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The present Luddism over genetic engineering may die a natural death as the computer-illiterate generation is superseded....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.

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.

James Grant

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

Eric Hoffer

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.

Norman Ralph Augustine

For every scientific (or engineering) action, there is an equal and opposite social reaction.

Noam Chomsky

The social and physical construction of suburban America really was quite complex. It was a very elaborate system, and clearly a massive social engineering project that has changed U.S. society enormously.

Jules Verne

I have always made a point in my romances of basing my so-called inventions upon a groundwork of actual fact, and of using in their construction methods and materials which are not entirely without the pale of contemporary engineering skill and knowledge.

Keith Haring

I think you have to control the materials to an extent, but it's important to let the materials have a kind of power for themselves; like the natural power of gravity, if you are painting on a wall, it makes the paint trickle and it drips; there is no reason to fight that.

Keith Haring

People were more interested in the phenomena than the art itself. This, combined with the growing interest in collecting art as an investment and the resultant boom in the art market, made it a difficult time for a young artist to remain sincere without becoming cynical.

Joe Henderson

I was joking but he took responded seriously: 'I would know, and I couldn't live with myself knowing that I'd only run 97 miles or whatever.'

Adrian Belew

King Crimson will soon be touring parts of Europe.

Ken Mehlman

Kerry's political attacks are not supported by reality, which shows rising employment and higher wages, and his policies -- higher taxes, increased regulation and bigger government -- would move America backward.

Amy Walter

Kerry's focus and his message has really been middle class, middle America, 'I'm standing up for the little guy' and middle class investors respond to that, but that raises the question of how do you go back and talk to the business community after that.

Colleen Atwood

Knowing who the actors were as you were designing them helped, with Catherine's beauty and Renee's frailty, they directed me visually just by who they were.

Judith Krantz

Knowing what I do now, I certainly wouldn't decide to write a first novel because I wouldn't have anything like the necessary life experience.

Carol Foreman

Kids are healthier these days... more kids are in school around the world, and partly that's because Australians have been willing to invest in aid.

Wyndham Lewis

Happiness is the chief material also in the construction of Utopias.

Emo Philips

I was walking down the street the other day and these construction workers were working on the roof hammering away. One of them told me I was a paranoid lunatic... in morse code.

Eartha Kitt

I used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle.

Edwin Land

Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.

Daniel H. Wilson

Demolition is a part of construction.

Bob Corker

I saved $8,000 and created a construction company when I was 25.

Craig Scott

The tragic effects of terrorism have forced the new-construction industry to re-evaluate traditional methods of fire protection in commercial infrastructures. That includes everything from building codes, to structural design issues and the less durable fireproofing materials currently specified for commercial steel structures.

Donald Trump

I have many women executives. I always have. When I was back in the construction days, the big construction days, I had women in charge of big developments.

Amy Poehler

So, if you're doing good longform with talented people than you can step out and you can be the president or a construction worker and people accept that. It's really the roles you give yourself.