Quotes About Engineering

Because we have a society that by and large is illiterate in these areas - science, math and engineering - what we do is a mystery to them, and they find it scary. And because of that, it creates easy opportunities for opponents of development, activist organizations, to manufacture fear.

I originally went to school for engineering because I loved math and thought I liked science.

Other kids went out and beat each other up or played baseball, and I built electronics.

Car accidents kill so many of us; we're not going to give up cars, so it seems like we ought to make them harder to crash.

We get first-rate faculty members from the leading engineering and science institutes to train our people.

We will have to make a decision, as we go into new environments outside of earth, whether we want to drag along with us all our pathogens. We can, or we can't - it's up to us - but I consider that part of genome engineering is how we interact with the huge part of our genome which is our microbiome.

When it comes to .NET they've done a really outstanding job.

In 1936, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt addressed the Third World Power Conference in Washington, D.C., on the importance of engineering in solving the nation's social problems. At the conclusion of his speech, he pressed a button that stirred the turbines in the Boulder Dam to "creative activity." "Boulder Dam," said the president as his right index finger came down, "I call you to life!

Intersections are crash magnets.

My modesty compels me to admit that there are three fields where my genius appears to feel somewhat cramped, namely, engineering, mathematics, and cookery. (Moominpappa)

A YOUNG COMPUTER ENGINEER, known to be one of the most skillful in Westborough's basement, said he had a fantasy about a better job than his. In it, he goes to work as a janitor for a computer company whose designs leave much to be desired. There, at night, disguised by mop and broom, he sneaks into the offices of the company's engineers and corrects the designs on their blackboards and desks.

Will there be a Gen5 series of Glocks?

barrels and slides

A single-stack Glock could come close, but even if Glock did it, probably not.

The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.

Leonardo Da Vinci combined art and science and aesthetics and engineering, that kind of unity is needed once again.

Cars for me are like a piece of art.

The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges.

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

Mine was the role of the oilcan in making the machinery clunk around.

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

Our vision is to rediscover the spirit of the Renaissance, create a new discipline where engineering for cultural heritage is actually a symbol of blending art and science together.

The answer in terms of technology was horizontal drilling in the form of "stages." Rather than trying to frack the length of the entire horizontal well all at once, the drillers would do so in stages, learning and experimenting and adjusting to the specific rock as they went.

Attempting to engineer prosperity without confronting the root cause of the problems—extractive institutions and the politics that keeps them in place—is unlikely to bear fruit.