"Kevyn, Ennesby tells me you are building a time machine.Actually I'm finished.In one afternoon? Wow... Does it work?After a fashion....I put a whole lot of energy into it, and the next thing I knew it..."
- Howard Tayler
"Engineering is the continuation of politics by other means"
- Larrie D. Ferreiro
"Unfortunately, humans have a long history of trying to fix their engineering mistakes with more engineering mistakes!"
- Steven Magee
"A societal revolution is politically organic in nature. It can't be engineered. It has to be evolved."
- Mamur Mustapha
"Mister Geoffrey, my experiment shows that the dynamo and the bulb are both working properly," I said. "So why won't the radio play?""I don't know," he said. "Try connecting them here."He was pointing ..."
- William Kamkwamba
"I love doing it. Every building is like a person. Single and unrepeatable."
- Ayn Rand
"When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart."
- William Gibson
"Character is like 'Structural Integrity' in the field of engineering.A construction is believed to have structural integrity when it can withstand 'impact' from anywhere and anything, functioning adeq..."
- Olaotan Fawehinmi
"If automating everything makes people lazier and lazier, and laziness leads to stupidity, which it does for most people, judging by the current content circulating the social networks everywhere, exce..."
- Will Advise
"In literature, too, we admire prose in which a small and astutely arranged set of words has been constructed to carry a large consignment of ideas. 'We all have strength enough to bear the misfortunes..."
- Alain de Botton