#engineering

Companies like I.B.M. have offered women scholarships to study engineering for years, and women engineers routinely get higher starting salaries than men. ↗

— Warren Farrell

#engineering #engineers #get #higher #i

You had to make a camera look like it's traveling at 300 mph, but you couldn't make it actually travel at 300 mph so you had to slow everything down and build devices to do that. So you were constantly engineering. ↗

— John Dykstra

#build #camera #constantly #devices #down

Aviation is the branch of engineering that is least forgiving of mistakes. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#branch #engineering #forgiving #least #mistakes

A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#donnas #engineer #engineering #few #good

Meccano gives boys the secrets of the world's wonderful engineering structures. ↗

— Frank Hornby

#gives #secrets #structures #wonderful #world

We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing. ↗

— Leon Kass

#doing #engineering #enough #kinds #may

There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#devices #engineering #imperfection #iron #machinery

I worked with such concentration and focus and I had hundreds of obscure engineering or programming things in my head. I was just real exceptional in that way. ↗

— Steve Wozniak

#engineering #exceptional #focus #had #head

Mile tracks put more emphasis on the driver. On the longer tracks, you can drive flat out all the way around, so it's more of an engineering exercise. On a mile, you can't run flat out. You're constantly in traffic, there's more driver involvement. ↗

— Buddy Rice

#constantly #drive #driver #emphasis #engineering

The best thing that ever happened to me is that nothing happened in writing. I ended up working for engineering companies, and that's where I found my material, in the everyday struggle between capitalism and grace. Being broke and tired, you don't come home your best self. ↗

— George Saunders

#being broke #best #between #broke #capitalism