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

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.

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

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

You don't know what cold is until you've experienced the cold you feel when the blood is draining out of your body.

You can do what you will, but in any given moment of your life you can will only one definite thing and absolutely nothing other than that one thing.

I come to spring training and just try to do my job, try to do the best I can. That's all any player can do.

Time and circumstances change us...and it is pointless to ask why.

This is motherhood for you,' said my own mother. 'Going through life with your heart outside your body.

I insist on a Steinway for my recordings, my concerts and my home. It is the only piano I want to hear my music played on.

When people have a sense of our military capability, nobody will ever dare to cast an evil eye on our nation.

Press releases tell us when federal agencies do something right, but the Freedom of Information Act lets us know when they do not.

Some people should never meet.