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

Quote by Scott Adams about problems

I played a lot of pool and went to the engineering bar where my brother was studying engineering. I was a real competent student, which is why I only lasted those six months in favour of a tap-dancing career.

Quote by Adam Garcia about opinion, students, career, real estate

When working on a motor vehicle engine, any tool dropped will land directly under the center of the engine.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about technology, tools

A crak is a small engine that causes revolutions

Quote by Sheehy Skeffington about opinion

Normal people... believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet.

Quote by Scott Adams about nation, faith, people

At the age of 13, I found in the attic a case filled with chemicals, remainders of an uncle who died in 1923 and was, as a metallurgical engineer, interested in chemistry and photography.

Quote by Richard Ernst about photography, age, olderness

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept...

Quote by Bill Gates about ignorance, fear, people, change, time

The primary function of the design engineer is to make things difficult for the fabricator and impossible for the serviceman.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about technology, impossible, things

A hardware failure will cause system software to crash, and the customer engineer will blame the programmer.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about computers, customers, failure

A system software crash will cause hardware to act strangely and the programmers will blame the customer engineer.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about computers, customers

The probability of a hardware failure disappearing is inversely proportional to the distance between the computer and the customer engineer.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about computers, customers, failure

The maintenance engineer will never have seen a model quite like yours before.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about computers

General Fault Errors are the “Check Engine” light of computers. If it can be fixed, chances are it's not by you.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about computers, chance, error, light, contentment

The short cuts are always under construction by the post engineers.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about truth

The car only breaks down at the least convenient time. When you car breaks down and it is a small repair, the mechanic has to remove the engine to get to that part.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about cars, time, contentment

You can't reach the tool dropped while working on a car engine, and it will be a non-magnetic alloy.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about tools, contentment

The engineering is secondary to the vision.

Quote by Cynthia Ozick about vision

The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long ways from that.

Quote by Larry Page about world, rightness, things, contentment

The ultimate search engine would understand exactly what you mean and give back exactly what you want.

Quote by Larry Page about contentment

Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty.

Quote by Ron Paul about politics, judges, liberty, marriage, people