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Most of the work performed by a development engineer results in failure. ↗

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In 1978, I entered Tohoku University, into the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Technology. ↗

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However, the occasional visit of success provides just the excitement an engineer needs to face work the following day. ↗

— Koichi Tanaka

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My latter schooldays and my university days were during the war, when science - physics, in particular - was a very important and glamorous subject. A lot of us felt that if we couldn't get into science, we might try engineering or medicine. ↗

— John Henry Carver

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The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large. ↗

— Tim Berners-Lee

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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

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If you want engagement, you must engage. ↗

— Karen Martin

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

— Karen Martin

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

— William Gibson

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