There is scarcely a technical issue for which you cannot find expert witnesses of differing opinions.

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.

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.

Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.

Archetypes are the mirror images of our never to be seen self

You cannot shame or belittle people into changing their behaviors.

When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

I initially felt shy about doing painting because I wasn't a professional painter. I almost felt like I didn't deserve to paint. But I have gradually adopted a different kind of attitude about this.

Virtue would not make such advances if there were not a little vanity to keep it company.

Love is the terrible secret people are suspected of unless they're married, then one always suspects they don't.

The first piano was built long after they didn't have any at all.

Well, I think the camera freedom is something that we've resisted for a long time and feels like probably the biggest stretch. But it has some huge benefits.

But it pleased God to visit us then with death daily, and with so general a disease that the living were scarce able to bury the dead.