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

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.

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

At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet.

Leadership is not the loudest roar that creates change it is the consistent whisper that challenges your fears and inspires your magnificence

Time is not waiting for you

A business of high principle attracts high-caliber people more easily, thereby gaining a basic competitive and profit edge.

I photographed Arthur Coble and his sons Milton and Darrel as they did chores, but the vicious winds made it difficult to see and breathe.

No one is black and white or good or bad or happy or sad or what have you. [All have] particular idiosyncrasies that make them fascinating and that's how I tend to approach a character.

The Framers were no more interested in binding future Americans to a set of divinely inspired commandments than any of us would wish to be bound by them.

There ain't no me if there ain't no you.

Hollywood is definitely now embracing a more natural approach to beauty. Staying "youthful-looking" is old news.