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My brother's an aerospace engineer who works for Boeing, and I started thinking, 'Well, my brother works nine hours a day at his job... What if I worked nine hours a day at being an actor?'

~Brent Sexton

Topics: Actor Aerospace Being Brother Day Engineer His Hours Job Nine Started Thinking Well What If Who Worked Works

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Without mincing words or really embellishing anything... I consider Mike Alsbury the renaissance man. He could do it all. He was an engineer. He was a pilot. He worked well with others. He had a great sense of humor. I never heard him raise his voice or lose his cool.

~Brian Binnie

Topics: Anything Consider Cool Could Engineer Great Great Sense Had He Heard Him His Humor Lose Man Mike Never Others Pilot Raise Really Renaissance Sense Sense Of Humor Voice Well Without Words Worked

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I should say that I usually have a good experience on Amtrak. Still, if Amtrak could replace electric horns with steam whistles, they could make big strides. A horn is a horn is a horn, but a steam whistle is a voice and a song. People used to know which engineer was running which engine based on the call of the whistle.

~Brian Floca

Topics: Based Big Call Could Electric Engine Engineer Experience Good Horn Horns Know Make People Replace Running Say Should Song Steam Still Strides Used Voice Which Whistle

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As an engineer, I tended to maintain my own equipment along with developing the processes for it.

~Brian Krzanich

Topics: Along Developing Engineer Equipment Maintain My Own Own Processes

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In order to predict effectively, we need to use science. And the reason that we need to use science is because then we can reproduce what we're doing; it's not just wisdom or guesswork. And if we can predict, then we can engineer the future.

~Bruce Bueno De Mesquita

Topics: Because Doing Effectively Engineer Future Just Need Order Predict Reason Reproduce Science Then Use Wisdom

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Engineering stimulates the mind. Kids get bored easily. They have got to get out and get their hands dirty: make things, dismantle things, fix things. When the schools can offer that, you'll have an engineer for life.

~Bruce Dickinson

Topics: Bored Dirty Dismantle Easily Engineer Engineering Fix Get Got Hands Kids Life Make Mind Offer Out Schools Stimulates Things You

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I was born in the small town of Gorizia, Italy, on 31 March, 1934. My father was an electrical engineer at the local telephone company and my mother an elementary school teacher.

~Carlo Rubbia

Topics: Born Company Electrical Elementary Elementary School Engineer Father Italy Local March Mother School School Teacher Small Small Town Teacher Telephone Town I Was Born

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I'm a fairly ordinary person - a lifelong reader, a former software engineer, and former math teacher. I come from a wonderful family of teachers, musicians, librarians, and engineers. I think I surprised them as well as my friends and coworkers when I took up writing as a hobby and let it take over my life!

~Carol Berg

Topics: Come Coworkers Engineer Engineers Fairly Family Former Friends Hobby Life Lifelong Math Musicians My Life Ordinary Ordinary Person Over Person Reader Software Surprised Take Teacher Teachers Them Think Took Up Well Wonderful Writing I Think

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From here, it becomes an engineering problem; the engineer considers the ground motion that will occur and evaluates the requirements of the proposed structure in the light of the local foundation conditions.

~Charles Francis Richter

Topics: Becomes Conditions Considers Engineer Engineering Foundation Ground Here Light Local Motion Occur Problem Proposed Requirements Structure Will

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Here I am, a not over-good business man, a second-rate engineer. I can make poor mechanical drawings. I play the piano after a fashion. In fact, I am one of those proverbial Jack-of-all-trades who are usually failures. Why I am not, I can't tell you.

~Charles M. Schwab

Topics: After Am Business Drawings Engineer Fact Failures Fashion Here In Fact Make Man Mechanical Piano Play Poor Second-Rate Tell Those Who Why You I Am I Can

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