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

Engineering is the art or science of making practical.

... 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.

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.

The greatest of our virtues and the worst of our sins is wanting nothing less than more.

I was ashamed of myself for being ashamed of myself. I didn't like feeling like that.

My talk show takes place in bed, in Italy.

The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.

But if God had wanted us to think just with our wombs, why did He give us a brain?

I love my grey hair and wrinkles. I love the fact that my face has more of an edge and more character than it did when I was in my 20s and 30s. No Botox for me.

Women can really be who they are. I'm about to say the F word, feminist. Often that word has such a negative connotation.

For among other things he had been counseled to bring me to love knowledge and duty by my own choice, without forcing my will, and to educate my soul entirely through gentleness and freedom.

I'd like to thank the press from the heart of my bottom.

Rich people focus on what they want, while poor people focus on what they don't want.