What made Manhattan Manhattan was the underground infrastructure, that engineering marvel.
Instead of becoming an engineer like my brother, I moved to New York to be an actor.
I'm an engineer. I see myself as a toolmaker and the musicians are my customers... They use my tools.
The poor manufacture the engines of their own destruction, but it's the rich who sell them.
I'm not even an engineer. I don't have a college degree; I hire guys with college degrees.
The scientist and the artist are both passionate about their exploration. What leads to my work is that I'm equally an artist and an engineer.
For every dollar that is spent on the (boondoggle) bridge a dollar will be taken away from taxpayers. If the bridge costs $1,000,000 the taxpayers will lose $1,000, 000. They will have that much taken away from them which they would otherwise have sp...
the larger the percentage of the national income taken by taxes the greater the deterrent to private production and employment. When the total tax burden grows beyond a bearable size, the problem of devising taxes that will not discourage and disrupt...
In a basic agricultural society, it's easy enough to swap five chickens for a new dress or to pay a schoolteacher with a goat and three sacks of rice. Barter works less well in a more advanced economy. The logistical challenges of using chickens to b...
As soon as you open your mind to doing things differently, the doors of opportunity practically fly off their hinges.
Only stilted pedants can conceive the idea that there are absolute norms to tell what is beautiful and what is not. They try to derive from the works of the past a code of rules with which, as they fancy, the writers and artists of the future should ...
...If you look at mainstream economics there are three things you will not find in a mainstream economic model - Banks, Debt, and Money. How anybody can think they can analyze capital while leaving out Banks, Debt, and Money is a bit to me like an or...
Chile has done a lot to rid itself of poverty, especially extreme poverty, since the return to democracy. But we still have a ways to go toward greater equity. This country does not have a neoliberal economic model anymore. We have put in place a lot...
My main interest, however, was in economics, not law.
Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.
I never studied sculpture, engineering or architecture. In fact, after college I applied to seven art schools and was rejected by all seven.
To see, all one has to do is look. To hear, all one has to do is listen.
Google appears to be the worst of the major search engines from a privacy point of view; Ask.com, with AskEraser turned on, is among the best.
Relying on nothing but scientific knowledge to produce an engineering solution is to invite frustration at best and failure at worst.
Everyone knows what search engines are. But relatively few know how to use them effectively.
The Internet, like the steam engine, is a technological breakthrough that changed the world.
