Great triumphs of engineering genius-the locomotive, the truss bridge, the steel rail- ... are rather invention than engineering proper.

To define it rudely but not inaptly, engineering is the art of doing that well with one dollar which any bungler can do with two after a fashion.

When the difficulty of a problem lies only in finding out what follows from certain fixed premises, mathematical methods furnish invaluable wings for flying over intermediate obstructions.

An engineer can do for a dollar what any fool can do for two

He had learned Lesson One: Let French women tell you what they want.

When the author admits to Christians that he was not a Christian himself, he says their dialogue became "distant and rehearsed, like a pitch for Ginsu knives.

We want to make sure that we incentivize the health care system to be designed to provide you the best quality health care possible.

The difference being that in films, unlike in life, good does always win over evil in the end.

Travel is something that I like to do because it gives you lots of images, and it also really makes you think about your own place in the world in a very different way.

Don't let what other people think decide who you are.

Any coach worth his salt will take a look at that and say, 'I'll take my chances with that'

People that pick up hitchhikers I believe are basically good people that believe in other people and understand problems and don't judge people. That's always the kind of person I'm looking for.

... we must drive them [Jews] out like mad dogs, so that we do not become partakers of their abominable blasphemy and all the their other vices and thus merit God's wrath and be damned with them.

Sometimes the dead are more alive than the living. And they can kill the living.