#engine

Asian countries produce eight times as many engineering bachelors as the United States, and the number of U.S. students graduating at the masters and PhD levels in these areas is declining. ↗

— Mark Kennedy

#asian #asian countries #bachelors #countries #declining

The federal government was responsible for building the levees, engineering the levees, and consequentially, the federal government is responsible for repairing the damage that has been done, which has not been completed yet. ↗

— Mitch Landrieu

#building #completed #damage #done #engineering

I think that the most beautiful thing lately hasn't been in hardware or software per se but collaboration - the idea behind Napster, which uses the distributed power of the Internet as its engine. ↗

— Steven Levy

#beautiful thing #been #behind #collaboration #distributed

The heel is engineering in itself. This little thing that supports the human weight has to have a precise balance. ↗

— Christian Louboutin

#engineering #heel #human #itself #little

The real world is far too complex and unpredictable to make something like the idea of humanity controlling its own evolution or engineering itself - well, I wouldn't say impossible but it should be approached with a degree of caution. ↗

— Ken MacLeod

#caution #complex #controlling #degree #engineering

I am looking at opening a school of social engineering. The McAfee School of Social Engineering has a nice ring to it. Beyond that, it is hard to say what life will bring my way. ↗

— John McAfee

#beyond #bring #engineering #hard #i

I have a huge Lego collection - I have a really big Lego collection. We're talking pretty darn large. I also have a huge collection of original stainless steel Thomas the Tank Engine train toys. Beautiful little trains; they're my favorite thing in the world. ↗

— Callan McAuliffe

#beautiful #big #collection #darn #engine

The engineering is secondary to the vision. ↗

— Cynthia Ozick

#secondary #vision

My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918. ↗

— James Rainwater

#civil #died #engineer #epidemic #father

For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power and storage capacity to the minicomputers of ten years earlier - Unix engines capable of supporting a full development environment and talking to the Internet. ↗

— Eric S. Raymond

#capable #capacity #comparable #could #development