33 quotes found
“Kevyn, Ennesby tells me you are building a time machine.Actually I'm finished.In one afternoon? Wow... Does it work?After a fashion....I put a whole lot of energy into it, and the next thing I knew...”
“Engineering is the continuation of politics by other means”
“Each type of knowledge has value; however, from an engineering point of view, practical knowledge seems to be more valuable than theoretical knowledge.”
“Don't be average and lazy, If you want to successes you should work hard to achieve it”
“[John] Kobak explained, 'The way you learn anything is that something fails, and you figure out how not to have it fail again.”
“Unfortunately, humans have a long history of trying to fix their engineering mistakes with more engineering mistakes!”
“One mans magic is another mans engineering. Supernatural is a null word.”
“The fewer moving parts, the better." "Exactly. No truer words were ever spoken in the context of engineering.”
“Stephenson had large wrought-iron boiler plates available and he also had the courage of his calculations... The idea found its best-known expression in the Menai railway bridge opened in 1850. Ste...”
“We tend to hear much more about the splendors returned than the ships that brought them or the shipwrights. It has always been that way. Even those history books enamored of the voyages of Christop...”
“Women, on the other hand, had to wield their intellects like a scythe, hacking away against the stubborn underbrush of low expectations.”
“A pessimist says the glass is half empty, an optimist says the glass is half full, and an engineer says the glass is too big.”
“Engineering is not only study of 45 subjects but it is moral studies of intellectual life.”
“I didn't have a drill, so I had to make my own. First I heated a long nail in the fire, then drove it through a half a maize cob, creating a handle. I placed the nail back on the coals until it bec...”
“Inventions are smarter than their inventors”
“Nothing is easier than yesterday's solutions.”
“Great triumphs of engineering geniusthe locomotive, the truss bridge, the steel rail ... are rather invention than engineering proper.”
“I emphasize that virtually every engineering calculation is ultimately a failure calculation, because without a failure criterion against which to measure the calculated result, it is a meaningless...”
“I did graduate with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1948.”
“Science is about knowing engineering is about doing. ”
