Engineer Quotations

I'd do a demo recording by myself, layering instruments on top of one another, and while that's fun, it doesn't have the same impact as getting some great players together in a great studio with a great engineer and producer, then waiting for the magic.

There's always something that an engineer can do to make microscopes better.

I believe destiny and hard work go hand in hand. I was studying to be an engineer when my mom and my brother sent my pictures for the Miss India contest. I didn't even know about it. If that isn't destiny, what is?

I should say that I usually have a good experience on Amtrak. Still, if Amtrak could replace electric horns with steam whistles, they could make big strides. A horn is a horn is a horn, but a steam whistle is a voice and a song. People used to know which engineer was running which engine based on the call of the whistle.

My father was an engineer working for a textile company that had several factories scattered in rural towns in the southern part of Japan.

Since I stayed in a colony where either one was an engineer or a scientist, everybody thought I would be a scientist. This was the expectation everybody had apart from my parents. Honestly, I, too, wanted to be a scientist. I think it was the way Dad would explain us scientific theories and concepts that made the subject more intriguing.

If you, or any public-spirited programmer, wanted to figure out what the software on your machine is really doing, tough luck. It's illegal to reverse engineer the source code of commercial software to find out how it works.

I'm a physicist and computer scientist by training. I worked in high tech for thirty years as everything from engineer to senior vice president - for many of those years, writing SF as a hobby - until, in 2004, I began writing full time.

I'm an engineer turned entrepreneur who's passionate about connection.

So I just got on the phone and the engineer just patched me in and I did reports. I'd get a community leader and bring him to the phone, call up the station and do an interview over the phone with the guy.

My brother is an electrical engineer and went to computer science grad school at Stanford, and he'd tell me stories about the happy hours he'd organize.

If you are a woman, you might feel torn between logical agreement and emotional resistance. Why? It seems like a simpler solution to blame men for the pay gap than to engineer your own bridge to higher pay.

People are prone to taking mental shortcuts. They may know that they shouldn't give out certain information, but the fear of not being nice, the fear of appearing ignorant, the fear of a perceived authority figure - all these are triggers, which can be used by a social engineer to convince a person to override established security procedures.

My dad is an engineer and works on green energy, so I'm very aware of what it takes to keep a modern home running and how we can simplify.

Relationships are hard. If as an actor you marry an engineer or a doctor, it's really hard for them because they don't understand what your life is like. We live two lives. We have a 'reel' life and a real life.

My dad, of course, like a lot of Asian parents, wanted me to be an engineer or doctor and never could understand why I would want to be a lawyer. And then, when I first said I wanted to run for office, he thought that was absolutely insane.

My dad was a mechanical engineer and a drummer. We had no money, but I never felt we had no money, and that's what I remember now, having my own child. I think, 'Oh so what?' Kids don't go around the house seeing what's wrong with it.

From here, it becomes an engineering problem; the engineer considers the ground motion that will occur and evaluates the requirements of the proposed structure in the light of the local foundation conditions.

I'm the classic example of alienation: I grew up in a middle-class household without art or books. I was going to be a chemical engineer until I went to the theatre for the first time at 16 and was blown away by it.

Indeed, an engineer designing a structure is not unlike an artist painting one. Both start with nothing but talent, experience, and inspiration. The fresh piece of paper on the drawing board is as blank as the newly stretched piece of canvas.

My first book, 'To Engineer Is Human,' was prompted by nonengineer friends asking me why so many technological accidents and failures were occurring. If engineers knew what they were doing, why did bridges and buildings fall down? It was a question that I had often asked myself, and I had no easy answer.

My very first records, I was very interested in how you get the particular quality you want out of it, and I began to learn about the engineering and aspects of production and things very early on. I got hands-on with the process and taught myself how to engineer, as opposed to just being a producer who asked the engineer to make it sound nice.

My father wanted me to go into the oil business. He was in the oil and gas business as a consulting petroleum engineer up in Tulsa.

One of the things I love about being an engineer is you can see things as they progress. That bridge, I consider the showpiece of the Central Artery Project, so it makes me proud to say I worked on it.

