Engineers Quotes

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"Director is little bit of everything, little bit of the writer, little bit of an actor, little bit of an editor, little bit of a costume designer. Good director is the director who chooses for this profession people who are better than he is. Yes, I can write, but I have to have a writer who is a better writer than I am, I have to have actors who are better actors than I am, I have to have sound engineers who are better sound engineer than I am, you know. It`s a strange profession, ....visually it`s your vision."

- Milos Forman

There`s been a big change in the music field in the last 10 or 12 years. I think everything has improved - the sounds have improved, the musicians have improved, the engineers have definitely improved. I like a lot of the new groups, y`know, The Beatles and The Byrds and the . . . whoever, but I really like a lot of the new music, but a lot of it is basically, our music is basically, rock `n roll music is basically gospel or rhythm and blues. People have been adding to it, adding instruments to it, experimenting with it.

- Elvis Presley

Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.

- James A. Michener

That`s where it starts and sometimes finishes. My parents never told me I was small, so I never knew any better. They had to sign for me to play football and basketball, but they never said, "No, you can`t. You`re too small." I`m not the only one who has proved little people can get along in a big world. There are other little people out there who are doctors, lawyers, school teachers, electronics engineers.

- Billy Barty

People say I play real loud. I don`t, actually. I`m recorded loud and a lot of that is because we have good engineers. Mick knows what a good drum sound is as well, so that`s part of the illusion really. I can`t play loud.

- Charlie Watts

The training in those days was rather ad hoc because the people running NASA were basically engineers,

- Jim Lovell

We offer insight on exactly what is involved in the industry. We represent singers and songwriters, but also producers, engineers and a whole bunch of career tracks that people can take.

- Jimmy Jam

Not without a parting shot, though. We do plan on taking a couple of images of our lovely delivery system, ... give the engineers their due, and get to see their hardware for the last time.

- Kevin Burke

I was having a private conversation with (engineers in) the truck, like we do everyday, and evidently some words that aren`t air-able came out and through a technical difficulty, I may have offended some people. If that`s the case, I apologize and I will face any consequences.

- Mark Grace

Since the summer, Markko has been happier at the wheel of the 307 WRC and the engineers at Peugeot Sport have a clearer understanding of the sort of set-up that suits him. Everything`s moving in the right direction and that`s the main thing, both with a view to defending Peugeot`s chances in its bid to win the manufacturers` title as well as to maintaining our own, very real chance of finishing in the top-three in the drivers` championship. We haven`t given up!

- Michael Park

Once the jacking operation was complete, our structural engineers . . . came to the conclusion that it was simply not salvageable, and in the interest of safety, the best course of action would be to replace it.

- Peter Graves

Honda has made it very clear that our preference is to have competition. Having competition is a way of challenging our engineers to develop a superior product.

- Robert Clarke

Response to the HV Rack has been tremendous, and we are excited to offer these new user-requested options. They make the product available to another entire group of scientists and engineers, while offering current users even more flexibility in configuring their rack mount power supply.

- James Morrison

You never see girls running after engineers.(on why he chose acting over a career as an engineer)

- Anthony Mackie

It`s not like they`re just throwing me to the wolves and saying, `Here`s a girl, let`s give her an opportunity.` Ray`s really behind me, so he`s put Bill with me and some of the top engineers, so I`m very thankful.

- Erin Crocker

(The Washington-based Environmental Integrity project reported this week that in the past few months, the Army Corps of Engineers has opened vast tracts of wetlands to development.) Congress has failed to act to shore up wetlands protections after the Supreme Court decision, ... And as bad as the Supreme Court decision was, the Army Corps has made it worse by going further than the opinion required.

- Eric Schaeffer

The Indian customs officials sent photos of the seizure to us and most of the engineers had them up on their desks for weeks. For those who spent years of testing and failing, knowing it was being used and helping to protect against terror was exceptionally motivating.

- Peter Kent

All of a sudden the president doesn`t want his Web access filtered, so you remove the Web filtering only for him. Or some engineers want to FTP into a workstation. Next thing you know, you have different rules for different people.

- Jeff Moss

world-class scientists and engineers and surround them with the creative environment and speed of action that will make it happen.

- David Thompson

These attractions can open in six months, but it`s questionable whether there will be any tourists there by then. It`s going to be years before the New Orleans tourist industry comes back. Once engineers get inside a lot of those buildings, they`ll discover damage that wasn`t visible. A lot of buildings will have to be torn down or completely rebuilt.

- Steve Baker

The ancient Romans had a tradition: whenever one of their engineers constructed an arch, as the capstone was hoisted into place, the engineer assumed accountability for his work in the most profound way possible: he stood under the arch.

