Engineering Quotes - Adafruit Industries http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=quotes Quotes by and for engineers Sat, 26 Jan 2013 06:44:46 -0500 http://www.adafruit.com Engineering Quotes - Adafruit Industries http://www.adafruit.com/blog/adafruit.gif http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=quotes en hourly 1 <![CDATA[A hacker to me is someone creative who does wonderful things - Tim Berners-Lee]]> http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=quotes#73 Sat, 26 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0500 adafruit Tim Berners-Lee ]]> Tim Berners-Lee ]]> <![CDATA[If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry]]> http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=quotes#72 Tue, 22 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0500 adafruit Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ]]> Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ]]> <![CDATA[All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence - Martin Luther King, Jr.]]> http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=quotes#71 Sun, 20 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0500 adafruit Martin Luther King, Jr. ]]> Martin Luther King, Jr. ]]> <![CDATA[Don't fight forces, use them - R. Buckminster Fuller]]> http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=quotes#70 Wed, 16 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0500 adafruit R. Buckminster Fuller ]]> R. Buckminster Fuller ]]> <![CDATA[Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible - Edwin Land]]> http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=quotes#69 Wed, 03 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0400 adafruit Edwin Land ]]> Edwin Land ]]> <![CDATA[There’s nothing like watching the sunrise to the beats of the Robot Heart - Andrew "bunnie" Huang]]> http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=quotes#68 Sun, 09 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0400 adafruit Andrew "bunnie" Huang ]]> Andrew "bunnie" Huang ]]> <![CDATA[Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, existence is simply illusion - Fred Rogers]]> http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=quotes#67 Tue, 28 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0400 adafruit Fred Rogers ]]> Fred Rogers ]]> <![CDATA[Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a quality that decides between success and failure - Edsgar Dijkstra]]> http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=quotes#65 Thu, 23 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0400 adafruit Edsgar Dijkstra ]]> Edsgar Dijkstra ]]> <![CDATA[It is the fate of manufactured goods to slowly and gently depreciate as they get old... but it is the fate of operating systems to become free - Neal Stephenson]]> http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=quotes#66 Thu, 23 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0400 adafruit Neal Stephenson ]]> Neal Stephenson ]]> <![CDATA[To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time - Leonard Bernstein]]> http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=quotes#64 Wed, 04 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0400 adafruit Leonard Bernstein ]]> Leonard Bernstein ]]> <![CDATA[...the idea is to try to give all of the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another. - Richard Feynman]]> http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=quotes#63 Mon, 18 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0400 adafruit Richard Feynman ]]> Richard Feynman ]]> <![CDATA[Any path that narrows future possibilities may become a lethal trap - The Spacing Guild Handbook]]> http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=quotes#62 Sun, 22 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0400 adafruit The Spacing Guild Handbook ]]> The Spacing Guild Handbook ]]> <![CDATA[I think there's something strangely musical about noise - Trent Reznor]]> http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=quotes#59 Sun, 01 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0400 adafruit Trent Reznor ]]> Trent Reznor ]]> <![CDATA[It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well - Rene Descartes]]> http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=quotes#60 Sun, 01 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0400 adafruit Rene Descartes ]]> Rene Descartes ]]> <![CDATA[The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures - Charles Babbage]]> http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=quotes#61 Sun, 01 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0400 adafruit Charles Babbage ]]> Charles Babbage ]]> <![CDATA[Let the beauty of what you love be what you do - Rumi]]> http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=quotes#57 Mon, 05 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0500 adafruit Rumi ]]> Rumi ]]> <![CDATA[Collaborative production is simple: no one person can take credit for what gets created, and the project could not come into being without the participation of many - Clay Shirky]]> http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=quotes#58 Mon, 05 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0500 adafruit Clay Shirky ]]> Clay Shirky ]]> <![CDATA[A delayed game is eventually good, a bad game is bad forever - Shigeru Miyamoto]]> http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=quotes#56 Fri, 02 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0500 adafruit Shigeru Miyamoto ]]> Shigeru Miyamoto ]]> <![CDATA[I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you - Neil deGrasse Tyson]]> http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=quotes#55 Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0500 adafruit Neil deGrasse Tyson ]]> Neil deGrasse Tyson ]]> <![CDATA[Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted - Albert Einstein]]> http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=quotes#52 Tue, 28 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 adafruit Albert Einstein ]]> Albert Einstein ]]> <![CDATA[To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart - Thomas J. Watson]]> http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=quotes#53 Tue, 28 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 adafruit Thomas J. Watson ]]> Thomas J. Watson ]]> <![CDATA[Confusion and clutter are the failure of design, not