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Case studies of failure should be made a part of the vocabulary of every engineer so that he or she can recall or recite them when something in a new design or design process is suggestive of what went wrong in the case study.
Henry Petroski
Failure
Engineer
Made
Design
Every
Recite
Vocabulary
Case
Something
Studies
He
Part
He Or She
Wrong
Study
New
She
Process
Them
Should
Recall
Suggestive
For as long as I can remember, I have been fascinated by things large and small. I wanted to know what made my watch tick, my radio play, and my house stand. I wanted to know who invented the bottle cap and who designed the bridge. I guess from early on I wanted to be an engineer.
Henry Petroski
Remember
Engineer
Made
Long
Guess
Invented
Small
Bottle
Tick
Know
House
Been
Wanted
Cap
Stand
Who
Radio
Fascinated
Large
Bridge
Play
Things
Designed
Watch
Early
I was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on June 15, 1916. My father, an electrical engineer, had come to the United States in 1903 after earning his engineering diploma at the Technische Hochschule of Darmstadt, Germany.
Herbert A. Simon
Engineer
Father
Engineering
Earning
States
Diploma
Born
Had
Wisconsin
Come
His
Germany
June
After
Electrical
United
United States
Milwaukee
The engineer performs many public functions from which he gets only philosophical satisfactions. Most people do not know it, but he is an economic and social force.
Herbert Hoover
People
Engineer
Philosophical
Only
Economic
He
Performs
Know
Most
Force
Gets
Which
Public
Social
Many
Functions
For a long time I thought I should be a civil engineer. That seemed to be the only thing worth doing, and I chose the wrong subjects at A-level. I read all the sciences to start with, and then had to admit, 'This isn't what I want to do' and changed course.
Ian Hislop
Time
Worth
Engineer
Thought
Long
Long Time
Changed
Civil
Admit
Seemed
Only
Had
Wrong
Read
Course
Sciences
Doing
Subjects
Want
The Only Thing
Then
Should
Chose
Thing
Start
My mother was a housewife but she was also an artist. My father was an electrical engineer.
James Cameron
Mother
Engineer
Father
Also
She
Housewife
Artist
Electrical
As an engineer I'm constantly spotting problems and plotting how to solve them.
James Dyson
Problems
Engineer
Plotting
Solve
Constantly
How
Them
In 1988, before I'd written a word for a car magazine or stood in front of a camera, I was a subeditor on 'The Engineer.'
James May
Word
Engineer
Car
Before
Magazine
Written
Camera
Front
Stood
Before I became a game designer, I was a software engineer.
Jane Jensen
Game
Engineer
Before
Software
Became
Designer
My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's great readers.
Janet Fitch
Great
World
Engineer
Father
Journalist
Writer
He
Readers
Literary
I identify more as a musician than as a singer, because I play piano and percussion, and I engineer and produce everything that I do.
Janina Gavankar
Engineer
Everything
Musician
More
Percussion
Piano
Identify
Singer
Because
Than
Produce
Play
You don't need to be an engineer or a tech person to benefit from technology. You can hire them.
Jay Samit
You
Technology
Engineer
Benefit
Hire
Person
Them
Tech
Need
One of the ways a landfill engineer anywhere in the world earns bragging rights is if he can pour himself a glass of the leachate from his landfill and drink it.
Jeanne Marie Laskas
Rights
World
Engineer
Pour
Ways
Drink
He
Glass
Himself
His
Bragging
Anywhere
Landfill
When I went to school, it was to be an electrical engineer. I graduated with a degree in industrial management and worked in trucking for a couple of years. Then I decided that I was bored with the trucking industry and that I would go back to graduate school.
Jeryl Prescott
Management
School
Engineer
Degree
Back
Would
Bored
Industrial
Couple
Industry
Go
Years
Graduate
Graduate School
Graduated
Decided
Then
Worked
Electrical
I've gone down several paths. I started school as an engineer, but underneath it all, I knew I wanted to use instruments, not build them.
Jidenna
School
Engineer
Build
Gone
Down
Several
Knew
Instruments
Underneath
Paths
Wanted
Them
Use
Started
I thought I had everything going for me. I wasn't listening to nobody. And my dad was like, 'Uh-uh, you can't make money from music. You have to be a doctor, a lawyer, engineer. Something that's going to do something for this world. Music doesn't do anything.' And I had to fight that, his passion, and fight the society that I was from.
