Knowledge gives a wider choice and more anguish.

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.

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

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

... 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.

We have fangirl shorthand.

Reading books in one's youth is like looking at the moon through a crevice

There is no work-life balance. We have one life. What's most important is that you be awake for it.

My mom always makes the whole family pile into the car and drive around to look at the Christmas lights. My brother and I never want to do it, but my mom just loves it!

Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.

Some men, like a wet dog, sprinkle a shower of advice over you when you are least prepared for a bath.

I like the whole laid-back rapping. I wish I could rap! I wish I could wrap like Azealia Banks or Lil Wayne or someone like that.

A movement that seeks to advance only its own members is going to accomplish little

The air of summer was sweeter than wine.

He who doubts from what he sees Will ne'er believe, do what you please.