Definition of Engineering

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Engineering

of Engineer

Originally, the art of managing engines; in its modern and extended sense, the art and science by which the mechanical properties of matter are made useful to man in structures and machines; the occupation and work of an engineer.

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Engineering Quotations

The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.
Leonardo da Vinci

Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty.
Ron Paul

One man's "magic" is another man's engineering. "Supernatural" is a null word.
Robert A. Heinlein

There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.
H. G. Wells

With the advent of genetic engineering the time required for the evolution of new species may literally collapse.
Dee Hock

Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.
Ross Perot

I worked with such concentration and focus and I had hundreds of obscure engineering or programming things in my head. I was just real exceptional in that way.
Steve Wozniak

Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
Karl Popper

I think through education, belief in God, and good engineering, our children become a lot better at what they're doing than we did, and that starts with the very first sign of life on the face of this earth.
Evel Knievel

The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large.
Tim Berners-Lee

Engineering Translations

engineering in French is etudes, manigance
engineering in German is technisch, Maschinenbau, Technik, Ingenieurwesen
engineering in Swedish is teknik

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