Robert Zubrin Quotes

When people have their own money at stake, it's a lot easier to find and settle on practical, no-nonsense solutions to engineering problems than is ever the case in the complex and endless deliberations of a government bureaucracy.

Robert Zubrin

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• I've never been married and I've no more desire to be married now than I ever have. I hate bureaucracy and I am not religious.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Desire
  • Religious
  • Married

• People like to pigeonhole you. It's easier.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • You
  • Easier

• I seek solutions, not battles.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Solutions
  • Seek
  • Battles

• It's surreal to think that I own this beautiful island. It doesn't feel like anyone can own Lanai. What it feels like to me is this really cool 21st-century engineering project, where I get to work with the people of Lanai to create a prosperous and sustainable Eden in the Pacific.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • People
  • Work
  • Beautiful

• It's easier to release an ebook than a print book.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Book
  • Easier
  • Print

• While I was at Cornell in engineering, I was an engineering co-op student, and that turned out to be very valuable because we'd go out every other term to work in industry and have that close association with industry.

  

  Irwin M. Jacobs
  • Work
  • Engineering
  • Student

• Transhumanism is the ethics and science of using things like biological and genetic engineering to transform our bodies and make us a more powerful species.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Science
  • Powerful
  • Engineering

• I went to school at night in L.A. to brush up on my engineering while I applied to the astronaut program. I really did not know if I would get in. It was the year after the Challenger accident in 1987.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Up
  • School
  • Night

• 'Social engineering,' the fancy term for tricking you into giving away your digital secrets, is at least as great a threat as spooky technology.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Great
  • Giving
  • Technology

• Despite the never-ending debate on the question of the role of government in America, there's been a strong tradition of protecting our undisputed, important natural treasures or taking on great common engineering challenges.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Great
  • Important
  • America

• It's so much easier to throw rocks than it is to govern.

  

  Karen Bass
  • Easier
  • Rocks
  • Throw

• I think a craft becomes an art form when the space of possible solutions becomes so huge that engineering can't carry you through.

  

  Bill Budge
  • Art
  • Space
  • Engineering

• As a college freshman with an on-campus job, I was delivering paperwork to the engineering department one day. There, I encountered two department assistants whose faces lit up with the hope that I was a prospective student. I hadn't come there to enroll, but their reactions piqued my interest.

  

  Peggy Johnson
  • Up
  • Job
  • Hope

• Don't ask me to put up a shelf, but I love engineering.

  

  Bruce Dickinson Iron Maiden
  • Up
  • Engineering

• Social engineering is using manipulation, influence and deception to get a person, a trusted insider within an organization, to comply with a request, and the request is usually to release information or to perform some sort of action item that benefits that attacker.

  

  Kevin Mitnick
  • Action
  • Organization
  • Engineering

• If you want to work in engineering and to have an impact that's global, come work in the aerospace sector.

  

  Dennis Muilenburg
  • Work
  • Engineering

• I know how tough engineering school can really be, but it's worth it.

  

  Brian Krzanich
  • School
  • Engineering

• A report released by the Partnership for a New American Economy and the Partnership for New York City predicts that by 2018, there will be 800,000 science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) jobs in the United States that require a master's degree or higher - and only around 550,000 American-graduates with this training.

  

  Marvin Ammori
  • American
  • Science
  • City

• The greatest car ever should get out there and do the job, but it should do more besides, which is why I have to say it's the Ferrari 355. This car is as much a piece of sculpture as a lump of engineering. You could derive as much pleasure from putting it in your living room, where the piano used to be, and looking at it as you could from going for a drive.

  

  Jeremy Clarkson
  • Why
  • Job
  • Car

• During my engineering days, I learnt to value diversity, not to take shortcuts in life.

  

  Rajeev Suri
  • Diversity
  • Engineering
  • Shortcuts

• Observe that it is a great error to believe that all mediums of art are not closely tied to their time.

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • Time
  • Great
  • Believe

• Genes don't mean necessarily that you have got a certain strand of gene that makes you particularly acceptable as a public official.

  

  Kenneth Langone

• War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.

  

  Bill Moyers
  • War
  • Imagination
  • Moral

• When people have their own money at stake, it's a lot easier to find and settle on practical, no-nonsense solutions to engineering problems than is ever the case in the complex and endless deliberations of a government bureaucracy.

  

  Robert Zubrin
  • Engineering
  • Solutions
  • Easier