Quotes by Engineers

I am a misanthrope, but exceedingly benevolent; I am very cranky, and am a super-idealist. ... I can digest philosophy better than food.
Alfred Nobel
Property has its duties as well as its rights.
Thomas Drummond
My rule is never save bits. They get the way, and you don't think of anything new. Put 'em in. Make a big mess.
Gene Wolfe
Information is information, not matter or energy.
Norbert Wiener
During my five years on Mauna Kea, workers routinely displayed the symptoms of Cerebral Hypoxia
Steven Magee
When Iran starts to regulate USA nuclear facilities, it will be a step in the right direction for the safety and security of 300 million people.
Steven Magee
The brown book I carry says there is nothing stranger than to explore a city wholly different from all those one knows, since to do so is to explore a second and unsuspected self. I have found a thing stranger: to explore such a city only after one has lived in it for some time without learning anything of it.
Gene Wolfe
Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
Herbert Hoover
But it does move.
Galileo
Prosperity is just around the corner.
Herbert Hoover
My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
Charles F. Kettering
You cannot teach a man anything you can only help him to find it within himself.
Galileo
The real secret of success is enthusiasm. Yes more than enthusiasm I would say excitement. I like to see men get excited. When they get excited they make a success of their lives.
Walter Chrysler
Scientific discovery consists in the interpretation for our own convenience of a system of existence which has been made with no eye to our convenience at all.
Norbert Wiener
All science is either Physics or stamp-collecting.
Lord Kelvin
No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
Charles F. Kettering
The faster you go the more chance there is of stubbing your toe but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.
Charles F. Kettering
When I decided to go into politics I weighed the cost: I would get criticism. But I went ahead. So when the virulent criticism came I wasn't surprised. I was better able to handle it.
Herbert Hoover
The simple faith in progress is not a conviction belonging to strength but one belonging to acquiescence and hence to weakness.
Norbert Wiener
A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles F. Kettering
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
George Mueller
Give me a lever long enough And a prop strong enough I can single-handed move the world.
Archimedes
The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
Charles Franklin Kettering
Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by mself.
Herbert Hoover
It is easy to build a philosophy. It doesn't have to run.
Charles F. Kettering
Keep on going and the chances are that you will stumble on something perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.
Charles F. Kettering
During a very busy life I have often been asked "How did you manage to it all?" The answer is very simple: it is because I did everything promptly.
Sir Richard Tangye
One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.
Paul W. Litchfield
When I decided to go into politics I weighed the cost: I would get criticism. But I went ahead. So when the virulent criticism came I wasn't surprised. I was better able to handle it.
Herbert Hoover
The simple faith in progress is not a conviction belonging to strength but one belonging to acquiescence and hence to weakness.
Norbert Wiener
A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles F. Kettering
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
George Mueller
Give me a lever long enough And a prop strong enough I can single-handed move the world.
Archimedes
The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
Charles Franklin Kettering
Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by mself.
Herbert Hoover
It is easy to build a philosophy. It doesn't have to run.
Charles F. Kettering
Keep on going and the chances are that you will stumble on something perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.
Charles F. Kettering
During a very busy life I have often been asked "How did you manage to it all?" The answer is very simple: it is because I did everything promptly.
Sir Richard Tangye
One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.
Paul W. Litchfield
If the law is upheld only by government officials then all law is at an end.
Herbert Hoover
Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have.
Arthur E. Morgan
Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.
Herbert Hoover
I don't care a damn for your loyal service when you think I am right when I really want it most is when you think I am wrong.
General Sir John Monash
My country ... gave me schooling independence of action and opportunity for service. ... I am indebted to my country beyond any human power to repay.
Herbert Hoover
Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.
Neil Armstrong
We need to teach a highly educated person that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently for failing is one of the greatest arts of the world.
Charles F. Kettering
Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures repeated failures are finger posts on the road to achievement. The only time you don't want to fail is the last time you try something.... One fails forward toward success.
Charles F. Kettering
The real secret of success is enthusiasm. Yes more than enthusiasm I would say excitement. I like to see men get excited. When they get excited they make a success of their lives.
Walter Chrysler
The world hates change yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
Charles F. Kettering
A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.
Howard Scott
Remember that when an employee enters your office he is in a strange land.
Erwin H. Schell
Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble.
Charles F. Kettering
When I decided to go into politics I weighed the costs. I would get criticism. But I went ahead. So when virulent criticism came I wasn't surprised. I was better able to handle it.
Herbert Hoover
Give me where to stand and I will move the earth.
Archimedes
That's one small step for a man one giant leap for mankind.
Neil Armstrong
Installing massive amounts of wireless devices into every city may eventually be proven to be a global weather modification system.
Steven Magee
Perfect the art of the pause for this is when the Holy Spirit speaks. Pausing creates white space in a conversation that enables the Holy Spirit to sort out our thoughts before we let out our words of life or death.
John M Sheehan
When you go to see the lake, you also see the hippos.
William Kamkwamba
Willfully polluting the ground with AC electricity is just another aspect of how the electrical utility companies will be remembered by the next generation.
Steven Magee
By the end of my thirties I was a mental and physical wreck!
Steven Magee