Engineering Quotes

My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.

Eric Allin Cornell
- School
- Mother
- High
Social engineering has become about 75% of an average hacker's toolkit, and for the most successful hackers, it reaches 90% or more.

John McAfee
- Engineering

Information theory began as a bridge from mathematics to electrical engineering and from there to computing.

James Gleick
- Bridge
- Engineering
Our vision is to rediscover the spirit of the Renaissance, create a new discipline where engineering for cultural heritage is actually a symbol of blending art and science together.

Maurizio Seracini
- Art
- Together
- Science
Hey, if I had my choice for social engineering, I'd declare an automatic R-rating for any movie that depicts television commercials. There's a truly dangerous influence on our children.

Marshall Herskovitz
Even in such technical lines as engineering, about 15% of one's financial success is due one's technical knowledge and about 85% is due to skill in human engineering, to personality and the ability to lead people.

Dale Carnegie
- People
- Success
- Knowledge
After 14 years of running DonorsChoose.org as someone who had never written a line of code, I did do a three-month night school course. After all these years, I could at least speak some of the same vocabulary and have a first-hand appreciation for what my colleagues on the engineering team are doing.

Charles Best
- School
- Night
- Team
'Twenty Thousand Hertz' investigates the role of audio professionals in our daily lives, from the engineering that ensures a car door closes with that reassuring finality to the Foley artists of Hollywood who synthesise the sounds of marine life using old kitchen equipment gathered at the pound shop.

David Hepworth
- Life
- Car
- Door