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Nuclear fusion of light elements like hydrogen or helium would permit approaching the speed of light. It seems very attractive to refuel your space ships where the fuel is.
Wilson Greatbatch
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As the component parts of all new machines may be said to be old[,] it is a nice discriminating judgment, which discovers that a particular arrangement will produce a new and desired effect.... Therefore, the mechanic should sit down among levers, screws, wedges, wheels, etc. like a poet among the letters of the alphabet, considering them as the exhibition of his thoughts; in which a new arrangement transmits a new idea to the world.
Robert Fulton
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To define it rudely but not inaptly, [engineering] is the art of doing that well with one dollar which any bungler can do with two after a fashion.
Arthur M. Wellington
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Innovation is the process of turning ideas into manufacturable and marketable form.
Watts Humphrey
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So, here we are - all part of this great hologram called Creation, which is everybody else's SELF.It's all a cosmic play, and there is nothing but you!
Itzhak Bentov
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It's a shame that we humans are never able to pull in the same direction... [n]ot even when confronted by infinity.
Gentry Lee
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To ordinary minds all creation is mystery; to cultivated minds there is much that is not quite inexplicable.
Henry Dircks
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It is quite possible that the truest and most eloquent art is a successful fusion of both the visible and visionary worlds, each enhancing and reinforcing the other.
Edward Betts
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It is not given to our weak intellects to understand the steps of Providence as they occur: we comprehend them only as we look back upon them in the far-distant past.
George B. McClellan
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There are four purposes of improvement: easier, better, faster, and cheaper. These four goals appear in the order of priority.
Shigeo Shingo
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By long-standing tradition, I take this opportunity to savage other
designers in the thin disguise of good, clean fun.
P. J. Plauger
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Learning to inhibit unwanted contractions of muscles that function without, or in spite of, our will, is the main task in coordinated action.
Moshé Feldenkrais
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Java development without a little heresy would be a dull place, and a dangerous one.
Bruce Tate
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We offer them mediocrity while calling it magic. We offer them the illusion of intelligent software, seducing them into surrendering the task of thinking to the machine. Of course, the machine isn't thinking, which means that nobody is.
Larry Constantine
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Some people will say that a respect for regulations is essential and that engineers need not check the hypotheses on which they are based. This is a convenient theory, but a false one. Men who draw up regulations can be wrong like other men.
Eugène Freyssinet
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The designs we see in nature are not the result of chance. They rise naturally, spontaneously, because they enhance access to flow…
Adrian Bejan
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Managers' typical response to my argument about free time is, 'That's all well and good, but there are things I have to do.' Yet we waste so much time in unproductive activity—it takes an enormous effort on the part of the leader to keep free time for the truly important things.
Dov Frohman
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The fifth century BC historian Herodotus called Egypt 'the gift of the Nile'. The Egyptians themselves went a lot further. They claimed that their sacred river had its source among the stars.
Robert Bauval
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First law: The pesticide paradox. Every method you use to prevent or find bugs leaves a residue of subtler bugs against which those methods are ineffective.
Boris Beizer
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The greatest risk we face in software development is that of overestimating our own knowledge.
Jim Highsmith
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If I had my way... there wouldn't be a single lion or tiger in captivity anywhere in the world. They never take to it. They're never happy. They never settle down... You can see it in their eyes...
Hugh Lofting
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Remote Sensing is defined as the acquisition of information about an object without being in physical contact with it.
Charles Elachi
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Mathematics higher than the calculus is of small value to the engineer, except possibly as a training for the mind...
John Alexander Low Waddell
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The men who miss success have two general alibis: 'I'm not a genius' is one; and the other, 'There aren't the opportunities today there used to be'.
Charles M. Schwab
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In every crisis, if you look carefully, you will spot an opportunity. My insistence is on finding and seizing that opportunity. I never try to side-step a crisis. Rather, the more monstrous the crises, the more I am tempted to rush at it, grasp it by the horns and man-oeuvre it until it gives me what I want
Verghese Kurien
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