the attributes of information - Edward Tufte]]> http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=quotes#54 Tue, 28 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 adafruit Edward Tufte ]]> Edward Tufte ]]> <![CDATA[A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist - R. Buckminster Fuller]]> http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=quotes#51 Mon, 27 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 adafruit R. Buckminster Fuller ]]> R. Buckminster Fuller ]]> <![CDATA[In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete - R. Buckminster Fuller]]> http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=quotes#49 Sun, 26 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 adafruit R. Buckminster Fuller ]]> R. Buckminster Fuller ]]> <![CDATA[You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing - René Descartes]]> http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=quotes#50 Sun, 26 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 adafruit René Descartes ]]> René Descartes ]]> <![CDATA[Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better - Edsger W. Dijkstra]]> http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=quotes#47 Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 adafruit Edsger W. Dijkstra ]]> Edsger W. Dijkstra ]]> <![CDATA[This is not the age of pamphleteers. It is the age of engineers. The spark-gap is mightier than the pen - Lancelot Hogben]]> http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=quotes#48 Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 adafruit Lancelot Hogben ]]> Lancelot Hogben ]]> <![CDATA[Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe - H. G. Wells]]> http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=quotes#46 Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 adafruit H. G. Wells ]]> H. G. Wells ]]> <![CDATA[Art is I; science is we - Claude Bernard]]> http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=quotes#43 Mon, 20 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 adafruit Claude Bernard ]]> Claude Bernard ]]> <![CDATA[He who receives an idea from me receives it without lessening me, as he who lights his candle at mine receives light without darkening me - Thomas Jefferson]]> http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=quotes#44 Mon, 20 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 adafruit Thomas Jefferson ]]> Thomas Jefferson ]]> <![CDATA[Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road - Stewart Brand]]> http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=quotes#45 Mon, 20 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 adafruit Stewart Brand ]]> Stewart Brand ]]> <![CDATA[I never am really satisfied that I understand anything; because, understand it well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand - Ada Lovelace]]> http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=quotes#42 Sat, 18 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 adafruit Ada Lovelace ]]> Ada Lovelace ]]> <![CDATA[People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware - Alan Kay]]> http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=quotes#41 Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 adafruit Alan Kay ]]> Alan Kay ]]> <![CDATA[The first 90 percent of the code accounts for the first 90 percent of the development time. The remaining 10 percent of the code accounts for the other 90 percent of the development time - Tom Cargill]]> http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=quotes#40 Sat, 03 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0500 adafruit Tom Cargill ]]> Tom Cargill ]]> <![CDATA[Fashion is what seems beautiful now but looks ugly later; art can be ugly at first but it becomes beautiful later - Unknown]]> http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=quotes#39 Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0400 adafruit Unknown ]]> Unknown ]]> <![CDATA[In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, in the expert’s mind there are few - Shunryu Suzuki]]> http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=quotes#38 Fri, 28 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0400 adafruit Shunryu Suzuki ]]> Shunryu Suzuki ]]> <![CDATA[We understand human mental processes only slightly better than a fish understands swimming - John McCarthy]]> http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=quotes#37 Tue, 25 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0400 adafruit John McCarthy ]]> John McCarthy ]]> <![CDATA[Let us stand on each other’s shoulders, not each other’s toes - Dennis Allison]]> http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=quotes#36 Sun, 28 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0400 adafruit Dennis Allison ]]> Dennis Allison ]]> <![CDATA[The best way to predict the future is to invent it - Alan Kay]]> http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=quotes#35 Thu, 25 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0400 adafruit Alan Kay ]]> Alan Kay ]]> <![CDATA[Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication - Leonardo da Vinci]]> http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=quotes#34 Sun, 07 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0400 adafruit Leonardo da Vinci ]]> Leonardo da Vinci ]]> <![CDATA[The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there - Gordon Bell]]> http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=quotes#33 Sat, 06 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0400 adafruit Gordon Bell ]]> Gordon Bell ]]> <![CDATA[A late game is only late until it ships. A bad game is bad until the end of time - Shigeru Miyamoto]]> http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=quotes#32 Fri, 05 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0400 adafruit Shigeru Miyamoto ]]> Shigeru Miyamoto ]]> <![CDATA[Perfect is the enemy of good - Voltaire]]> http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=quotes#31 Fri, 29 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0400 adafruit Voltaire ]]> Voltaire ]]> <![CDATA[The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle - Steve Jobs]]> http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=quotes#30 Sun, 17 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0400 adafruit Steve Jobs ]]> Steve Jobs ]]> <![CDATA[I'm an engineer. I see myself as a toolmaker and