Jidenna
Music
Me
You
Fight
Doctor
World
Money
Passion
Listening
Engineer
Thought
Lawyer
Society
Everything
Something
Had
Nobody
Like
Make
His
Going
Anything
Dad
World Music
You sit there waiting for the RED LIGHT to go on. You could be sitting there for five minutes, waiting, while the producer talks to the engineer. Then the light goes on you know that you mustn't make a mistake for at least 4 minutes.
Jim Sullivan
You
Mistake
Waiting
Light
Engineer
Sit
Minutes
Could
Red
Red Light
Know
Make
Talks
Least
Go
Five
Goes
Sitting
While
Then
Producer
I learned everything about business and about music and stuff from being a second engineer.
Jimmy Iovine
Music
Business
Engineer
Everything
About
Stuff
Learned
Being
Second
My father was an engineer and my mother was a social worker, and they met as young socialists. That probably tells you everything you need to know about my attitude to money - I've never really been bothered about it.
Jo Brand
Attitude
You
Money
Mother
Engineer
Father
Met
Young
Everything
Tells
About
Bothered
Never
Know
Been
Social
Worker
Really
Socialists
Need
Women are very different to men, and that hasn't been respected. So when people say there's never been a good woman painter or poet or engineer or whatever, they don't understand that our skills are many simultaneously and men's skills are single.
Joanna Lumley
Good
Woman
Women
People
Engineer
Men
Poet
Single
Whatever
Our
Respected
Say
People Say
Never
Simultaneously
Understand
Been
Women Are
Very
Different
Skills
Painter
Many
I'll tell ya this: I come from an educated family. My father was an attorney representing blue collar workers, and my uncle was a chemical engineer... on my mom's side, all my uncles were engineers - all ten of them.
Joe Piscopo
Mom
Family
Engineer
Father
Uncle
Side
Collar
Tell
Ten
Uncles
Come
Attorney
Ya
Chemical
Educated
Were
Blue
Blue-Collar
Representing
Them
Workers
Engineers
My brother and I were born in an Irish county called Tipperary. We were both very math- and science-inclined in high school. My dad trained as an electrical engineer, and my mom is in microbiology.
John Collison
Mom
School
Engineer
High
Brother
Born
High School
Both
County
Were
Math
Very
Irish
Trained
Electrical
Dad
If you were a new guy at ILM, they put you on the night crew - my shift was from 7 P.M. to about 5 A.M. In my free time, I was working on an idea with my older brother, a software engineer getting his doctorate at the University of Michigan. Ultimately, it developed into Photoshop.
John Knoll
Time
You
Engineer
Free
Older
Crew
Software
Photoshop
Brother
About
Guy
Free Time
Developed
Put
Idea
New
Doctorate
Were
Shift
His
Ultimately
Michigan
Getting
Working
Older Brother
Night
University
I was one of the first practitioners of social engineering as a hacking technique, and today it is my only tool of use, aside from a smartphone - in a purely white hat sort of way. But if you don't trust me, then ask any reasonably competent social engineer.
John McAfee
Today
Me
You
Trust
Engineer
First
White
Engineering
Tool
Way
Hat
Purely
Only
Hacking
Sort
Trust Me
Any
Social
Aside
Ask
Then
Social Engineering
Use
Reasonably
Technique
Competent
I am very happily employed as a full-time software engineer; I travel a lot, and I write books along with this here weekly TechCrunch column; and I still find the time to work on my own software side projects.
Jon Evans
Work
Time
Travel
Engineer
Own
Software
Side
Books
Projects
Find
My Own
Weekly
Write
Column
Along
Employed
Am
Still
Lot
Very
Happily
Full-Time
Here
I was going to be a chemical engineer - I was a science nerd - that was the plan. I secretly applied to USC and NYU and got a scholarship to go to NYU based on a dumb animated short I made. It was a huge shock to me and my family.
Jon Watts
Family
Me
Science
Engineer
Made
Secretly
Nerd
Animated
Scholarship
Chemical
Got
Go
Dumb
Huge
Shock
Going
Short
Plan
USC
Based
NYU
Applied
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