Every technological product has to be designed and its fabrication overseen, and this is what engineers DO.

Engineering is the art or science of making practical.

... it is clear that our survival and the salvaging of our environment are dependent on more technology, not less.

... the ancient joy of helping the tribe to survive is constantly rekindled in the engineer's heart.

We all have ambivalent feelings toward work ... We try to avoid it, and yet we seem to require it for our emotional well-being.

... engineering is a basic instinct in man, the expression of which is existentially fulfilling.

We recognize that we cannot survive on meditation, poems and sunsets. We are restless. We have an irresistible urge to dip our hands into the stuff of the earth and do something with it.

Knowledge gives a wider choice and more anguish.

There is scarcely a technical issue for which you cannot find expert witnesses of differing opinions.

... man cannot help but transcend himself as soon as he begins to design and construct.

The engineer's power was usually limited to a refusal to endorse a given plan, or to the tender of his resignation.

Love is an expression of power. We can use it to transform our world.

Who lies for you will lie against you.

The pygmies, for example, or the Mindoro of the Philippines, do not want equal rights – they just want to be left alone.

It's an unavoidable truth. Fear of life closes off more opportunities for us than fear of death ever does.

In the longest run of all, your life, you're going to be a winner.

Koko B. Ware … his mom’s first name was Tupper.

When I was fresh out of law school, I had a burning desire to do something important, to have an impact in some way, but I didn't know what it was.

I like being 30. I wouldn't want to do the twenties again. They are their own entity.

Passive resistance seeks to rejoin politics and religion and to test all our actions in the light of ethical principles.

Great men are little men expanded; great lives are ordinary lives intensified.