Top 1200 Civil Engineer Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

The amateur software engineer is always in search of magic.

The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where all can see them. His acts, step by step, are in hard substance. He cannot bury his mistakes in the grave like the doctors. He cannot argue them into thin air or blame the judge like the lawyers. He cannot, like the architects, cover his failures with trees and vines. He cannot, like the politicians, screen his shortcomings by blaming his opponents and hope the people will forget. The engineer simply cannot deny he did it. If his works do not work, he is damned.

I am a Quantum Engineer, but on Sundays I Have Principles.

You don't have to be a nerd or a programmer or a network engineer to make a difference.

Experience shows that great enterprises seldom end with a tidy and satisfactory flourish. Together, we are doing our best to re-establish peace and civil order in the Gulf region, and to help those members of civil and ethnic minorities who continue to suffer through no fault of their own. If we succeed, our military success will have achieved its true objective.

A mechanic is just an engineer in blue jeans.

California is an easy place to be an Asian woman engineer.

I don't have to be an engineer to understand we need female engineers.

If I had not been a monk, I would have become an engineer.

I'm an engineer turned entrepreneur who's passionate about connection.

We are two brothers: I am a doctor; my brother is an engineer.

I scientifically engineer my music to be as accessible as possible.

I was a sound engineer. That was my day job when I started writing.

Complexity is not a goal. I don't want to be remembered as an engineer of complex systems.

Any court which undertakes by its legal processes to enforce civil liberties needs the support of an enlightened and vigorous public opinion which will be intelligent and discriminating as to what cases really are civil liberties cases and what questions really are involved in those cases.

Every person with a pulse has a responsibility to stand in solidarity with the Muslim community that is on the front lines fighting against groups like ISIS, both militarily and ideologically, every day, and now on the front line of standing up for civil liberties and civil rights to make America great. [They] are the best insurance for the safety of all Americans.

Before I became a game designer, I was a software engineer.

From the engineer to the producer, all of these roles are critical to creating a song.

You are a manipulator. I like to think of myself more as an outcome engineer.

A scientist describes what is. An engineer creates what never was.

A lawyer is either a social engineer or he is a parasite on society.

I never knew what an engineer did for a living when I was a kid. I still don't.

My ma is an economist. My dad is a software engineer.

I'm an artistic person and a creator. I'm not a scientific. I'm not an engineer.

You're no longer the engineer or the physicist or the writer - you're the whistleblower.

My father, an engineer, was the gentlest man I knew.

If you're not excited about the field of engineering that you have, you can't be a good engineer.

Logan was talking about the Civil War, which claimed the lives of more than 500,000 Americans. He wanted to provide Civil War veterans with a day to pay respects to their fellow soldiers who did not live to see the end of the war, without losing a day's pay.

You have to have a multipronged approach and a significant part of that is educating the public and change the culture so that people are less afraid of Arabs or Muslims, more attuned to civil rights and civil liberties issues that are presented, more aware of the security costs of some of the kinds of choices the Bush administration had made, and more committed to the values that America was founded upon.

I don't want to be a hardware engineer. That seems like a terrible job.

Seattle is not an overly friendly city. It is a civil city, but not altogether friendly. People from outside mistake the civility for friendliness. Seattle is full of people who have their own lives to live. They won't waste their time being friendly. But they are civil.

There's always something that an engineer can do to make microscopes better.

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

I am an engineer and belong to a family of engineers and Cas.

I'm definitely going back to school to be a computer engineer.

Being a scientist/engineer by nature, I approach everything as a problem.

An Engineer is no match for a Historian with his dander up!

My dad is a Ghanaian immigrant, and he wanted a son who was an engineer.

I went to live in Barcelona in 1975, when I was twenty. Even before I went there, I knew more about the Spanish Civil War than I did about the Irish Civil War. I liked Barcelona, and then I grew to like a place in the Catalan Pyrenees called the Pillars, especially an area between the village of Flavors and the high mountains around it.

My father is an engineer, and my mother raised the three children.

The task of the software development team is to engineer the illusion of simplicity.

Good technology is intuitive - the cellphone forces you to become an engineer.

Snowden is an orderly thinker, with an engineer's approach to problem-solving.

In general, no engineer hates higher performance.

If I wasn't an engineer, I would have been a film journalist.

As you may know, I am a mechanical engineer.

My grandfather was an engineer who invented the automatic pilot for airplanes.

I was an engineer for a long time. I was a sideman guitar player.

What it targets is not something that's really looked at a lot in terms of the war. This is stuff that's off the beaten path in terms of what we think of every time you start a Civil War history or a Civil War presentation. It's usually about the military and the soldiers and all that stuff. And this is not. It's the backdrop to a place and a time and circumstances that didn't have anything to do with that.

I want to be a writer, not an engineer who writes books.

Two households, both alike in dignity In fair Verona, where we lay our scene From ancient grudge break to new mutiny Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life Whose misadventured piteous overthrows Do with their death bury their parents' strife.

I have to feel like my grandmother was my first mix engineer.

For me writing is as close to being an engineer as possible.

My mother is a teacher, and my father is a chief marine engineer.

Anyone who asserted wrong teachings, anyone serving the devil or his demons, earned instead an equally remarkable antagonism. In their official high meetings together, Christians thus could not keep their own disagreements within the bounds of civil language; their continual quarrels required the intervention of the civil authorities; and all this was well known and noted by friends and foes alike.

An engineer can do for a dollar what any fool can do for two

I am an engineer and not a trained social worker.

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

Okay, so here's my question: When did civility become incompatible with protest? Why do some people consider civility an antonym - anathema, even - to political action and dissent? Because, and I'm raising my voice, it's not. Have we forgotten how Mahatma Gandhi used nonviolent civil disobedience to free India from British rule and inspire civil rights movements worldwide?

As Paretsky detailed in her short memoir Writing in an Age of Silence (2007), early optimism buoyed by the civil rights movement of the 1960s and early 1970s has, in her view, all but crumbled in the face of a bombardment of sadism and misogyny, the withholding of civil liberties, and the nation's move from proud speech into near-deafening silence.