Quotes by Engineers - Page 2

We praise our leaders when they act against our adversaries. But when our own interest is threatened, we begin to dislike the same leaders, irrespective of the sincerity of their intentions. An effective leader is bound to create enemies.

Awdhesh Singh

A saint or monk can afford to be compassionate to all, but a leader or boss cannot always be kind. He may soon be without a job himself if he is unduly compassionate, and chances are, no one would show him any compassion then.

Awdhesh Singh

Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.

Neil Armstrong

When we get down to the very basics of human life we find that we arrive to take a ride on spaceship Earth for several decades and then we leave.

Steven Magee

Time is really the only gift we receive from God that we can give to others.

Homer Hickam

I recently cleared up my Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS). The condition is real, it has a sound foundation as to why it occurs in the human, and can be cleared up by taking the appropriate steps.

Steven Magee

Purchasing a large and expensive home during a real estate boom turned into the biggest financial mistake that I ever made.

Steven Magee

Until the police internal affairs system starts prosecuting and firing a substantial number of corrupt and incompetent police officers, I will not be lighting it up blue!

Steven Magee

In terms of the Internet, it's like humanity acquiring a collective nervous system. Whereas previously we were more like a [?], like a collection of cells that communicated by diffusion. With the advent of the Internet, it was suddenly like we got a nervous system. It's a hugely impactful thing.

Elon Musk

When doing a job — any job — one must feel that he owns it, and act as though he will remain in that job forever.

Hyman G. Rickover

Je me rends parfaitement compte du desagreable effet que produit sur la majorite de l'humanité, tout ce qui se rapporte, même au plus faible dègré, á des calculs ou raisonnements mathematiques.I am well aware of the disagreeable effect produced on the majority of humanity, by whatever relates, even at the slightest degree to calculations or mathematical reasonings.

Hiram Stevens Maxim

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

Herbert Hoover

Many of the younger generation know my name in a vague way and connect it with grotesque inventions, but don't believe that I ever existed as a person. They think I am a nonperson, just a name that signifies a tangled web of pipes or wires or strings that suggest machinery. My name to them is like a spiral staircase, veal cutlets, barber's itch—terms that give you an immediate picture of what they mean.

Rube Goldberg

I dread having to call the police, as I have no idea if they will send good cop, bad cop, lying cop, incompetent cop, aggressive cop, assaulting cop, corrupt cop, or the worst one of them all, the terminator cop.

Steven Magee

The way I see it, if everybody ran from bad things instead of trying to stop them, bad things would be all there is.

Homer Hickam

Trees are affected by many factors. Global warming is changing rainfall, humidity, air composition, solar radiation, heating and cooling. Plants are sensitive to any of these factors. When all of the factors start to change at once, it may lead to devastation in the plant world.

Steven Magee

Yeah, I am crazy. Ok. May be I am. But I prefer to be crazy than being a dummy.

Ravindra Shukla

Mankind willfully changing the global electromagnetic radiation environment has created what I expect will become known as the man-made evolution era.

Steven Magee

Smart radiation researchers use radiation resistance health techniques in order to offset the known biological harm of their toxic radiation exposures.

Steven Magee

Dr. John Nash Ott had discovered by 1987 that glass, artificial light sources, electricity and electronic systems were having extensive detrimental effects on plants, animals and humans.

Steven Magee

Police not enforcing laws results in a high crime rate that is formally reported as a low crime rate in police statistics.

Steven Magee

I regard taking healthy sea level adapted children to the 13,796 feet very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea as a form of child abuse.

Steven Magee

It was common for my father to sit my sisters down and tell them things like, "I saw a girl working in the bank in town, and she was a girl just like you." My parents had never completed primary school. They couldn't speak English or even read that well. My parents only knew the language of numbers, buying and selling, but they wanted more for their kids. That's why my father had scraped the money together and kept Annie in school, despite the famine and other troubles.

William Kamkwamba

I have no faith in the USA corporate government systems of protection of public health and safety.

Steven Magee

Whatever we may say, all of us suffer from disturbed sleep at times.Some in truth hardly sleep, though some who sleep copiously swear that they do not.Some are disquieted by incessant dreams, and a fortunate few are visited often by dreams of delightful character.Some will say that they were at one time troubled in sleeping but have 'recovered' from it, as though awareness were a disease, as perhaps it is.

Gene Wolfe

The biggest surprise that I had during my time in high altitude astronomy was being prevented from arranging a free Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) onsite evaluation to assist with bringing the observatory into OSHA compliance by the upper management team that I reported to.

Steven Magee

The steam engine has done much more for science than science has done for the steam engine.

William Thomson

I am not angry at Microsoft, as they did give me Windows 10 for free! I do feel a little misled about its reliability on older computers never certified for its installation by the manufacturer though.

