Quotes About Engineering

There's no black and white dividing line between a mild Aspergers, which is the mild autism, and computer engineer, for example.

On the molecular scale, you find it's reasonable to have a machine that does a million steps per second, a mechanical system that works at computer speeds.

Science is to computer science as hydrodynamics is to plumbing.

I went to a school that's predominantly computer science and engineering. So, there's a real shortage of hot girls, let's say.

That computer was made in Alabama

One of the things that we can say with confidence is that we will have much lighter, much stronger materials, and this will reduce the cost of air flight, and it will reduce the cost of rockets.

Beware of over-confidence; especially in matters of structure.

One of the things that we can say with confidence is that we will have much lighter, much stronger materials, and this will reduce the cost of air flight, and the cost of rockets.

A turbo: exhaust gasses go into the turbocharger and spin it, witchcraft happens and you go faster.

That was excellent! I mean, it didn't do anything, but it looked really cool!

they should invent a car that stays cool inside when it is parked

All the windows were fogged over now. Neither Walt nor Lem tried to clear the misted glass. Unable to see out of the car, confined to its humid and claustrophobic interior, they seemed to be cut off from the real world, adrift in time and space, a condition that was oddly conducive to the consid eration of the wondrous and outrageous acts of creation that genetic engineering made possible.

Dorian Purcell, working with a federal agency, funded a reckless research project into the engineering of the human genome and sited the work in rural Utah—but now people were dying here. Progress was real progress only when it evolved naturally and thoughtfully from the history of human experience and accumulated wisdom. When it was imposed in contempt for that experience and wisdom, then progress was in fact radical destruction.

In 1989 I retired from Bell Laboratories to become a full-time writer. Not that I didn't enjoy my engineering career, but rather I liked being a novelist just a bit better.

I scientifically engineer my music to be as accessible as possible.

There's always something that an engineer can do to make microscopes better.

I wanted to be an engineer.

I record everything myself, I engineer everything myself.

I was always interested in water sports, water activities, and engineering.

I wanted to develop a career where I could use my engineering background to have a positive effect on society.

An 18-year-old is good enough for our business, and we can teach them engineering in two years.

I never had a doubt that I wanted to do engineering.

I was able to get a civil engineering degree and travel around the world and eat.

What people don't know is art was my deal and engineering was my sidebar.