Motoyama Engineering Quotes

Engineering is not merely knowing and being knowledgeable, like a walking encyclopedia; engineering is not merely analysis; engineering is not merely the possession of the capacity to get elegant solutions to non-existent engineering problems; engineering is practicing the art of the organizing forces of technological change ... Engineers operate at the interface between science and society. ~ Gordon S. Brown

So far we have done too much of 'spatial engineering'. The real thing is 'non-spatial engineering'. ~ Kedar Joshi

Engineering-driven companies falsely assume that because they build it, the industry will magically become aware and be willing to buy it. ~ Brian Lawley

I did graduate with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1948. ~ Daniel J. Evans

Go for civil engineering, because civil engineering is the branch of engineering which teaches you the most about managing people. Managing people is a skill which is very, very useful and applies almost regardless of what you do. ~ John Harvey-Jones

The greatest engineering is the engineering of men. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

[Software engineering is the] establishment and use of sound engineering principles to obtain economically software that is reliable and works on real machines efficiently. ~ Friedrich L. Bauer

What we usually consider as impossible are simply engineering problems ... there's no law of physics preventing them. ~ Michio Kaku

Social engineering bypasses all technologies, including firewalls. ~ Kevin Mitnick

Engineering is not a science. Science studies particular events to find general laws. Engineering design makes use of the laws to solve particular practical problems. In this it is more closely related to art or craft. ~ Ove Arup

I think the ethics and morals of genetic engineering are very complicated. It intrigues me. ~ Roger Spottiswoode

Genetic engineering is a result of science advancement, so I don't think that in itself is bad. If used wisely, genetics can be beneficial, but they can be abused, too. ~ Hideo Kojima

Some says that genetic engineering is within the scope of the God! Well, it was so, that area would have been encircled with the impassable high walls! Mankind cannot lose its time with this kind of religious craps! Genetic engineering is our garden! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

... what society overwhelmingly asks for is snake oil. Of course, the snake oil has the most impressive names - otherwise you would be selling nothing - like "Structured Analysis and Design", "Software Engineering", "Maturity Models", "Management Information Systems", "Integrated Project Support Environments" "Object Orientation" and "Business Process Re-engineering". ~ Edsger Dijkstra

The question of engineering should be of interest not only to those of us who are engineers, but to the entire public which lives in an engineering world ~ Karl Taylor Compton

I am looking at opening a school of social engineering. The McAfee School of Social Engineering has a nice ring to it. Beyond that, it is hard to say what life will bring my way. ~ John McAfee

Engineering, I think you can pick up. [A data scientist's] curiosity is built-in ~ Scott Nicholson

It is a simple feat of scientific electrical engineering - only expensive - blind, faint-hearted, doubting world. ~ Nikola Tesla

Engineering is merely the slow younger brother of physics. ~ Steven Molaro

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. ~ Ron Paul

Today when a man gets married he gets a home, a housekeeper, a cook, a cheering squad and another paycheck. When a woman marries, she gets a boarder. To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing that well with one dollar, which any bungler can do with two after a fashion. ~ Duke Of Wellington

Style is engineering that gives you freedom. ~ Chris Bangle

The key to social engineering is influencing a person to do something that allows the hacker to gain access to information or your network. ~ Kevin Mitnick

The fewer moving parts, the better." "Exactly. No truer words were ever spoken in the context of engineering. ~ Christian Cantrell

India has the opportunity to be a leader in genetic engineering, It has institutions that no other country has. ~ Nina Fedoroff

Building on our successful partnership, we can now bring together the best of Microsoft's software engineering with the best of Nokia's product engineering, award-winning design, and global sales, marketing and manufacturing, ~ Stephen Elop

Man is a creative animal, doomed to strive toward a goal, engaged in full-time engineering. ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky

Engineering is a basic instinct in man, the expression of which is existentially fulfilling. ~ Samuel Florman

In the hands of a genius, engineering turns to magic, philosophy becomes poetry, and science pure imagination. ~ Benjamin Disraeli

No one expected a first year engineering student to build the perfect bridge. ~ Janet Evanovich

Engineering is the art or science of making practical. ~ Samuel Florman

Social Engineering - The art of replacing what works with what sounds good. ~ Thomas Sowell

Progress is cumulative in science and engineering, but cyclical in finance. ~ James Grant

The most troublesome problem which confronts social engineering is how to provide for the untalented and, what is equally important, how to provide against them. ~ Eric Hoffer