Steven Magee

But I was awake, sitting by the window looking down at the trailer and Mr. Zoltan's truck. I could not sleep. That is how it is with folks my age. We take naps during the day, and then we cannot sleep at night. I think that it is because God is getting us ready for the grave. Is that right? Did He ever tell you? ("The Little Stranger")

Gene Wolfe

The long term health effects from utility company smart meters present a far greater risk to the general population than terrorism in the USA.

Steven Magee

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

Writing on architecture is not like history or poetry.

Vitruvius Pollio

It is easy to build a philosophy. It doesn't have to run.

Charles F. Kettering

Rise early and seize each day, learn much and use this knowledge well, spend time with those you love, never abuse your pets, use logic to fight the irrational (for it is everywhere), defend the environment and its wildlife as a knight would protect King Arthur, meld mind and heart for greatest creativity, follow your dreams, and become all that you can be.

Charles Kohlhase

It is well, I think, for us to learn to tell evil from good; but it has its price, as everything does. We leave our evil friend behind.

Gene Wolfe

A researcher that has a brain that functions differently from their peers is at an advantage, as they can see things that the others cannot.

Steven Magee

I think we may have reached the point where guns need to be confiscated from police officers.

Steven Magee

Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) is a major problem from poorly tested products and it should be dealt with sooner rather than later by government regulators.

Steven Magee

People that have a police car behind them pulling them over should put on their hazard lights and continue slowly driving to the nearest densely populated public place, such as a supermarket or shopping center. Pull over outside the busy entrance and start your video camera. Inform the police officer that you are video recording and very slowly give the requested documentation. Exercise your legal right to silence while the many independent witnesses video record the unexpected stop that rudely interrupts your day. If you are given a ticket, choose to go to court. It will give you time to obtain independent legal advice about the allegation.

Steven Magee

Of all challenges, convincing dumb ones is the most difficult. Manipulation works better in such cases if your heart allows.

Ravindra Shukla

If you want to radiation poison a nation, just start shipping them cheap ionizing smoke detectors for the home with a little too much radiation in them.

Steven Magee

Oh the heat of love takes away the chill of yesterdays sorrow and pain

John M Sheehan

Arguably insane utility workers that blatantly harass law abiding customers is likely to become more frequent as the long term effects of biologically toxic radio frequency (RF) radiation exposures from their transmitting smart meters continues to emerge.

Steven Magee

We are the last generation of humans on Earth!

Bill Gaede

I routinely inform people when I meet them that I am like a real life version of Dory the fish, as I am very forgetful and have problems tracking conversations.

Steven Magee

My optimism and confidence come not from feeling I'm luckier than other mortals, and they sure don't come from visualizing victory. They're the result of a lifetime spent visualizing defeat and figuring out how to prevent it. Like most astronauts, I'm pretty sure that I can deal with what life throws at me because I've thought about what to do if things go wrong, as well as right. That's the power of negative thinking.

Chris Hadfield

The secret to good health is to behave like your ancestors did before the Industrial Revolution.

Steven Magee

To think that one morning we will open our eyes and see Jesus for who He really is living a good morning for all of eternity

John M Sheehan

President Trump is doing a great job of demonstrating how mean the rich can be to the poor, sick and elderly.

Steven Magee

The general public has failed to realize that the USA government has built a High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) in most cities with the mass deployment of smart radio frequency transmitting utility meters.

Steven Magee

Inside every poor creature was a sense of some other happy destiny, a destiny that was necessary and inevitable -why, then, did they find their lives such a burden and why were they always waiting for something?

Andrei Platonov

I have every expectation that cancer will become known as the disease of human evolution trying and failing to adapt to a significantly changed environment.

Steven Magee

Everything in this world seems to be created in pairs. If there is a man, there is a woman—in almost equal numbers. In the same way, there is pleasure with pain, love with hatred, wisdom with ignorance, passion with repulsion, ecstasy with depression, and so on. The world seems to have been divided into two attributes—good and evil. Even God seems to be divided--God Himself and His counterpart—the Devil.

Awdhesh Singh

I have noticed that the solar radiation reflections from rippled privacy windows cause greatly accelerated growth patterns in plants

Steven Magee

Laughter is the deadliest weapon of all: with laughter you can murder anything, even murder.

Evgeny Zamjatin

The most dangerous thing in life is an incompetent that has been given a gun and a law enforcement badge.

Steven Magee

Criminal: a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.

Howard Scott

Prosperity is just around the corner.

Herbert Hoover

The knowledge of the Spirit is the true secret of creativity, leadership and happiness. It is spiritual intelligence that makes an ordinary person a genius. When a genius loses his spiritual intelligence, he becomes quite ordinary.

Awdhesh Singh

When the police willfully break the law on video and then deny the event in writing, you know that you are dealing with a blatantly corrupt group of people.

Steven Magee

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