My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers. I only started the company when I realized I could be an engineer forever.

My first jobs after graduation in 1955 were as a project engineer for G.E. and later with the U.S. government in Washington, D.C., where I met and married my wife, Dolores Celini.

Phil is the best engineer I've ever worked with because he makes it a point to understand the music that he's mixing, so it makes your work sound ten times better.

So here we have pi squared, which an engineer would call 10.

Franklin County as a whole is really my home, ... I was born in Benton and attended grade schools in Benton, Rend City, and up at the old Mt. Pleasant school house. When I went to school in Rend City it was a bustling little mining town. My grandfather, Herman Bradford was a hoisting engineer at the mine there until the mine closed.

I believe the Fed will engineer this slowdown and it won't result in a hard landing,

I have always been driven by the ambition to solve every problem I face, whether as a scientist, engineer or entrepreneur.

Today is a great day as we stand with you to recognize the sacrifices and contributions of the men and women of the 216th Engineer Battalion through what was a very long, challenging year in Iraq, ... It was indeed an honor to serve with the men and women who comprised the 216th.

I also did electrical and chemistry experiments at that time. At first, when asked in school to prepare an essay about my career, I prepared one about a career as an electrical engineer like my father. Later, when I actually entered Carnegie Tech. in Pittsburgh, I entered as a student with the major of chemical engineering.

He was not a guy to throw a white scarf around his neck and hop into a plane. He was an engineer and a test pilot, capable of evaluating things from a technical standpoint.

He could have been an engineer and he would have been a great one, but he decided to be a catcher and he was a good one. Then he decided to be a bench coach and he was a good one. Now he is going to be a manager and he is going to be a good one.

I am here today as an American citizen and an engineer whose life has been devastated by that (H-1B) program.

Henry Ford was an innovative educator, environmentalist and engineer and therefore his estate is a symbol for UM-D.

My mother and father were supportive. But in an Italian family, you kind of work with your hands, or you are an engineer or a doctor. But an actor was something they couldn't get hold of. They were afraid I wouldn't be able to make a living, and for many years, they were right.

Someone is going to have to determine whose engineer is correct. That's part of the process. They try to reduce the number and we try to account for the dollars we spent.

Part of our objective in creating the original reference design for the UMPC category was to engineer a platform that's both very compact and, through careful component choice, possible to sell for $500 MSRP.

Paul Hicks is the only guy The Beatles will allow to arrange, mix and engineer their music, so he did the Cirque du Soleil 'Love' show.

I'm speaking towards the conceptual plan (that Quinlan is proposing), but I definitely think this project is something that town should pursue. There's not enough information yet, and I don't know if he can engineer proper septic systems and if it will be environmentally safe, but I think the town is doing the right thing by exploring the possibilities.

It is a very special day because everyone has run on damp and wet so far and this is the first time we have run on dry. It's hard for anyone to get a good first run in that situation. I am very happy with the team performance, the engineer who improved the car based on Nelsinho's feedback, and of course with Nelsinho who did a fantastic job. It's a fantastic start for us.

I was born in the small town of Gorizia, Italy, on 31 March, 1934. My father was an electrical engineer at the local telephone company and my mother an elementary school teacher.

Typically the engineer would create a group inside of his simulation run, but as he's exploring his data he might realize that another well group would be more useful. This functionality gives him the flexibility to interactively create a group from the simulation data and immediately be able to start plotting the results.

My childhood dream was to study mechanical engineering. After reading 'The Mysterious Island' - which I read 25 times as a boy - I thought that was the best thing a person could do. The engineer in the book knows mechanics and physics, and he creates a whole way of life on the island out of nothing. I wanted to be like that.

Unlike most animals - with some exceptions like beavers - we engineer our environment. So that allows us to hang on in places that would otherwise be singularly inhospitable.

We haven't been able to transform it into a discipline where you can simply and predictably engineer biological systems. It means the complexity of things we can make and can afford to make are quite limited.

