#engine

The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#engineering #foot #human #masterpiece #work

My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English. ↗

— Eric Allin Cornell

#engineering #english #father #high #high school

Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology. ↗

— Karl Popper

#ends #engineering #physical #piecemeal #province

The engineering is long gone in most PC companies. In the consumer electronics companies, they don't understand the software parts of it. And so you really can't make the products that you can make at Apple anywhere else right now. Apple's the only company that has everything under one roof. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#apple #companies #company #consumer #electronics

Basically, if reverse engineering is banned, then a lot of the open source community is doomed to fail. ↗

— Jon Johansen

#basically #community #doomed #engineering #fail

O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion! ↗

— Ben Jonson

#clocks #engine #forget #his #keep

I started out in engineering. I was a geophysical engineer. Throughout the course of my life I've done a lot of strange jobs, and the effect has been to make me think a little more skeptically about our capitalist society. ↗

— George Saunders

#been #capitalist #capitalist society #course #done

We worked with the engineers in the design and construction and testing phases in those various areas, then we would get back together at the end of the week and brief each other as to what had gone on. ↗

— Alan Shepard

#back #brief #construction #design #each

The engineer, and more generally the designer, is concerned with how things ought to be - how they ought to be in order to attain goals, and to function. ↗

— Herbert Simon

#concerned #designer #engineer #function #generally

The writer is the engineer of the human soul. ↗

— Joseph Stalin

#human #human soul #soul #writer