#engineer

Indeed, "brute force" solutions are often characteristic of advanced cultures, not primitive ones. The Romans and their predecessors spent a long time figuring out how to build arches... and virtually all our buildings today use post-and-lintel construction, precisely what the arch was devised to replace. We have better materials and more money, and given that, arches are usually not worth the extra complexity. ↗

— Henry Spencer

#brute-force #complexity #elegance #engineering #architecture

If you want engagement, you must engage. ↗

— Karen Martin

#continuous-improvement #kaizen #lean #process-design #process-improvement

Chaos is the enemy of any organization the strives to be outstanding. ↗

— Karen Martin

#continuous-improvement #kaizen #lean #process-design #process-improvement

Trinity’s witnesses responded just as those to Apollo 11 would, as J. Robert Oppenheimer remembered: "We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent." Oppenheimer later said the he beheld his radiant blooming cloud and thought of Hindu scripture: "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." Aloud, however, the physicist made the ultimate engineer comment: "It worked. ↗

— Craig Nelson

#engineers #death

When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart. ↗

— William Gibson

#engineering #psychoanalysis #psychology #design

Love is- when you prepared for engineering entrance exams whole year, but at the end choose an entirely diffrent course. ↗

— Anshuma Sharma

#anshuma-sharma #course #destiny #engineer #love

Tom would bring in songs, Mike would engineer, and we recorded about 30 songs. ↗

— Benmont Tench

#bring #engineer #mike #recorded #songs

I got out of high school, bought a recording studio and started operating it as an engineer and a producer. ↗

— T-Bone Burnett

#engineer #got #high #high school #i

I was always fascinated by engineering. Maybe it was an attempt maybe to get my father's respect or interest, or maybe it was just a genetic love of technology, but I was always trying to build things. ↗

— James Cameron

#attempt #build #engineering #fascinated #father

I could have gone on to be an engineer full time, except that there was more demand for my playing. But the love of working the board never leaves you. ↗

— Steve Cropper

#could #demand #engineer #except #full