#engineering

Crossrail is a prime example of infrastructure. It is a rather deadly word, but I think it is exciting stuff, the civil engineering which makes Britain tick - the bridges, tunnels, power and water networks, which bind us together. ↗

— Evan Davis

#bridges #britain #civil #deadly #engineering

Historically, the British have always been rather wary of grand engineering projects - perhaps understandably, given that many of them have been delivered late and over budget. ↗

— Evan Davis

#been #british #budget #delivered #engineering

I suspect any worries about genetic engineering may be unnecessary. Genetic mutations have always happened naturally, anyway. ↗

— James Lovelock

#always #any #anyway #engineering #genetic

Globalisation means that for a high-wage, developed economy like Britain's to compete we need to focus our efforts on the highly skilled, added-value sectors such as advanced manufacturing, creative industries, engineering and even financial services. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#britain #compete #creative #developed #economy

From here, it becomes an engineering problem; the engineer considers the ground motion that will occur and evaluates the requirements of the proposed structure in the light of the local foundation conditions. ↗

— Charles Francis Richter

#conditions #considers #engineer #engineering #foundation

The public should know that the liability issues here have yet to be resolved, or even raised. If you're a farmer and you're growing a genetically engineering food crop, those genes are going to flow to the other farm. ↗

— Jeremy Rifkin

#engineering #even #farm #farmer #flow

I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

#engineering #engineers #financial #had #i

When everything is a priority, nothing is a priority. ↗

— Karen Martin

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

Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer. ↗

— Jamie Zawinski

#engineering #hacker #i #i do #might

Chaos is NOT a condition of doing business. ↗