An engineer can do for a dollar what any fool can do for two.
“Great triumphs of engineering geniusthe locomotive, the truss bridge, the steel rail ... are rather invention than engineering proper.”
“Great triumphs of engineering genius—the locomotive, the truss bridge, the steel rail— ... are rather invention than engineering proper.”
“So a scientist and an engineer are tossed into separate rooms, stocked with tools and parts, and told that they aren't allowed out until they've produced a working prototype for a radio receiver. A...”
“Ask Gandhi, and eye for an eye makes us both blind.....ask an engineer, and the numbers don't lie - the first to strike wins.”
“I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool.”
“She doesn't need your money. Even a penniless fool like you can make her fall in love with you. That's just miracle.”
“And the world re-ordered itself around me. I spoke each word carefully. 'You are so stupid.”
“The value of doing something does not lie in the ease or difficulty, the probability or improbability of its achievement, but in the vision, the plan, the determination and the perseverance, the ef...”
“Of what use can our labour be, when the labours we record are in themselves entirely useless?”
“Anything that just costs money is cheap.”