Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard P. Feynman

In fact, the science of thermodynamics began with an analysis, by the great engineer Sadi Carnot, of the problem of how to build the best and most efficient engine, and this constitutes one of the few famous cases in which engineering has contributed to fundamental physical theory. Another example that comes to mind is the more recent analysis of information theory by Claude Shannon. These two analyses, incidentally, turn out to be closely related.

Richard Dawkins

The machine code of the genes is uncannily computer-like. Apart from differences in jargon, the pages of a molecular biology journal might be interchanged with those of a computer engineering journal.

Richard Dawkins

The present Luddism over genetic engineering may die a natural death as the computer-illiterate generation is superseded.... I fear that, if the green movement's high-amplitude warnings over GMOs turn out to be empty, people will be dangerously disinclined to listen to other and more serious warnings.

William Gibson

When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.

Satoru Iwata

Engineering is not quite as important as imagination

William Blake

Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

Walt Disney

Recession doesn't deserve the right to exist. There are just too many things to be done in science and engineering to be bogged down by temporary economic dislocations.

Will Rogers

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.

Walter Gropius

Architecture begins where engineering ends.

Mahatma Gandhi

A true and nonviolent combination of labour would act like a magnet attracting to it all the needed capital.

Pat Summitt

I'm interested to see where a combination of faith and science will take me.

Martin Feldstein

Unless the trade deficit shrinks, the combination of the trade deficit and the interest and dividend payments to foreigners will grow ever more rapidly.

Shaquille O'Neal

I'm a combination of the Terminator and Bambi.

Patty Loveless

I'm a combination of Linda Ronstadt, Loretta Lynn and Ralph Stanley.

Dionne Warwick

I am a combination of my entire family.

Timothy Leary

When you teach someone how to perform creatively (ie, associate dead symbols in new combinations), you expand his potential for experiencing more widely and richly.

Ginnifer Goodwin

One time I had too many Heinekens and I googled myself and realized that that was a very, very bad combination.

Iyanla Vanzant

You can never love anyone to your own detriment. That is not love, that is possession, control, fear, or a combination of them all.

Michael J. Saylor

I think my software is going to become so ubiquitous, so essential, that if it stops working, there will be riots.

Jeff Pulver

is the triggering of a transformation where telecom merges with software applications.

Nathan Myhrvold

Software is a gas; it expands to fill its container.

Philip Schiller

This is to do a whole different set of things. There's been no software that does what Aperture does.

Christopher Klaus

Anti-virus software does nothing to stop a worm,

Richard Williams

These software stocks are all overvalued on the fundamentals that we see today.

Augusten Burroughs

I never could have written the screenplay because I would have been forced to learn new software and I can't learn one more thing.

Steve Jobs

When we started off we didn't know how to spell software.

Tim Berners-Lee

Any good software engineer will tell you that a compiler and an interpreter are interchangeable.