We recorded that EP with an aspiring sound engineer and played a lot of graduation parties. Surprisingly, we grew the most after I left for Marquette (in fall 2004). We've learned how to play our instruments really well in the past year.

We wanted to make something that represented what we were actually doing, ... The first album was OK, but that was almost three and a half years ago, and we more or less did that on our own. But with Arhoolie, we were able to go into a bigger studio -- it was a lot more professional -- and we did the whole recording in one day, because we already knew what we were going to do. And we had a good engineer that had a nice system, and he let us feel free to do what we do, and I think that's the best way to record a group of guys like us.

There is a substantial change sweeping the country and the way in which business schools are responding to it. It used to be that your average MBA was an engineer who found engineering was more fun in school than in the field. He or she came to business school to make a career change.

Toyota's orientation from the very beginning was anybody could go hire a mechanic and hire an engineer and hire this and buy that. Toyota's view was that before they could build a car, they needed to perfect new revolutionary processes to build a mold, to build an engine, to go back to that level. And that's what makes the company different.

We're trying to engineer out some of the errors. We steal shamelessly from everybody and everywhere that has good training programs.

Each company continues to engineer and design new products for the golfer. The No. 2 golfer in the world, Vijay Singh, will go to the president of a golf company about the latest technology to help better his golf game. Making clubs bigger and lighter not only benefits the pros but will help the average golfer.

Earnings momentum is going to continue to be a key driver. Those companies that are in a good position in the market, that can engineer their own momentum, are going to be in demand.

The township received the administrative order on Wednesday and has provided the solicitor, engineer and management system with copies for review and comment. A meeting to discuss this issue will be scheduled in the near future.

The structural engineer looked at it and said that the facade is just very dangerous.

The students who spent the day here now have a better idea of what it means to be a scientist or an engineer and of what they can accomplish.

There are a couple of issues yet. We had both the electrical and civil sanitary engineer here last Friday.

The role of city engineer is a difficult position and one that requires a multitude of abilities.

These accident ratios tell me as a traffic engineer that there's something we need to look at.

There will be several people taking on more responsibilities until he returns. I'll be helping out, the city engineer will take on longer hours, and so will some of the other employees. Ours is a small operation, and the city will feel a void until his return.

We think random drug testing is inappropriate, particularly in areas that are not safety jobs. For an engineer on a train, perhaps it's appropriate. But for most of us, why should we submit to a drug test? They are humiliating, offensive and intrusive.

Women are very different to men, and that hasn't been respected. So when people say there's never been a good woman painter or poet or engineer or whatever, they don't understand that our skills are many simultaneously and men's skills are single.

To make use of artificial genes, we need to make millions of copies of them for experiments using a process called polymerase chain reaction. By putting restriction sites into specific spots along the gene, we can cut it into bite-sized pieces that are easily duplicated millions of times. So the ability to cut and paste genes back together again is critical for designing genes to the right specifications, rapidly replicating them and putting them into vectors to genetically engineer cells.

To make use of artificial genes we need to make millions of copies of them for experiments using a process called polymerase chain reaction. By putting restriction sites into specific spots along the gene, we can cut it into bite-sized pieces that are easily duplicated millions of times. So the ability to cut and paste genes back together again is critical for designing genes to the right specifications, rapidly replicating them and putting them into vectors to genetically engineer cells.

We had some concerns from people. And occasionally we get calls saying the engineer was going too fast. We reduced the speed limit because we understand that is a sensitive area, and we want to make riders as comfortable as they can be.

We are very pleased to welcome Bill to the Halliburton team. Bill brings exceptional qualities to KBR as both an engineer and a business leader and he is well positioned to lead KBR with his seasoned background in energy, including liquefied natural gas (LNG) and other complex projects.

A lot of these sound like they aren't arcane. But if you compare a Porsche to a BMW and ask the engineer what actually makes a car better, it's that same thing. It's the gearing, the clutches. It's attention to a lot of details,

A lot of producers will intimidate you or leave it to the engineer when you're in the vocal booth. I'm at my most vulnerable when I'm singing, but he just had a great manner in the studio.