I am so old, I entered engineering school with a slide rule. And I left engineering school with a calculator. I can still use a slide rule but it's not a skill you especially need anymore. ~ Bill Nye

Techniques such as genetic engineering, psychoactive drugs and electronic control of the brain make possible a transformation of the species into docile, fully-obedient, 'safe' organisms. ~ William Sims

With the advent of genetic engineering the time required for the evolution of new species may literally collapse. ~ Dee Hock

Millennias old lies can be gradually accepted as truth.
This is the real ultimate power of historical engineering. ~ Toba Beta

Failure is Central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation. ~ Henry Petroski

I always say prepare to be a coach to anybody who wants to be a coach. At 24 years of age when I left engineering to become full time in football, I made sure that I was never going back to engineering. ~ Alex Ferguson

Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called an engineering discipline. ~ William J. Clinton

There are hundreds of miracles within a single machine. Americans calmly explain these with mathematical formulas. Our difficulty is to learn, theirs to appreciate. ~ Warren Eyster

Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral ~ Melvin Kranzberg

The notion that better engineering can solve all our problems is rooted in an ignorance of non-linear systems and selective/wishful thinking. ~ Charles Hugh Smith

Engineering is a great profession. ~ Herbert Hoover

Science can amuse and fascinate us all, but it is engineering that changes the world. ~ Isaac Asimov

In engineering colleges, they have seating plans ... And Students have cheating plans. ~ Lovely Goyal

Hey, if I had my choice for social engineering, I'd declare an automatic R-rating for any movie that depicts television commercials. There's a truly dangerous influence on our children. ~ Marshall Herskovitz

Death and taxes are unsolved engineering problems ~ Romana Machado

Knowing there is a structure, hidden or felt, to the random gives pleasure. ~ Cecil Balmond

Engineering -nature is engineering, so is culture, science is right behind, only chaos is not an engineer- and, along with it, the furious need to reproduce. ~ Elena Ferrante

Engineering is the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man. ~ Thomas Tredgold

At that time [1909] the chief engineer was almost always the chief test pilot as well. That had the fortunate result of eliminating poor engineering early in aviation. ~ Igor Sikorsky

Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology. ~ Karl Popper

C-68 has little to do with gun control or crime control, but it is the first step necessary to begin the social re-engineering of Canada. ~ Sharon Carstairs

PayPal once rejected a candidate who aced all the engineering tests because for fun, the guy said that he liked to play hoops. That single sentence lost him the job. ~ Max Levchin

The dollar is the final term in almost every equation which arises in the practice of engineering in any or all of its branches, except qualifiedly as to military and naval engineering, where in some cases cost may be ignored. ~ Henry R. Towne

The more physics you have the less engineering you need. ~ Ernest Rutherford

I still haven't heard anything from Apple about my hacks. There is a tool based on my work reverse-engineering Apple's FairPlay called jhymn that's been hosted on a U.S. server for over a year and nothing has happened. ~ Jon Johansen

Never in the annals of software engineering was so much owed by so many to so few lines of code ~ Martin Fowler

The Reservoir plan is an engineering mechanism applied to the field of economics, and in its essence it has nothing to do with democracy or any other political philosophy. ~ Benjamin Graham

I would staple a green card to the diploma of anyone that graduates with a degree in the physical sciences or engineering in the U.S. ~ John Doerr

Only when I began studying chemical engineering at Oregon Agricultural College did I realize that I myself might discover something new about the nature of the world. ~ Linus Pauling

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Advanced engineering always, like advanced everything else, brings down upon it the discredit of ridicule of minds who cannot see so far. ~ Alfred P. Sloan

The Romans spent the next 200 years using their great engineering skill to construct ruins all over Europe. ~ Dave Barry

The same undisciplined government spending and social engineering that has undermined our economy over the past 30 years has also been tearing at the social fabric of this land. ~ Stockwell Day

The 19th century was the great period of engineering, thanks to the railways, thanks to lots of discoveries in metallurgy. ~ Joe Harris

I used to be a chemical-engineering student, but I started studying acting, and I went for a cattle call, up against hundreds of people. They tore me down because I was too tall. They said "How tall are you?" "6'5"." "Next. ~ Dolph Lundgren

Government has ceased to mean upholding and reinforcing the traditional rights and morals of the governed; it now means compulsion in the service of social engineering. ~ Joseph Sobran

