Comings Quotes

People also don`t care about the daily comings and goings of diplomats and yet we must report it.

The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where all can see them. His acts, step by step, are in hard substance. He cannot bury his mistakes in the grave like the doctors. He cannot argue them into thin air or blame the judge like the lawyers. He cannot, like the architects, cover his failures with trees and vines. He cannot, like the politicians, screen his sort-comings by blaming his opponents and hope the people will forget. The engineer simply cannot deny he did it. If his works do not work, he is damned.

We believe the company is poised to begin to reap the rewards of these investments in 2005, and we think this will likely be reflected in superior levels of earnings growth over the comings years.