Engineering Quotes - Page 4

I think the greatest curse of American society has been the idea of an easy millennialism -- that some new drug, or the next election or the latest in social engineering will solve everything.

Checklists turn out...to be among the basic tools of the quality and productivity revolution in aviation, engineering, construction - in virtually every field combining high risk and complexity. Checklists seem lowly and simplistic, but they help fill in for the gaps in our brains and between our brains.

The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering-that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.

Engineering without imagination sinks to a trade.

The more physics you have the less engineering you need.

...there was some kind of connection between the capacity to love and the capacity to love *running*. The engineering was certainly the same: both depended on loosening your grip on your own desires, putting aside what you wanted and appreciating what you've got, being patient and forgiving and... undemanding...maybe we shouldn't be surprised that getting better at one could make you better at the other.

An ocean traveler has even more vividly the impression that the ocean is made of waves than that it is made of water.

Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

Engineering is the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man.

Shall I refuse my dinner because I do not fully understand the process of digestion?

Engineering undergraduates should not be charged fees. They should receive grants, not student loans, and the government will get the money back long-term from increased exports.

The advance of genetic engineering makes it quite conceivable that we will begin to design our own evolutionary progress.

The Presidency is not merely an administrative office. Thats the least of it. It is more than an engineering job, efficient or inefficient. It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership. All our great Presidents were leaders of thought at times when certain historic ideas in the life of the nation had to be clarified.

With the advent of genetic engineering the time required for the evolution of new species may literally collapse.

Never in the annals of software engineering was so much owed by so many to so few lines of code

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

The first time you do something, it's science. The second time, it's engineering. The third time, it's just being a technician. I'm a scientist. Once I do something, I want to do something else.

When I became the NASA administrator — or before I became the NASA administrator — Barack Obama charged me with three things. One was he wanted me to help re-inspire children to want to get into science and math, he wanted me to expand our international relationships, and third, and perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science … and math and engineering.

I think the ethics and morals of genetic engineering are very complicated. It intrigues me.

The glory of science is, that it is freeing the soul, breaking the mental manacles, getting the brain out of bondage, giving courage to thought, filling the world with mercy, justice, and joy.

I suspect any worries about genetic engineering may be unnecessary. Genetic mutations have always happened naturally, anyway.

Science can amuse and fascinate us all, but it is engineering that changes the world.

Engineering is a predictive science, not a manipulative art.

Engineering stimulates the mind.

Being a language, mathematics may be used not only to inform but also, among other things, to seduce.