值得细细品味的几句话——工程师

1  Engineers make things — and they make things better.

2 Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.

3 When addressing issues today  — especially those affecting the climate — it is not sufficient to take complex problems apart and merely investigate incremental improvements to their components.

4 "Impossible" is code word for "do it".

5 Engineering:"the art of directing the greate sources of power in nature for use and convenience of man".

6 he who loves practice without theory is like the sailer who boards ship without a rudder and a compass never knows where he may cast.

7 A sicentist discovers that which exists. An engieer create that which never was.

8 The interchange between invention and re-invention is at the very heart of what it means to be an engineer today.

9 The modern engieer must be at least two things:a creator of new ideas and new technologies and a re-inventor of those that are ... less new.

10 A good scientist is a person with original ideas.A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.

11 I love fool's experiments. I am always making them.

12 The world-enforced distinction between the practical and the scientific worker is utterly futile, and the whole experience of modern times has demostrated its utter worthlessness.

13 I'm quite into the idea of engineering being beautiful.