Quotes of: Search-engine Keyword

As engineers, we were going to be in a position to change the world - not just study it.

Henry Petroski

We are victims of the post-Enlightenment view that the world functions like a sophisticated machine, to be understood like a textbook engineering problem and run by wonks. In other words, like a home appliance, not like the human body.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Computer programmers, biotechnologists, environmental scientists, neuroscientists, nanotech engineers - all of these fields, and more, should have at least a course in ethics as part of their degree requirements.

Jamais Cascio

Calling China's online censorship system a 'Great Firewall' is increasingly trendy, but misleading. All walls, being the creation of engineers, can be breached with the right tools.

Evgeny Morozov

Google has helped raise the importance of DNS above the network engineering community, which has been really good.

David Ulevitch

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.

L. Sprague de Camp

Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.

Edmund Wilson

There's accountability in the mutual fund industry. And they've been tremendous engines of wealth for people and they're going to continue to be so.

Jim Cramer

O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Ben Jonson

Scientists and engineers ought to stand side by side with athletes and entertainers as role models.

Barack Obama

The fact is, an America's Cup team is more than a sailing team. It's anywhere from sort of 80 to upward of 100 people; of designers, engineers, boat builders, an incredible group of people, and there are a lot of nationalities in New Zealand's team.

James Spithill

I don't know if I could rebuild an airplane engine, but I know a little bit about rotors and rivets.

Dane Cook

Information theory began as a bridge from mathematics to electrical engineering and from there to computing.

James Gleick

I identify more as a musician than as a singer, because I play piano and percussion, and I engineer and produce everything that I do.

Janina Gavankar

Basically, if reverse engineering is banned, then a lot of the open source community is doomed to fail.

Jon Johansen

Dr. Ian Malcolm: God help us, we're in the hands of engineers.

Jurassic Park

I don't spend my time pontificating about high-concept things; I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems.

Elon Musk

Title: There were two loves in his life: his engine and... [cut to his sweetheart's photograph]

The General

Dwight: A hardtop, with a decent engine. And make sure it's got a big trunk!

Sin City

Chief Engineer Olson: I can't wait to kick some Romulan ass!

Star Trek

Paul Hicks is the only guy The Beatles will allow to arrange, mix and engineer their music, so he did the Cirque du Soleil 'Love' show.

Richard LaGravenese