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Engineering is a great profession. There is the fascination of watching a figment of the imagination emerge through the aid of science to a plan on paper. Then it moves to realisation in stone or metal or energy. Then it brings homes to men or women. Then it elevates the standard of living and adds to the comforts of life. This is the engineer's high privilege.

– Herbert HooverRate it:

Engineering is a predictive science, not a manipulative art.

– D. Elton TruebloodRate it:

Engineering is an activity other than purely manual and physical work which brings about the utilization of the materials and laws of nature for the good of humanity.

– R. E. HellmundRate it:

Engineering is not merely knowing and being knowledgeable, like a walking encyclopedia engineering is not merely analysis engineering is not merely the possession of the capacity to get elegant solutions to non-existent engineering problems engineering is practicing the art of the organized forcing of technological change... Engineers operate at the interface between science and society...

– Dean Gordon BrownRate it:

Engineering is not merely knowing and being knowledgeable, like a walking encyclopedia; engineering is not merely analysis; engineering is not merely the possession of the capacity to get elegant solutions to non-existent engineering problems; engineering is practicing the art of the organized forcing of technological change... Engineers operate at the interface between science and society...

– Dean Gordon BrownRate it:

Engineering is the art of organizing and directing men and controlling the forces and materials of nature for the benefit of the human race.

– Henry G. StottRate it:

Engineering is the art or science of making practical.

– Samuel C. FlormanRate it:

Engineering is the practice of safe and economic application of the scientific laws governing the forces and materials of nature by means of organization, design and construction, for the general benefit of mankind.

– S. E. LindsayRate it:

Engineering is the professional and systematic application of science to the efficient utilization of natural resources to produce wealth.

– T. J. HooverRate it:

Engineering is the professional art of applying science to the optimum conversion of natural resources to the benefit of man.

– Ralph J. SmithRate it:

Engineering is the science of economy, of conserving the energy, kinetic and potential, provided and stored up by nature for the use of man. It is the business of engineering to utilize this energy to the best advantage, so that there may be the least possible waste.

– William A. SmithRate it:

Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.

– Cory Doctorow, Eastern Standard Tribe, 2004Rate it:

Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.

– Scott AdamsRate it:

Engineers participate in the activities which make the resources of nature available in a form beneficial to man and provide systems which will perform optimally and economically.

– L. M. K. BoelterRate it:

England and America are two countries separated by a common language.

– George Bernard ShawRate it:

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

– George Bernard ShawRate it:

England expects that every man will do his duty.

– Lord NelsonRate it:

England has forty-two religions and only two sauces.

– VoltaireRate it:

England is my city

– Nick CromptonRate it:

England is paradise for women, and hell for horses: Italy is a paradise for horses, hell for women.

– Robert BurtonRate it:

England is the first country that I've had a no. 1 album in, so it is now officially my home away from home.

– Justin TimberlakeRate it:

England produces the best fat actors.

– Jimmy CannonRate it:

England won her territories not by wars or armies, but by trade and commerce. China is following in the same footsteps.

– Mwanandeke KindemboRate it:

English has become the language of business, hence its popularity. I guess the French have nothing to offer, instead they exploit their friends on a daily basis.

– Mwanandeke KindemboRate it:

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