Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edsger Dijkstra

The required techniques of effective reasoning are pretty formal, but as long as programming is done by people that don't master them, the software crisis will remain with us and will be considered an incurable disease. And you know what incurable diseases do: they invite the quacks and charlatans in, who in this case take the form of Software Engineering gurus.

Atul Gawande

Checklists turn out...to be among the basic tools of the quality and productivity revolution in aviation, engineering, construction - in virtually every field combining high risk and complexity. Checklists seem lowly and simplistic, but they help fill in for the gaps in our brains and between our brains.

Alfred P. Sloan

Advanced engineering always, like advanced everything else, brings down upon it the discredit of ridicule of minds who cannot see so far.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

An engineer cannot participate in irrationality ...

Cynthia Ozick

The engineering is secondary to the vision.

Clifford Stoll

The first time you do something, it's science. The second time, it's engineering. The third time, it's just being a technician. I'm a scientist. Once I do something, I want to do something else.

Vandana Shiva

Genetic engineering has never been about saving the world, it's about controlling the world.

Dave Grohl

When you're young, you're not afraid of what comes next. You're excited by it.

David Whyte

For the personality, bankruptcy or failure may be a disaster. For the soul, it may be grist for its strangely joyful mill, and a condition it has been secretly engineering for years.

Jessie Ware

Good music shouldn't have a shelf life.

Jeff Jackson

Accessibility has been tough, and it has slowed getting parcels on the shelves for students.

Margaret Atwood

Potential has a shelf life.

Zora Neale Hurston

She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.

Chen Guangcheng

I'm just doing what my conscience asks me to do.

P. L. Travers

You can ask me anything you like about my work, but I'll never talk about myself.

Ozzy Osbourne

Don't ask me, I don't know

Hans Christian Andersen

Don't ask me how I am! I understand nothing more!

Heinrich Heine

Ask me not what I have, but what I am.

John Tortorella

Ask me a question. Don't say talk about it, ask me a question. I'm not going to talk about it if it isn't a question.

Richard Pryor

If you ask me about women's lib, I say I don't even know what that is.

Tom Felton

I'm not one generally to do that stuff anyway, and they didn't even ask me whether I'd seen the show [The Flash]. They didn't tell me anything about what I was going to play, they just inferred that there was going to be a lot of meat to sink my teeth into.