- Michael Armstrong

They basically ask their engineers to volunteer some probability figures, then they take the average. This is not science. This is voodoo,

- Michio Kaku

If it`s a technical issue, he won`t just have the engineers of that product attend the meeting. He has all the right people assembled. He really knows how to rally the forces.

- Tom Roberts

There are now hundreds of thousands of new engineers that are being trained in China. If people start finding themselves losing their jobs, not to the Chinese here but because China has become such a dominant force - then there could very well be a backlash.

- Iris Chang

Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. In area after area - crime, education, housing, race relations - the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them.

- Thomas Sowell

It will be hard work. It`s always hard work, and hard work from everybody within the team - technical director, mechanics, drivers, engineers - everyone in the team.

- David Leslie

(U.S. engineers and scientists haven`t helped prepare for an era of declining oil because) we`re so focused on health and national security, ... We`ve neglected getting young people involved in how to keep our sewage plants and water supply going and fix our transportation system. Put out bids for subway cars, and all the bids come from Europe. I know -- my wife tells me this is boring stuff. But it`s essential.

- James Jordan

Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.

- Aaron Sanchez

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.

- Adolfo Cambiaso

I don`t think that they have many of the scientists who were involved in the weapons program to talk to at this time, and there were thousands of people, engineers and scientists, they know where the weapons are.

- Ahmed Kamal

I`ve got a great team of engineers behind this race car. I`ve got a great bunch of mechanics that make it reliable. This car is developed to go out there and be better than the Reynard, and I feel that it is.

- Ahmed Rashid

One out of every eight Pennsylvanians and one in every 720 people in the United States, as well as one out of every 50 engineers and one out of every four meteorologists has a Penn State degree.

- Alan Wooley

The Society of American Civil Engineers, someone who`s going to come in and say to the public, we`ve looked at, we`ve examined, we`ve reviewed the repairs and we think they`re strong enough to withstand the type of hurricane that - that could hit the city this season.

- Alvin Sykes

Our fish, our recreation, our irrigation and all our uses of the Missouri River are threatened if the drought continues and the Corps of Engineers decisions aren`t changed.

- Amber Chia

If you need to understand it to make policy, you should turn first to people who are scientists and engineers for factual information.

- Andrew J. Spano

I`m not suggesting for one moment that we stop professional football. If I said that, I better leave the country, ... I think more attention should be paid by scientists and biomechanical engineers in coming up with a better helmet.

- Anthony Gary

The world has changed dramatically, with globalization and free trade, moving from an industrial economy to an information economy, ... But while that`s been happening, K-12 education hasn`t changed at all. Meanwhile, China`s graduating five times as many engineers as we are, and you look at India and you get alarmed.

- Antonia Maioni

From next season we will be even more energetic in our F-1 activities, working hard as a team in order to improve our technology, develop our young engineers and achieve our goal of winning the world championship.

- Aric Lee

We want to get engineers to think about something else.

- Arlene Hernandez

We don`t have details on how to apply for FEMA assistance or how to contact the Red Cross or the Army Corps of Engineers or any other public or private relief agencies.

- Arlene Melton

Process change has become embedded in individual functions and business units, and they have seen the benefits to their bottom lines. So they come to IT because they want to know what other parts of the company have done. We`ve gone from being the engineers of new processes to being the movers of innovation across the company.

- Arthur Johnson

He said it`s only moving at the top, which it was designed to do. But I`m not taking his word for it, I`ll be checking with county engineers to see if that`s an accurate statement.

- Atsuo Ito

If there are engineers out there looking for jobs, we have the resources.

- Audrey Mueller

The Army Corps of Engineers is playing with limited dollars right now and despite the fact that we have the same threats, we will be waiting a long, long time for any money from them,

- Barry Armstrong

The most thoroughly and relentlessly Damned, banned, excluded, condemned, forbidden, ostracized, ignore, suppressed, repressed, robbed, brutalized and defamed of all Damned Things is the individual human being. The social engineers, statistician, psychologist, sociologists, market researchers, landlords, bureaucrats, captains of industry, bankers, governors, commissars, kings and presidents are perpetually forcing this Damned Thing into carefully prepared blueprints and perpetually irritated that the Damned Thing will not fit into the slot assigned it. The theologians call it a sinner and try to reform it. The governor calls it a criminal and tries to punish it. the psychologist calls it a neurotic and tries to cure it. Still, the Damned Thing will not fit into their slots.

- Robert Anton Wilson

Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.

- Scott Adams