Most people don't realize that it's not just minorities who don't do well in science and engineering - quite frankly, you're talking about Americans. ~ Freeman A. Hrabowski III

Engineering problems are under-defined, there are many solutions, good, bad and indifferent. The art is to arrive at a good solution. This is a creative activity, involving imagination, intuition and deliberate choice. ~ Ove Arup

One person's "paranoia" is another person's "engineering redundancy." ~ Marcus J. Ranum

The purpose of a business is to get and keep a customer. Without customers, no amount of engineering wizardry, clever financing, or operations expertise can keep a company going. ~ Theodore Levitt

One of the really remarkably beneficial aspects of genetic engineering is that much of the previous methodology for controlling pests and so forth is through chemicals that affect a very broad spectrum of insects, for example, or fungicides that control fungi. ~ Nina Fedoroff

He informed Byrdie that his social engineering ambitions betrayed all the delusions of grandeur that you might expect from the son of a poet. ~ Nell Zink

This is not the internet the world needs, or the internet its creators envisioned. We need to take it back. And by we, I mean the engineering community. ~ Bruce Schneier

The engineering is secondary to the vision. ~ Cynthia Ozick

Engineering is not quite as important as imagination ~ Satoru Iwata

Engineering is a creative practice. ~ Cory Arcangel

I think the greatest curse of American society has been the idea of an easy millennialism
that some new drug, or the next election or the latest in social engineering will solve everything. ~ Robert Penn Warren

The central activity of engineering, as distinguished from science, is the design of new devices, processes and systems. ~ Myron Tribus

Engineering and mixing are absolutely key. Once a song is done, for me personally, it's usually two or three days to get the mix down. ~ Dr. Dre

I believe in the unlimited power of women in the context of science and engineering. ~ Elizabeth Holmes

My father was a master carpenter and builder. Architectural design, engineering design, mechanical design, three-dimensional views, that was my shtick, my forte. ~ Bobby Seale

Engineering is a predictive science, not a manipulative art. ~ D. Elton Trueblood

A classic engineering mistake and one I've made is confusing what is hard and what is valuable. ~ Max Levchin

Aeroplanes are not designed by science, but by art in spite of some pretence and humbug to the contrary. I do not mean to suggest that engineering can do without science, on the contrary, it stands on scientific foundations, but there is a big gap between scientific research and the engineering product which has to be bridged by the art of the engineer. ~ Isambard Kingdom Brunel

Enlightened social engineering is required to face situations that demand global action now. Education is a long-term solution. Parents and the general public must be reached also Otherwise, children and youth enrolled in globally oriented programs may find themselves in conflict with values assumed in the home. And then the educational institution frequently comes under scrutiny and must pull back. ~ John Goodlad

Social engineering is using manipulation, influence and deception to get a person, a trusted insider within an organization, to comply with a request, and the request is usually to release information or to perform some sort of action item that benefits that attacker. ~ Kevin Mitnick

A country's competitiveness starts not on the factory floor or in the engineering lab. It starts in the classroom. ~ Lee Iacocca

Liberals say they are for civil liberties and personal freedom, but they continue to advocate government regulation of business, redistribution of wealth, and various forms of social engineering to manipulate human relationships and attitudes. ~ Richard Ebeling

What made Manhattan Manhattan was the underground infrastructure, that engineering marvel. ~ Andrew Cuomo

I was attracted to things that combined art and science equally. I've always been equally interested in art design, science and engineering. ~ Bran Ferren

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

I'm against ObamaCare, which is imposing radical change, and I would be against a conservative imposing radical change ... I don't think right-wing social engineering is any more desirable than left-wing social engineering ... I don't think imposing radical change from the right or the left is a very good way for a free society to operate. ~ Newt Gingrich

George Washington was quite a farmer. He was a farmer, Civil Engineer and gentleman. He made enough at civil engineering to indulge in both the other luxuries. ~ Will Rogers

Too many companies believe that all they must do is provide a 'neat' technology or some 'cool' product or, sometimes, just good, solid engineering. Nope. All of those are desirable (and solid engineering is a must), but there is much more to a successful product than that: understanding how the product is to be used, design, engineering, positioning, marketing, branding-all matter. It requires designing the Total User Experience. ~ Donald A. Norman

I think a craft becomes an art form when the space of possible solutions becomes so huge that engineering can't carry you through. ~ Bill Budge