the musicians are my customers... They use my tools - Robert Moog ]]> http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=quotes#29 Mon, 04 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0400 adafruit Robert Moog ]]> Robert Moog ]]> <![CDATA[The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' - Isaac Asimov]]> http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=quotes#28 Fri, 01 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0400 adafruit Isaac Asimov ]]> Isaac Asimov ]]> <![CDATA[If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants - Isaac Newton]]> http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=quotes#26 Thu, 09 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0400 adafruit Isaac Newton ]]> Isaac Newton ]]> <![CDATA[When you make a thing, a thing that is new, it is so complicated making it that it is bound to be ugly. But those that make it after you, they don’t have to worry about making it. And they can make it pretty, and so everybody can like it when others make it after you - Pablo Picasso]]> http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=quotes#27 Thu, 09 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0400 adafruit Pablo Picasso ]]> Pablo Picasso ]]> <![CDATA[It's only "work" if you'd rather be doing something else - Dean Kamen]]> http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=quotes#25 Wed, 18 May 2011 00:00:00 -0400 adafruit Dean Kamen ]]> Dean Kamen ]]> <![CDATA[If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y plus Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut - Albert Einstein]]> http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=quotes#24 Fri, 13 May 2011 00:00:00 -0400 adafruit Albert Einstein ]]> Albert Einstein ]]> <![CDATA[The nice thing about standards is that you have so many to choose from; furthermore, if you do not like any of them, you can just wait for next year's model - Andrew S. Tanenbaum]]> http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=quotes#23 Thu, 12 May 2011 00:00:00 -0400 adafruit Andrew S. Tanenbaum ]]> Andrew S. Tanenbaum ]]> <![CDATA[Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently - Henry Ford]]> http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=quotes#21 Thu, 05 May 2011 00:00:00 -0400 adafruit Henry Ford ]]> Henry Ford ]]> <![CDATA[Do well by doing good - Benjamin Franklin]]> http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=quotes#22 Thu, 05 May 2011 00:00:00 -0400 adafruit Benjamin Franklin ]]> Benjamin Franklin ]]> <![CDATA[Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a quality that decides between success and failure - Edsger W. Dijkstra]]> http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=quotes#20 Wed, 04 May 2011 00:00:00 -0400 adafruit Edsger W. Dijkstra ]]> Edsger W. Dijkstra ]]> <![CDATA[The walls between art and engineering exist only in our minds - Theo Jansen]]> http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=quotes#19 Mon, 25 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0400 adafruit Theo Jansen ]]> Theo Jansen ]]> <![CDATA[Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do… The best way to predict the future is to invent it. Really smart people with reasonable funding can do just about anything that doesn't violate too many of Newton's Laws! - Alan Kay]]> http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=quotes#17 Sun, 24 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0400 adafruit Alan Kay ]]> Alan Kay ]]> <![CDATA[Hardware eventually fails. Software eventually works - Michael Hartung]]> http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=quotes#18 Sun, 24 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0400 adafruit Michael Hartung ]]> Michael Hartung ]]> <![CDATA[Improvement makes straight roads: but the crooked roads without Improvement are roads of Genius - William Blake]]> http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=quotes#16 Mon, 18 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0400 adafruit William Blake ]]> William Blake ]]> <![CDATA[Scientists investigate that which already is; engineers create that which has never been - Albert Einstein]]> http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=quotes#11 Fri, 15 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0400 adafruit Albert Einstein ]]> Albert Einstein ]]> <![CDATA[A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering - Freeman Dyson]]> http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=quotes#12 Fri, 15 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0400 adafruit Freeman Dyson ]]> Freeman Dyson ]]> <![CDATA[What I cannot create, I do not understand - Richard Feynman]]> http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=quotes#13 Fri, 15 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0400 adafruit Richard Feynman ]]> Richard Feynman ]]> <![CDATA[You can't see it if you don't look at it - Dan McKenna]]> http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=quotes#14 Fri, 15 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0400 adafruit Dan McKenna ]]> Dan McKenna ]]> <![CDATA[Calculation and reasoning, like weaving and ploughing, are work, not for human souls, but for clever combinations of iron and wood - Mary Boole]]> http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=quotes#15 Fri, 15 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0400 adafruit Mary Boole ]]> Mary Boole ]]> <![CDATA[Premature optimization is the root of all evil - Donald Knuth]]> http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=quotes#4 Thu, 14 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0400 adafruit Donald Knuth ]]> Donald Knuth ]]> <![CDATA[It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission - Grace Hopper]]> http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=quotes#10 Thu, 14 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0400 adafruit Grace Hopper ]]> Grace Hopper ]]> <![CDATA[We are what we celebrate - Dean Kamen]]> http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=quotes#2 Wed, 13 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0400 adafruit Dean Kamen ]]> Dean Kamen ]]> <![CDATA[I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success - Nikola Tesla]]> http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=quotes#3 Wed, 13 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0400 adafruit Nikola Tesla ]]> Nikola Tesla ]]>