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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, career, real estate

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, 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

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, 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

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, failure

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

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about computers

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

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about police

The engineering is secondary to the vision.

Quote by Cynthia Ozick about vision

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

I enrolled in the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, now Polytechnic University, and began studying chemical engineering.

Quote by Martin Lewis Perl about education

The writer is the engineer of the human soul.

Quote by Iosif Vissarionovici Stalin about literature, writers, soul, human imperfections