Quotes of: Economic-engine Keyword

Well,” her mother said, looking at the engine, “at least that’s still there.” "Do you know anything about engines?" Stephanie asked. "That’s why I have a husband, so I don't have to. Engines and shelves, that’s why men were invented." Ste...

Skulduggery Pleasant

Economic development is something much wider and deeper than economics, let alone econometrics. Its roots lie outside the economic sphere, in education, organisation, discipline and, beyond that, in political independence and a national consciousness...

Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered

You know, this iPhone, as a matter of fact, the engine in here is made in America. And not only are the engines in here made in America, but engines are made in America and are exported. The glass on this phone is made in Kentucky. And so we've been ...

Tim Cook

I hope climate science becomes the big thing. And then what I want is electrical engineers to solve the world's energy problems, energy distribution problems. I want mechanical engineers to make better transportation systems. I want chemical engineer...

Bill Nye

My dad wanted me to be a professional person, which I was - I was a civil engineer. I graduated from civil engineering at USC in California. I became an engineer, and I helped design the roads for the L.A. County Roads Department. And I did that for ...

James Hong

A common misconception about how things such as space shuttles come to be is that engineers simply apply the theories and equations of science. But this cannot be done until the new thing-to-be is conceived in the engineer's mind's eye. Rather than f...

Henry Petroski

The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising.

Kit Williams

My father was a construction engineer, and my mother was a production engineer.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Many of the engineers I interviewed worked on reverse-engineering technology. It's a hallmark of Area 51.

Annie Jacobsen

It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering.

Jaron Lanier

Engineer: If they were to give me two more excavators, I'd be a year ahead of the plan by now. Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago: You're an impatient generation. Engineer: Weren't you? Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago: Yes, we were, very. Oh, don't be so impatient, Comrade E...

Doctor Zhivago

My very first records, I was very interested in how you get the particular quality you want out of it, and I began to learn about the engineering and aspects of production and things very early on. I got hands-on with the process and taught myself ho...

Todd Rundgren

When I was little, I wanted to be a civil engineer. Not a ballerina, not a doctor, a civil engineer. I was such a nerd.

Bitsie Tulloch

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

Dee Hock

Search engines finds the information, not necessarily the truth.

Amit Kalantri

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

Roger Spottiswoode

A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.

Freeman Dyson

I was in chemical engineering at Cornell University. My girlfriend at the time dared me to do a play. I knew there was something I wanted, not necessarily engineering.

Ato Essandoh

It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.

Jose Saramago

There are excellent public interest grounds to have a search engine whose rankings are transparent.

Mitch Kapor

India has the opportunity to be a leader in genetic engineering, It has institutions that no other country has.

Nina Fedoroff