They're trying to see exactly what the engineer behind the controls saw on that day.

Our engineer is simply making sure this developer follows the letter of the law.

I've always been an engineer devoted to the potential of advanced technologies. Like most engineers, I have a keen sense of curiosity and a deep desire to learn. Garmin was my first entrepreneurial endeavour, and it has been an incredible journey.

This is a way for me to give back and use my knowledge and experience as a civil engineer to address some issues in front of the county.

In 1970, there was a single telephone company in the United States called AT&T, and its technology was called circuit switching, and that was all any telecom engineer worried about.

In this business, you don't have to be an architect or an engineer or a brick layer. But you have to understand how the money flows. That you can only understand if you're on the site.

If you remove the regulatory hurdle it paves the way for Toll to financially engineer how they can complete it. A higher cash component would definitely lure them across the line.

I've heard statistics that an engineer will hit three people in a 20-year career, ... I'm not looking forward to the day I do (hit someone), but it's probably inevitable.

That is very true for any walk of life and very true for my character in 'Prison Break' because he's a structural engineer. I did a little bit of reading about that. And structural engineering is the art and science of connectivity. The pieces of a building are all interdependent. My brother in the story is behind the wall and every brick in that wall represents the conspiracy that put him there. My job as his brother and as an engineer is to find that one brick and loosen it. And another and another and hopefully the whole thing will come down.

In '87, Kelley Moore was an eighth-grader, and when I came in, I was a younger officer, and I became his big brother and everything that I did he thought was cool. I would just talk to him and hang out with him. Now, Kelley is a engineer with Channel 8, and he comes and gets me and takes me to lunch, and it has become a lifelong friendship.

I think all eyes are on the economy and the Fed is trying to engineer a soft landing.

In the late Sixties a record producer was a more hands-on person. A record producer was often a skilled music arranger or an engineer or both.

He's (Price) the engineer that drives the train. He does a lot of things. He brings a spark and enthusiasm to our offense. He'll make some mistakes, but he has enough confidence to go back out there and not let it get to him.

They killed three policemen and kidnapped a British engineer working for a road construction company.

A producer's job is to find the songs and figure out how he wants to put everything together. But Justin had also the luxury of saying, 'OK, I want the record to sound this way.' He knew exactly how to make it sound that way and not depend on an engineer to do it. So right down the line from guitar sounds to the keyboards -- everything -- he knew exactly what he wanted to do.

An engineer is designing the runway right now.

The county can hire any registered engineer to conduct a speed survey. There many companies throughout the area qualified to do such a study.

The county wants to make this right. I had my engineer send a letter to tell the county that it was not a good installation. However, there's no immediate danger of it collapsing.

You've got to figure that the parks maintenance works with public works. It makes absolutely no sense having an extra person bugging the engineer if you don't have to.

The engineer believed she was trying to get out of the way, but she was a little unsteady and had trouble traversing the tracks.

The engineer said he saw a woman on the tracks. He sounded his horn. He applied his brakes. Of course he couldn't stop.

the emission and reception of signals by Marconi by means of electric oscillations is nothing new. In America, the famous engineer Nikola Tesla carried the same experiments in 1893.

The judges will award points based on the creative use of materials and related themes - it is amazing how the teams engineer and construct machines in so many different and imaginative ways to perform the same task.

The CX-7 wasn't even a sketch on a cocktail napkin a little over two years ago. The fact that I'm standing here today watching the first CX-7 roll off the line marks a milestone in Mazda's ability to design and engineer vehicles for specific markets such as North America.

A student would take a semester off to work for an engineer and gain an understanding of particular companies.

They needed a very senior engineer who could knock heads together when disputes arose and had backing from senior management. Steve is really tailor-made for the job.

It was a quick call by the race engineer and we need to see if it was right later.

To any engineer looking at this, you would have immediate concerns because the columns are skinny and spaced far apart.

We freed the Lebanese engineer few minutes ago.

Carter's approach is to try to decide what was best for the nation. He was trained as an engineer - his approach was to study a problem and reach his own conclusions and proceed. It's Carter being Carter.