Quotes by Engineers - Page 2

Over the years I have come to understand three things about the police: 1) They cover up virtually everything involving a police officer. 2) They will not enforce the laws for people that they do not like. 3) They will target people that they do not like for prosecution using various techniques that include unwarranted stops, drug testing, faked police reports, tickets, fines, blatantly mislead the judge at court, and removal of USA federal rights.
Steven Magee
To understand how to be healthy, a person must first comprehend sickness, disease and death.
Steven Magee
Simplify? Let me try. In school days, we are taught that if there are four animals in a room and you add two more, the total will be six. That is logic. But behind this logic, there are underlying assumptions. Now, if somebody tells you, there are four rats in the room and if you add two more cats in the room, how many animals in total exist in the room now? The answer will depend upon assumption. If you just use your mathematical brain, you will say six animals. If you use your human brain, you will say two animals. Why two animals? Because the two cats will eat the four rats in no time.
Ravindra Shukla
Working on the summit of Mauna Kea was comparable to working on the hospital pulmonary ward with sick people sucking on oxygen cylinders.
Steven Magee
I have sometimes thought that the reason the trees are so quiet in the summer is that they are in a sort of ecstasy; it is in winter, when the biologists tell us they sleep, that they are most awake, because the sun is gone and they are addicts without their drug, sleeping restlessly and often waking, walking the dark corridors of forests searching for the sun.
Gene Wolfe
What are you - Secret Service?''If I were, I wouldn't admit it.''And you're not admitting it, I notice.
Robert Goddard
I had turned my mind from my survival just as a man suffering from a deadly sickness manages by a thousand tricks never to look at death squarely; or rather, as a woman alone in a large house refrains from looking into mirrors, and instead busies herself with trivial errands, so that she may catch no glimpse of the thing whose feet she hears at times on the stairs.
Gene Wolfe
Then I could not help wondering what the watching gods thought of us, with our clever masks and our jokes. What we think of crickets, perhaps, whose singing we hear with pleasure, though some of us smash them with our heels when they venture into sight.
Gene Wolfe
After six months of building muscle mass I can now confirm that muscle mass creates increased tolerance to biologically harmful radiation sources.
Steven Magee
Sit down before fact with an open mind. Be prepared to give up every preconceived notion. Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads or you learn nothing. Don’t push out figures when facts are going in the opposite direction.
Hyman G. Rickover
To be healthy in modern society, you must adopt the behaviors of an astronaut!
Steven Magee
The best or nothing at all.
Gottlieb Daimler
Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) is a major problem from poorly tested products and it should be dealt with sooner rather than later by government regulators.
Steven Magee
A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles Franklin Kettering
The problem with radiation research is that you are constantly battling the biological effects of delayed radiation complications.
Steven Magee
A mathematician makes plans to travel backwards in time through a wormhole to a parallel universe when he can't even make it to Mars with the fastest rocket on hand today.
Bill Gaede
Comparable specification Windows 10 computers from multiple manufacturers can have very different performance between them.
Steven Magee
I knew it was the right thing to do because I started feeling some of the toxicity inside me melt away and peace begin to fill in the crevices
Kim C. Steadman
A successful radiation researcher must research both radiation and the harmful biological effects of the radiation exposures received by the researcher.
Steven Magee
Most people hate successful people for their small little faults rather than appreciating them for their great strengths.
Awdhesh Singh
When a gift is deserved, it is not a gift but a payment.
Gene Wolfe
The greatest domestic terrorists in the USA are either working for the corporate government or are funding it.
Steven Magee
If the gooseberry said: 'I haven't the heart to be a real proper gooseberry because if everyone were a gooseberry the world wouldn't continue to exist' this would be a stupid argument and the world would be deprived of a useful fruit. If you are called upon to be a 'gooseberry' in all the senses--pleasant or ludicrous--of the word, you should be one with all your heart and soul, without a backward glance.
Pierre Ceresole
Oxygen deprivation and supplemental oxygen are both bio-hazards for Mauna Kea workers
Steven Magee
It's impossible to be a good writer if you haven't lived badly. A past life of drinking heavily, fighting and whoring all help to ease those words onto the page.
Ken Scott
When I worked on the 13,796 feet very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea we were advised to only use the medical oxygen after the daily headaches appeared and that just 15 minutes use was all that was needed to clear up the headaches for a while before we would need it again. We were not advised to use medical oxygen continuously as the Federal Aviation Regulations advises pilots to do. We were not advised to use pulse oximeters to monitor our blood oxygen levels or that the company medical oxygen should have been routinely administered only with our doctors prescription.
