undertaking of great magnitude and importance, the successful accomplishment of which, in so comparatively short a period, notwithstanding the unheard of unestimable difficulties and impediments which had to be encountered and surmounted, in an almost unexplored and uninhabited wilderness . . . evinced on your part a moral courage and an undaunted spirit and combination of science and management equally exciting our admiration and deserving our praise."
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"Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering, and exploration."
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"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."
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"The Reservoir plan is an engineering mechanism applied to the field of economics, and in its essence it has nothing to do with democracy or any other political philosophy."
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"A good sermon is an engineering operation by which a chasm is bridged so that the spiritual goods on one side-the 'unsearchable riches of Christ' - are actually transported into personal lives upon the other."
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"Environmental spending creates jobs in engineering, manufacturing, construction, materials, operations and maintenance."
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"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."
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"Man is a creative animal, doomed to strive toward a goal, engaged in full-time engineering."
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"I have always made a point in my romances of basing my so-called inventions upon a groundwork of actual fact, and of using in their construction methods and materials which are not entirely without the pale of contemporary engineering skill and knowledge."
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"Transhumanism is the ethics and science of using things like biological and genetic engineering to transform our bodies and make us a more powerful species."
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"The path to the CEO's office should not be through the CFO's office, and it should not be through the marketing department. It needs to be through engineering and design."
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