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My dad and my mom convinced me to go into biomedical engineering because they said astronauts going to Mars will need life support systems.
The key to social engineering is influencing a person to do something that allows the hacker to gain access to information or your network.
Just because you started your careers in a certain role, let's say hardware engineering, does not mean you'll end your careers in hardware.
To his and everybody else's way of thinking, you should build a house with your own hands before you start talking about being an engineer.
In the next decade we plan to create the first gender balance engineering school in Africa. We believe women should be part of the solution.
I went to college and did advanced electronical engineering, not really knowing what I wanted to do. It bored me to death, so I dropped out.
I was attracted to things that combined art and science equally. I've always been equally interested in art design, science and engineering.
I never studied sculpture, engineering or architecture. In fact, after college I applied to seven art schools and was rejected by all seven.
Proper accounting is like engineering. You need a margin of safety. Thank God we don't design bridges and airplanes the way we do accounting.
The notion that better engineering can solve all our problems is rooted in an ignorance of non-linear systems and selective/wishful thinking.
To say that a man is made up of certain chemical elements is a satisfactory description only for those who intend to use him as a fertilizer.
Like Grand Central Station, which is a marvelous building, the design and engineering of the Oculus will endure for many generations to come.
Engineering is not only study of 45 subjects but it is moral studies of intellectual life. Make things as simple as possible..but not simpler.
In our firm's earliest days, our understanding of the power of great software engineering and quantitative analytics helped Citadel stand out.
I studied economics. I studied industrial engineering. It wasn't until later, when I was around 26, that I really decided to go to film school.
Medical engineering is one of the areas in which the traditional 'silo' structures of university disciplines have not encouraged collaboration.
The first principle of architectural beauty is that the essential lines of a construction be determined by a perfect appropriateness to its use.
'Social engineering,' the fancy term for tricking you into giving away your digital secrets, is at least as great a threat as spooky technology.
All the traditional STEM fields, the science, technology, engineering, and math fields, are stoked when you dream big in an agency such as NASA.
I went to engineering school, I went to physics class. I said, 'Screw this, I don't want to be here. I'd much rather be at a club playing music.
As a kid, I was less interested in the physical tinkering than thinking about what we would now call the physics, as opposed to the engineering.
I think people are realizing that engineering and science are extremely good degrees to get and you'll be very highly paid once you've got them.
To strive consciously for an object and to engage in engineering -- that is, incessantly and eternally to make new roads, wherever they may lead.
I learned everything I knew about recording and engineering from my experience with Odd Future, so I was pretty comfortable with not having much.
I went to engineering school, I went to physics class. I said, 'Screw this, I don't want to be here. I'd much rather be at a club playing music.'
You could say that I had become possessed, in the classical sense, by the art of the great architects of the past. And that led me to engineering.
My private work is touched by this destiny of understanding that architecture and engineering have a social character and can serve the community.
You have the insanity that is geo-engineering which is a case in which you say the planet is heating up. Let's spray some aerosol and cool it down.
We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.
The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering-that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.
One should proceed with caution. We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.
Business ethics has always had problems that are distinct from those of other professions, such as medicine, law, engineering, dentistry, or nursing.
The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.
Most people don't realize that it's not just minorities who don't do well in science and engineering - quite frankly, you're talking about Americans.
McAfee's No. 1 strength is that they have a fantastic R&D team, engineering, as well as research at the core of security: database threat management.
The trick to having good ideas is not to sit around in glorious isolation and try to think big thoughts. The trick is to get more parts on the table.
There's nothing I believe in more strongly than getting young people interested in science and engineering, for a better tomorrow, for all humankind.
Engineering college students should be encouraged to start entrepreneurial ventures in their second year itself. It is safer to fail while in college.
Thirty percent of Americans have German blood in their family. I don't see any major difference in the engineering abilities of Americans and Germans.
In software engineering, we have the term 'technical debt.' When you don't do a job correctly, unaddressed problems become harder and harder to solve.
There's an old joke that you know you're in heaven if the cooks are Italian and the engineering is German. If it's the other way around you're in hell.
I reckon that the Bailey Bridge and the bulldozer were the greatest advances in military engineering in the years between World War I and World War II.
Real men study law and engineering, while ideas and values are for sissies. The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name.
I hope to continue to inspire our nation's youth to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and math so they, too, may reach for the stars.
Changes to weather patterns that move crop production areas around - we'll adapt to that. It's an engineering problem, and it has engineering solutions.
Indeed, the woes of Software Engineering are not due to lack of tools, or proper management, but largely due to lack of sufficient technical competence.
Law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
This is not the internet the world needs, or the internet its creators envisioned. We need to take it back. And by we, I mean the engineering community.
Introduced in the 1960s, multitasking is an engineering strategy for making computers more efficient. Human beings are the slowest elements in a system.
The question of engineering should be of interest not only to those of us who are engineers, but to the entire public which lives in an engineering world