Steven Magee
The deception of the world's ways is a prison till you find the key that will set you free
John M Sheehan
It is the definition of the word 'object' which destroys all religions.
Bill Gaede
And, believe me, if I were again beginning my studies, I should follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
Galileo Galilei
A mathematician is an individual who proves his beliefs with equations.
Bill Gaede
A mathematician says that an electromagnetic wave travels from Andromeda to your eye and that it also extends from Andromeda to your eye.
Bill Gaede
A mathematician tells you that the wall of warped space prevents the Moon from flying out of its orbit yet can't tell you why an astronaut can go back and forth across that same space.
Bill Gaede
Nothing takes place in the world whose meaning is not that of some maximum or minimum.
Leonhard Euler
It is well, I think, for us to learn to tell evil from good; but it has its price, as everything does. We leave our evil friend behind.
Gene Wolfe
Biological harm from electromagnetic interference (EMI) is the dirty secret of the electrical, electronics and wireless radio frequency (RF) radiation industries.
Steven Magee
Whenever a homeless person speaks to me in the USA, I always assume that I am speaking to a police officer and play along with the suspected charade.
Steven Magee
Be happy in the day - Today is enough - Each moment is all we need in the today given and not the tomorrow to come
John M Sheehan
The astounding natural beauty of the USA is offset by its extremely poor social security system that is clearly apparent when driving around the country.
Steven Magee
A few years after working on Mauna Kea, I discovered that I had radiation sickness
Steven Magee
The day will come when some more powerful man will get fame and riches from my invention, but nobody will believe that poor John Fitch can do anything worthy of attention.
John Fitch
Many of the younger generation know my name in a vague way and connect it with grotesque inventions, but don't believe that I ever existed as a person. They think I am a nonperson, just a name that signifies a tangled web of pipes or wires or strings that suggest machinery. My name to them is like a spiral staircase, veal cutlets, barber's itch—terms that give you an immediate picture of what they mean.
Rube Goldberg
Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.
Herbert Hoover
This fits in with what I saw in staff in astronomical facilities and was reporting to the management team: 10-14% Oxygen: Emotional upset, abnormal fatigue, disturbed respiration.
Steven Magee
Mathematics, which most of us see as the most factual of all sciences, constitutes the most colossal metaphor imaginable, and must be judged, aesthetically as well as intellectually in terms of the success of this metaphor.
Norbert Wiener
The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information.
Tim Berners-Lee
In terms of the Internet, it's like humanity acquiring a collective nervous system. Whereas previously we were more like a [?], like a collection of cells that communicated by diffusion. With the advent of the Internet, it was suddenly like we got a nervous system. It's a hugely impactful thing.
Elon Musk
I explored because I was feeling really crappy, and I wanted to know why
Steven Magee
There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement.
William Thomson
Nature is not embarrassed by difficulties of analysis. She avoids complication only in means. Nature seems to be proposed to do much with little: it is a principle that the development of physics constantly supports by new evidence.
Jean Fresnel
Very high altitude astronomy only works by ignoring established biological science
Steven Magee
A mathematician is an individual who constructs space with 0D particles and then places a bowling ball on this invisible canvas to explain how gravity works.
Bill Gaede
We are the last generation of humans on Earth!
Bill Gaede
There is something lamentable, degrading, and almost insane in pursuing the visionary schemes of past ages with dogged determination, in paths of learning which have been investigated by superior minds, and with which such adventurous persons are totally unacquainted. The history of Perpetual Motion is a history of the fool-hardiness of either half-learned, or totally ignorant persons.
Henry Dircks
A relativist is an individual who doesn't know the difference between an adjective and an adverb.
Bill Gaede
A mathematician is a magician who converts adjectives into nouns: continuous into continuum, infinite into infinity, infinitesimal into location, 0D into point, 1D into line, curved into geodesic...
Bill Gaede
Give me a place to stand, a lever long enough and a fulcrum. and I can move the Earth
Archimedes
Very few of the common people realize that the political and legal systems have been corrupted by decades of corporate lobbying.
Steven Magee
Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.
Herbert Hoover
Why use long words when short ones will do? Not all readers have been to college or university.
Ken Scott
Unless we recognize a higher power to whom we are responsible and who observes and knows our actions, we will not transcend the selfishness of our character and the subjectivity of our intellect. If each person is the final arbiter of right and wrong, then ‘right’ for him or her will be what he or she desires, regardless of its consequences for the other inhabitants of Earth.
Daniel Friedmann