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Cats have no sense of humor, they have terribly inflated egos, and they are very touchy.
Hitting a cat is worse than useless; a cat can be disciplined only by patience, never by blows.
Engineering is the art of the practical and depends more on the total state of the art than it does on the individual engineer.
But he also used to say that a wise man should be prepared to abandon his baggage at any time.
borrowing money is like trying to swim with a brick in each hand...and a small loan is tougher to pay back than a million.
You don’t have any right to opinions on these things until you know something about them.”
it took more than a degree and a Scottish accent to make an engineer.
Moving parts are like the vermiform appendix; a source of trouble to be done away with whenever possible.
matter how many times you get your fingers burned, you have to trust people. Otherwise you are a hermit in a cave, sleeping with one eye open. There wasn’t any way to be safe; just being alive was deadly dangerous...fatal, in the end.
Despite the crepehangers, romanticists, and anti-intellectuals, the world steadily grows better because the human mind, applying itself to environment, makes it better. With hands...with tools...with horse sense and science and engineering.
