Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeremy Rifkin

The public should know that the liability issues here have yet to be resolved, or even raised. If you're a farmer and you're growing a genetically engineering food crop, those genes are going to flow to the other farm.

H. G. Wells

There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.

Kevin Mitnick

Both social engineering and technical attacks played a big part in what I was able to do. It was a hybrid. I used social engineering when it was appropriate, and exploited technical vulnerabilities when it was appropriate.

Kevin Mitnick

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

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.

George S. Patton

I do not fear failure. I only fear the "slowing up" of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, "Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?

George Patton

I do not fear failure. I only fear the ''slowing up'' of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, ''Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?''

James Dyson

Manufacturing is more than just putting parts together. It's coming up with ideas, testing principles and perfecting the engineering, as well as final assembly.

James Dyson

Engineering is treated with disdain, on the whole. It's considered to be rather boring and irrelevant, yet neither of those is true.

James Dyson

Hire inexperience. This year we plan to hire 200 engineers - half of whom are recent grads. Young people are not burdened by years of experience. They haven't learned - or been told - what is right or wrong. With engineering, there is no tried and tested path. You try, and fail, and fix, and fail again.

James Dyson

[M]anufacturing, science and engineering are ... incredibly creative. I'd venture to say more so than creative advertising agencies and things that are known as the creative industries.

James Dyson

Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it.

James Dyson

Engineering undergraduates should not be charged fees. They should receive grants, not student loans, and the government will get the money back long-term from increased exports.

Fernando Alonso

The motivation is even higher than ever this year because we have the number one and two in the team and all the mechanics and engineers are working with much more interest than last year.

A fire engine from the 1940s wouldn't have the same pump power. The tank wouldn't hold as much water. It wouldn't provide as much safety for firefighters as new equipment does.

Sometimes when a team gets the big lead the engines stop. It's tough to get it going again.

It was a Boeing 737 and it was doing an engine run up for a maintenance problem and a person was sucked into the engine.

The students who spent the day here now have a better idea of what it means to be a scientist or an engineer and of what they can accomplish.

The structural engineer looked at it and said that the facade is just very dangerous.

Automakers have engineered numerous new safety technologies into SUVs over the past several model years to prevent rollovers.

A small engine will keep it aloft when needed, but most power will be provided by thermal updrafts and other atmospheric winds.

Robert Lamm

A lot of producers will intimidate you or leave it to the engineer when you're in the vocal booth. I'm at my most vulnerable when I'm singing, but he just had a great manner in the studio.

A mechanic walked in front of the engine and was pulled into the engine.

This is broadly in line with my expectations as it shows the main engine of growth, electronics, is holding up very well. I wouldn't to be too worried about pharmaceuticals.

There was a time when having a big, giant engine was sort of in, ... everything is sort of pointing to the fact that if you want a good image, it's better to be efficient.

There's a lot of evaluation going on there with air-fuel mixtures, oil pressures, engine temperatures. That's more important to us than what Kyle thinks right now.

Brian Dawkins

This'll be one of our main-line trucks. We only have one engine and two tankers right now.

They only have one place in victory lane, and I think it would be better if they were all individually owned. That's not what Jack Roush, my partner in the engine business, would be happy with.

They have about 14 guys we can talk about. Washington runs the engines so quick. He does a great job getting them into their tempo. They're very impressive. It starts with him.

They had an engine test they didn't like so they will do another month of testing,

Gordon Bell

The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there.

Jakob Nielsen

Inadequate use of usability engineering methods in software development projects have been estimated to cost the US economy about $30 billion per year in lost productivity.

Isaac Asimov

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