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“It was that engine which took me into automotive transportation.”
Henry Ford
“There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend the whole.”
Bill Wulf
“It's been a big job. We've committed hundreds of people to the project, and it has affected everything from engineering to marketing.”
Todd Brady
“The sound of a jet, an engine warming up, even the clopping of shod hooves on pavement brings on the ancient shudder, the dry mouth and vacant eye, the hot palms and the churn of stomach high up under the rib cage.”
John Steinbeck
“The engineering is secondary to the vision.”
Cynthia Ozick
“Ask ten engineers for the best orbit for a particular spacecraft and you'll get ten different ideas.”
Dario Izzo
“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.”
Herbert Simon
“Wit's an unruly engine, wildly striking/ Sometimes a friend, sometimes the engineer.”
George Herbert
“One of the great inventions of the twentieth century was the studied, methodical engineering of myth for political ends”
Caryl Rivers
“The American experiment is the most tremendous and far reaching engine of social change which has ever either blessed or cursed mankind.”
Charles Francis Adams