Top 1200 Civil Engineering Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Social engineering is using manipulation, influence and deception to get a person, a trusted insider within an organization, to comply with a request, and the request is usually to release information or to perform some sort of action item that benefits that attacker.

When I wrote 'The Secret Life of Bees,' I was writing about civil rights.

Tongues I'll hang on every tree That shall civil sayings show. . . .

During the nineteenth century, the rapid emergence and proliferation of new manufacturing methods and building technologies led to the establishment of polytechnic schools that concentrated on the practicalities of engineering and construction rather than the niceties of stylistic correctness or adherence to established precedent.

For me, jazz will always be the soundtrack of the civil rights movement.

I think that civil rights issues take a lot of time to develop.

Companies want to innovate. Companies that don't innovate wither on the vine. The connection between STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) and the financial stability of a nation is what needs to established.

I'm just not sure I trust the federal government not to trample on civil liberties.

There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights.

Those who would give up their civil liberties for security deserve neither.

Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the world if more men had that sort of mental start in life even if they did not pursue the profession.

That in a civil war there is continuous fighting, based on grievences that are forever changing.

My dad is from Panama; he came to the U.S. in 1971. He came to study chemical engineering at the University of Delaware. He thought he would go back, and then he met my mom here. I was born and mostly raised in Delaware.

Education is the single-most important civil rights issue that we face today.

You can rebel in different ways. Civil disobedience is rebelling. As long as it's peaceful, of course.

During the 60's, I was, in fact, very concerned about the civil rights movement.

When I was working in my first job engineering construction, what I liked the most was working with architects and making buildings that had this creative side coming from the architect and that were making them a big success.

The Civil War ravaged the Southern states, while leaving the North untouched.

I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her.

Once we destroyed the Saddam regime, we knew there was going to be a civil war.

I would say that the evocative qualities of music are usually put there in post-production in the reverb. It's really not much about the musicians as the engineering. It's post-production that's being done by the musician at the time.

The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.

I do not support a civil war. I don't want to be policeman of the world. But we can't back off of this.

The whole freedom of man consists either in spiritual or civil liberty.

Forget it, Louis, no Civil War picture ever made a nickel.

Be civil to all; serviceable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.

I think I finally chose the graduate degree in engineering primarily because it only took one year and law school took three years, and I felt the pressure of being a little behind - although I was just 22.

... being a feminist means that you believe in civil rights and social justice.

In college, I was so blessed to have relationships with those who did the civil rights movement.

If people are more civil about games, that'd make me super happy.

It is our responsibility to stand up for equality, fairness, and civil rights.

Few whites are ready to actively promote civil rights for blacks.

I do quite like Gehry's Guggenheim. But where in Bilbao it's seen as an outgrowth of years of investment in urban design and engineering, in Britain it's seen as the catalyst for urban regeneration rather than the icing on the cake.

Lorenzo de' Medici seeks highly skilled, aesthetically oriented individual to conceive and implement several major public projects. You are a generalist with sound training in structural engineering, synthesis of pigments and Christian iconography. Some climbing involved

I have a daily call thats 2.5 hrs with the entire team: from materials, sourcing, manufacturing, design, sensor, firmware... mechanical engineering?-?all together and they all have to sit through each other's updates... but then understand what those tradeoffs are and I sort of force that communication.

A vital democracy requires an informed electorate, civil discourse, and bold thinking.

For me, as a woman in one of the less diverse fields - electrical engineering, which is what I studied in college - it was hard to persist and really build a career. Some of the things I experienced were really scary, and they weren't experiences that I wanted for my daughter.

As part of our dedication to safety engineering in biology, we're trying to get better at creating physically contained test systems to develop something that eventually will be so biologically contained that we won't need physical containment anymore.

I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.

Most scientific or engineering discoveries would never become successful products without contributions from other scientists or engineers. Every major invention is the child of far-flung parents who may never meet.

Students for a Democratic Society was also affiliated with the civil rights movement everywhere.

There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement.

Every country ended slavery without civil war; US could have.

They [the English] have a special word, "civil," for what is elsewhere merely ordinary politeness.

Decision making can sometimes seem like inner civil war.

Civil confusions often spring from trifles but decide great issues.

My daughter makes great jewellery and my son wants to pursue engineering. They've both been indoctrinated by the school of Linley. People want to get back to painting, building, exploring what their creative sides can do - it's something all human beings crave.

The BJP promised that the end of Article 370 was going to be the close of business-as-usual in Kashmir. But if anything defines business-as-usual, it has been New Delhi's attempts at political engineering in the Valley.

The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.

Presidents who restrict civil liberties, even in wartime, are usually judged harshly for it.

It's always best to stay out of other people's divorces. And their civil wars.

My father, a former Air India official, but essentially an inventor at heart - a man who loved to sometimes break machines just so that he could have the joy of re-engineering them - was a twinkly-eyed, ever-optimistic man of science.

In 2012, I got my first Gujarati film. After that, a lot of things changed for me and for the Gujarati film industry. I did my early films by taking leave from my engineering job.

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.

Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Let no man think we can deny civil liberty to others and retain it for ourselves.

I'm not happy, frankly. Because I think in a civil society we don't need firearms.

No civil rights movement has gotten anywhere without the help of white liberals.

If the true spark of religious and civil liberty be kindled, it will burn.

I'm in the civil discourse business. I think it takes all kinds. And more power to everybody.