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Feed the troops on victory.
Time is not important, but art is.
No man is a hero in his own country.
Intuition is the soul within the soul.
Design is nothing if not decision making.
Science is about knowing; engineering is about doing.
Where combination is possible, competition is impossible.
Engineering is achieving function while avoiding failure.
No price is too great to preserve the health of the fleet.
To any mental state there corresponds a physical condition.
An engineer can do for a dollar what any fool can do for two
Our expectations for a technology rise with its advancement.
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The Divine flow that wants to move through me requires stillness.
The best hope for Australia is the ballot box and good education.
I have always had a predominantly visual approach to my environment.
The French flag is the only one to have a staff a thousand feet tall.
Intuition without reason is the fertile mother of blunders and wrongs.
You could say I was too lazy to calculate, so I invented the computer.
It is not true that virtually all news in a totalitarian state is false.
An over-reliance on past successes is a sure blueprint for future failures.
Successful engineering is all about understanding how things break or fail.
If a man has directed his course to great ends there is compensation even in ruin.
The direct consequence is that we have to fight with each other in order to survive.
If I could go upstairs and write every day, I would be happy. I don't need recreation.
I am glad to learn that the Parliament Bill has been passed for the Darlington Railway.
As engineers, we were going to be in a position to change the world - not just study it.
It is really want, rather than need, that drives the process of technological evolution.
The rage for railroads is so great that many will be laid in parts where they will not pay.
Read and write with a sensitive ear. The craft of writing is very important. Practice the craft.
Many new technologies come with a promise to change the world, but the world refuses to cooperate.
Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice
Equip yourself for life, not solely for your own benefit, but for the benefit of the whole community
Any design, whether its for a ship or an airplane, must be done in anticipation of potential failures.
Any design, whether it's for a ship or an airplane, must be done in anticipation of potential failures.
Failure is Central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation.
The danger of computers becoming like humans is not as great as the danger of humans becoming like computers.
The rattling of the relays of the Z4 was the only interesting thing to be experienced in Zurich's night life!
Successful design is not the achievement of perfection but the minimization and accommodation of imperfection.
You can almost say that a design error is a human error because, after all, it's we humans who do the designing.
No one wants to learn from mistakes, but we cannot learn enough from successes to go beyond the state of the art.
I'm a firm believer that no matter how small an object is, you can find interesting things out about it and its history.
No design, no matter how common or seemingly insignificant, is without its adamant critics as well as its ardent admirers.
I don't care a damn for your loyal service when you think I am right; when I really want it most is when you think I am wrong.
Truth is the one thing in nature always consistent with itself, and it is the one guide given to us in steering on the ocean of fate.
Relying on nothing but scientific knowledge to produce an engineering solution is to invite frustration at best and failure at worst.
It seems to be a law of design that for every advantage introduced through redesign, there is an accompanying unintended disadvantage.
Great triumphs of engineering genius-the locomotive, the truss bridge, the steel rail- ... are rather invention than engineering proper.
We can't simply blame the engineers when things go wrong because, no matter how well they plan, things don't always go according to plan.
Knowledge of our duties is the most essential part of the philosophy of life. If you escape duty you avoid action. The world demands results.