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The Swedish engineer who invented the zip fastener made a greater intellectual leap than many scientists do in a lifetime.
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When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.
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Ticket
Still
Off
Jump
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Goes
Gets
Tunnel
Away
It's when children are 15, 16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor, an engineer, a politician or go to the Mars or moon. That is the time they start having a dream, and that's the time you can work on them. You can help them shape their dreams.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Work
Dreams
Time
You
Doctor
Engineer
Moon
Politician
Dream
Mars
Having
Shape
Go
Children
Want
Decide
Whether
Them
Help
Start
What my father gave me more than anything else is great tutoring and a great brain, frankly. You know, my father's brother was a top person at MIT, went to MIT, graduated from MIT, was a teacher at MIT, a professor at MIT, a great engineer. I mean, you know, I have very good genes.
Donald Trump
Teacher
Good
Great
Me
You
Engineer
Father
Gave
Else
Top
Frankly
Brother
More
More Than Anything
Genes
Know
MIT
Brain
Very
Than
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Graduated
Anything
Anything Else
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Professor
When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.
Herbert Hoover
Politics
War
Man
Construction
Doctor
Engineer
Job
Satisfied
Sick
General
Only
Uncommon
Get
Common
Want
Common Man
The writer is the engineer of the human soul.
Joseph Stalin
Soul
Engineer
Writer
Human
Human Soul
Failure is central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation. Successful engineering is all about understanding how things break or fail.
Henry Petroski
Failure
Engineer
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Understanding
Engineering
Every
About
Fail
Calculation
Makes
How
Break
Central
Successful
Things
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
Life
You
Engineer
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Engineering
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Out
Bored
Dirty
Schools
Make
Got
Stimulates
Offer
Fix
Get
Hands
Dismantle
Things
I usually describe myself as an engineer; that's basically what I've been doing since I was a kid.
Elon Musk
Myself
Engineer
Kid
Since
Doing
Been
Describe
Basically
Keep in mind that if you take a tour through a hospital and look at every machine with on and off switch that is brought into the service of diagnosing the human condition, that machine is based on principles of physics discovered by a physicist in a machine designed by an engineer.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Service
You
Physics
Engineer
Mind
Every
On And Off
Machine
Brought
Physicist
Through
Hospital
Take
Tour
Look
Principles
Condition
Discovered
Off
Human
Human Condition
Keep
Switch
Based
Designed
As you may know, I am a mechanical engineer.
Bill Nye
You
Engineer
Know
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May
Mechanical
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