When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.
[first lines] [the garbage truck's engine stops] Truck Driver: What the hell? Goddamn son of a bitch...
The story of Google is just when everyone concluded that a search engine would never make any money, everyone backed out of it, and Google walked into that vacuum and dominated.
I think the internal combustion engine will disappear from the streets of our cities in the next thirty years because transportation will be mass transportation, or probably electrical power.
I believe that science is the engine of prosperity, that if you look around at the wealth of civilization today, it's the wealth that comes from science.
All the traditional STEM fields, the science, technology, engineering, and math fields, are stoked when you dream big in an agency such as NASA.
Most people are really stunned to find out that the technology has been around for more than 100 years, and that the diesel engine was in fact invented to run on vegetable oil.
Engineering producers who don't play and have technology as a background may be the reason why there's a lot of cold non-musical music, for lack of a better description.
Real men study law and engineering, while ideas and values are for sissies. The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name.
Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty.
My brain as the engine, with thoughts trailing to the caboose, on a one-track mind we keep going forward.
I fix the human chassis, I tune up human engines, I recharge human batteries, and I adjust human transmissions.
Google transformed the way most of us get our information with a search engine that enables us to find citizen-created media content alongside the work of professionals.
Many people think all I do is some random engineering work in between caving expeditions. It's been far more deliberate than that.
Having a mother who had been an aeronautical engineer convinced me that more things should be open to women.
Every economic opinion is associated with a set of assumptions.
Economics Teacher: Bueller?... Bueller?... Bueller?
This paper was one of my digressions into abstract economics.
Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
[Marty and Doc are asking how fast the train could go] Marty McFly: Do you think it's possible to get it up to... 90? Engineer: Ha! 90? Tarnation, son, who'd ever need to be in such a hurry? Doc: Well, it's just a little bet he and I have, that's all...
Everything we get, outside of the free gifts of nature, must in some way be paid for. The world is full of so- called economists who in turn are full of schemes for getting something for nothing. They tell us that the government can spend and spend w...
