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Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design.
by Herbert Simon (Scientist, American , born in 1916) keywords: architecture, business, concerned, contingent, design, engineering, how, medicine, might, necessary, painting, short , things After graduating in engineering I went to the University of Kansas to get an MA in economics as a vehicle for allowing me to decide if I wanted to continue in economics.
by Vernon L. Smith (Economist, American , born in 1927) keywords: after, allowing, continue, decide, economics, engineering, get, graduating, kansas, ma, university, vehicle, wanted , went I studied chemical engineering. I was a good student, but these were the hard times of the depression, my scholarship came to an end, and it was necessary to work to supplement the family income.
by Jack Steinberger (Physicist, American , born in 1921) keywords: came, chemical, depression, end, engineering, family, good, hard, income, necessary, scholarship, student, studied, supplement, these, times, were , work I suppose the reason I chose electrical engineering was because I had always been interested in electricity, involving myself in such projects as building radios from the time I was a child.
by Koichi Tanaka (Scientist, Japanese , born in 1959) keywords: always, because, been, building, child, chose, electrical, electricity, engineering, had, interested, involving, myself, projects, radios, reason, such, suppose , time The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
by Lewis Thomas (Scientist, English , born in 1913) topics: Science keywords: along, behaviour, cloning, computer, control, engineering, flowers, genetic, growth, heads, humans, lists, most, plastic, poetry, science, things, transplanted, unrestrained , worry For decades engineers have stood accused that their buildings do not have any cultural value. We have attempted to liberate engineering of this accusation.
by Fritz Todt (Soldier, German , born in 1891) keywords: accusation, accused, any, attempted, buildings, cultural, decades, engineering, engineers, liberate, stood, their , value In these highways our engineering will reflect the National Socialist movement.
by Fritz Todt (Soldier, German , born in 1891) keywords: engineering, highways, movement, national, our, reflect, socialist, these , will I was in school studying civil engineering. A guy approached me on the street and said that I had a interesting look-very exotic. He told me I should try to be in the industry.
by Thuy Trang (Actor, Vietnamese , born in 1973) keywords: approached, civil, engineering, exotic, guy, had, industry, interesting, said, school, should, street, studying, told , try Nonetheless, the research budgets of the Department of Defense are under enormous stress-and they are extremely important because they support more than 40 percent of all federal funding for engineering schools across the country. So the threat was and is real.
by Charles Vest (Educator, American , born in 1941) keywords: across, because, budgets, country, defense, department, engineering, enormous, extremely, federal, funding, important, more, nonetheless, percent, real, research, schools, support, than, threat , under Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.
by Larry Wall (Author, Canadian , born in 1949) keywords: art, artist, cultural, engineering, good, modern, myself, necessary, some , think 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.
by H. G. Wells (Author, English , born in 1866) keywords: bridges, devices, engineering, imperfection, iron, machinery, measure, nothing, oblige, railways, them, ugliness , ugly My grandfather on my mother's side was a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; my other grandfather was a lawyer, and one time Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives.
by Kenneth G. Wilson (Scientist, American , born in 1936) keywords: engineering, grandfather, house, institute, lawyer, massachusetts, mechanical, mother, other, professor, representatives, side, speaker, technology, tennessee , time Indeed, the woes of Software Engineering are not due to lack of tools, or proper management, but largely due to lack of sufficient technical competence.
by Niklaus Wirth (Scientist, Swiss , born in 1934) keywords: competence, due, engineering, indeed, lack, largely, management, proper, software, sufficient, technical, tools , woes I worked with such concentration and focus and I had hundreds of obscure engineering or programming things in my head. I was just real exceptional in that way.
by Steve Wozniak (Businessman, American , born in 1950) keywords: concentration, engineering, exceptional, focus, had, head, hundreds, just, obscure, programming, real, such, things, way , worked