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Take the best that exists and make it better.Collection: Engineering
Shipping first time code is like going into debt. A little debt speeds development so long as it is paid back promptly with a rewrite. The danger occurs when the debt is not repaid. Every minute spent on not-quite-right code counts as interest on that debt. Entire engineering organizations can be brought to a standstill under the debt load of an unconsolidated implementation, object-oriented or otherwise.Collection: Engineering
I would staple a green card to the diploma of anyone that graduates with a degree in the physical sciences or engineering in the U.S.Collection: Engineering
Software engineering is not about right and wrong but only better and worseCollection: Engineering
I've always written. I'm from an older generation of programmers [who] did not come out of engineering. [A]ll sorts of people were drawn in from the social sciences and humanities.Collection: Engineering
Bold objects require conservative engineering.Collection: Engineering
When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.Collection: Engineering
Checklists turn out...to be among the basic tools of the quality and productivity revolution in aviation, engineering, construction - in virtually every field combining high risk and complexity. Checklists seem lowly and simplistic, but they help fill in for the gaps in our brains and between our brains.Collection: Engineering
Code reuse is the Holy Grail of Software Engineering.Collection: Engineering
Inventing is the resolution of technical contradictions.Collection: Engineering
I see nothing wrong ethically with the idea of correcting single gene defects through genetic engineering. But I am concerned about any other kind of intervention, for anything else would be an experiment, which would impose our will on future generations and take unreasonable chances with their welfare ... Thus such intervention is beyond the scope of consideration.Collection: Engineering
Audiophiles don't use their equipment to listen to your music. Audiophiles use your music to listen to their equipment.Collection: Engineering
No matter that astronauts and cosmonauts had perished in precisely designed and carefully tested machines. Solid engineering could always provide a safety margin, because the engineers believed, there was complete safety in numbers.Collection: Engineering
The fact is that humans have been shaping the genetics of what they eat for thousands of years. Genetic engineering simply speeds up the process that used to take generations. Preventing people from getting things like golden rice or disease-resistant cassava destroys human life, and does not spare the environment in any way.Collection: Engineering
The question of engineering should be of interest not only to those of us who are engineers, but to the entire public which lives in an engineering worldCollection: Engineering
One of the great inventions of the twentieth century was the studied, methodical engineering of myth for political ends.Collection: Engineering
The switch from 'steam engines' to 'heat engines' signals the transition from engineering practice to theoretical science.Collection: Engineering
I would say that the evocative qualities of music are usually put there in post-production in the reverb. It's really not much about the musicians as the engineering. It's post-production that's being done by the musician at the time.Collection: Engineering
Those with engineering skills will build tomorrow's genius computers. But those with the ability to create knowledge of any kind will be the ones who are best able to extract great value from them. The way to create value in the age of genius machines will be to compile and disseminate knowledge that other people will find useful.Collection: Engineering
Death is an engineering problem.Collection: Engineering
As a young designer explained to me bluntly: "Everyone upstairs is dumb," referring to the floor above the engineering lair at the 156 University office where customer support, administrators and salespeople sat. My first impulse was to laugh at his ridiculous, blithe dismissiveness, until I realized that it wasn't very funny.Collection: Engineering
Engineering is too important to wait for science.Collection: Engineering
I studied engineering at MIT. There, the late, great physicist Philip Morrison introduced me to the idea that, in any system, there exists the inevitability that an event will occur which is completely unrelated to anything that preceded it. It completely changed my perception of "impossible."Collection: Engineering
Biotech and geo engineering have the same mindset, of engineering, of power, of control, of mastery of nature.Collection: Engineering
Aggression, like every other part of human behavior we take for granted, is a challenging engineering problem!Collection: Engineering
Engineering isn't about perfect solutions; it's about doing the best you can with limited resources.Collection: Engineering
There are fields of scientific work...which have been explored from the different sides of pure mathematics, statistics, electrical engineering, and neurophysiology...in which every single notion receives a separate and different name from each group, and in which important work has been triplicated or quadruplicated, while still other important work is delayed by the unavailability in one field of results that may have already become classical in the next field.Collection: Engineering
It seems to be saying perpetually; 'I am the end of the nineteenth century; I am glad they built me of iron; let me rust.' ... It is like a passing fool in a crowd of the University, a buffoon in the hall; for all the things in Paris has made, it alone has neither wits nor soul.Collection: Engineering
First rule of engineering; beware prototypes. Along with, avoid anything made by an engineer who doesn't have all his own fingers.Collection: Engineering
Writers acquire their technique by spotting, savoring, and reverse-engineering examples of good prose.Collection: Engineering
The Mississippi River will always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise.Collection: Engineering
The idea of engineering is an idea of mastery. And today the role that we are being asked to play is a role based on informed humanity.Collection: Engineering
I have always made a point in my romances of basing my so-called inventions upon a groundwork of actual fact, and of using in their construction methods and materials which are not entirely without the pale of contemporary engineering skill and knowledge.Collection: Engineering
If you start from a belief that the most knowledgeable person on earth does not have even one percent of the total knowledge on earth, that shoots down social engineering, economic central planning, judicial activism, and innumerable other ambitious notions favored by the political left.Collection: Engineering
Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.Collection: Engineering
What need the bridge much broader than the flood?Collection: Engineering
George Washington was quite a farmer. He was a farmer, Civil Engineer and gentleman. He made enough at civil engineering to indulge in both the other luxuries.Collection: Engineering
For the personality, bankruptcy or failure may be a disaster. For the soul, it may be grist for its strangely joyful mill, and a condition it has been secretly engineering for years.Collection: Engineering
An engineer cannot participate in irrationality.Collection: Engineering
The most important thing is to keep trying...Collection: Engineering
Anyone with an engineering frame of mind will look at [accounting standards] and want to throw up.Collection: Engineering
A system needs to be alive and workable even when other people than the first enthusiasts start using it. Reinvention and revolution are enthusiast stuff. Invention and evolution are engineering.Collection: Engineering
The first step toward the management of disease was replacement of demon theories and humours theories by the germ theory. That very step, the beginning of hope, in itself dashed all hopes of magical solutions. It told workers that progress would be made stepwise, at great effort, and that a persistent, unremitting care would have to be paid to a discipline of cleanliness. So it is with software engineering today.Collection: Engineering
Bear in mind that we [ with Edward Herman] did not devise the terms "manufacture of consent" and "engineering of consent." We borrowed them from leading figures in the media, public relations industry, and academic scholarship.Collection: Engineering
In engineering, people have a big margin of safety. But in the financial world, people don't give a damn about safety. They let it balloon and balloon and balloon. It's aided by false accounting.Collection: Engineering
It's an ancient and honorable term for the final step in any engineering project. Turn it on, see if it smokes.Collection: Engineering
Inadequate use of usability engineering methods in software development projects have been estimated to cost the US economy about $30 billion per year in lost productivity.Collection: Engineering
With the advent of genetic engineering the time required for the evolution of new species may literally collapse.Collection: Engineering
The present Luddism over genetic engineering may die a natural death as the computer-illiterate generation is superseded.... I fear that, if the green movement's high-amplitude warnings over GMOs turn out to be empty, people will be dangerously disinclined to listen to other and more serious warnings.Collection: Engineering