Quotes About Engineering

The greatest social consequence of the Darwinian revolution was the grudging acceptance by humans that humans were random descendants of monkeys, neither perfect nor engineered. The greatest social consequence of neo-biological civilization will be the grudging acceptance by humans that humans are the random ancestors of machines, and that as machines we can be engineered ourselves.

In the bowels of the flush toilet we see the archetype for all autonomous mechanical creatures

As AIs develop, we might have to engineer ways to prevent consciousness in them. Our most premium AI services will likely be advertised as consciousness-free.

As Tony Hoare observed: There are two ways of constructing a software design: one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies and the other is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.

When Angkorian society began, Paris and London were not much more than elaborate villages. Europe was crawling with barbarians, and here were the Khmer engineering sophisticated irrigation systems and constructing the biggest temple in the world.

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

The Faculty of Technology of Tohoku University is renowned for its tradition of practical studies.

For the record, a mechanical engineer is responsible for how just about anything is built. We make sure any type of structure or vehicle or roadway is strong, safe and will stay together.

Design is important, it's an important dimension in the car. It's not the only one.

Now, in the twenty-first century, the sector of the U.S. economy that accounts for more than 50 percent of our sustained economic expansion, science and engineering, is relying on an ever-dwindling skilled and educated workforce. Whereas at one point, "about 40% of the world's scientists and engineers resided in the U.S.," according to Rodney C. Adkins, senior vice president of IBM, "that number [had] shrunk to about 15%" by 2012.133

Driving race cars was an avenue for me to learn how to build my own car, and that was my ambition all along.

It's a massive motor in a tiny, lightweight car.

Growing up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, I was fascinated by mechanical and electrical gadgets—anything with a cord, a plug, a battery, a light, a motor.

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.

I started out in engineering. I was a geophysical engineer. Throughout the course of my life I've done a lot of strange jobs, and the effect has been to make me think a little more skeptically about our capitalist society.

I happened on the idea of fitting an engine to a bicycle simply because I did not want to ride crowded trains and buses.

Medieval Technology? The Middle Ages invented, among other things, the crank, the horse collar, eyeglasses, the flying buttress, the stirrup, the windmill, the wheelbarrow, printing, firearms, paper, the canal lock, the compass, the rudder, the mechanical clock, the spinning wheel, and the treadle.

It's engineering, man. Something might look bright and shiny on the outside, but the structure's what counts.

It's engineering, man. Something might look bright and shiny on the outside, but the structure's what counts.

I like to think of myself more as an outcome engineer.

She smiled a little. "You are a manipulator." "I like to think of myself more as an outcome engineer

If you look at other countries, you'll find lots of girls doing physics, engineering, and science. It's something to do with the kind of culture we have in the English-speaking world about what's appropriate for each of the two sexes.

Personally I'm more into science and engineering types of things, not so much into testing 'Star Wars' myths.

The deep learning techniques, while relatively easy to learn, are quite foreign to traditional engineering modalities. It takes a different mindset and a relaxation of the presumption of control. The practitioners are like magi, sequestered from the rest of a typical engineering process.