Henry R. Towne famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The monogram of our national initials, which is the symbol for our monetary unit, the dollar, is almost as frequently conjoined to the figures of an engineer's calculations as are the symbols indicating feet, minutes, pounds, or gallons. ... This statement, while true in regard to the work of all engineers, applies particularly to that of the mechanical engineer...
-- Henry R. Towne

#Feet #Pounds #Dollars
The Engineer is one who, in the world of physics and applied sciences, begets new things, or adapts old things to new and better uses; above all, one who, in that field, attains new results in the best way and at lowest cost.
-- Henry R. Towne

#Science #Old Things #Cost
He who designs an unsafe structure or an inoperative machine is a bad Engineer; he who designs them so that they are safe and operative, but needlessly expensive, is a poor Engineer, and … he who does the best work at the lowest cost sooner or later stands at the top of his profession.
-- Henry R. Towne

#Work #Design #Doe
The dollar is the final term in almost every equation which arises in the practice of engineering in any or all of its branches, except qualifiedly as to military and naval engineering, where in some cases cost may be ignored.
-- Henry R. Towne

#Military #Engineering #Practice
A railroad may have to be carried over a gorge or arroya. Obviously it does not need an Engineer to point out that this may be done by filling the chasm with earth, but only a Bridge Engineer is competent to determine whether it is cheaper to do this or to bridge it, and to design the bridge which will safely and most cheaply serve.
-- Henry R. Towne

#Bridges #Design #Doe

I sought them far and found them, The sure, the straight, the brave, The hearts I lost my own to, The souls I could not save They braced their belts about them, They crossed in ships the sea, They sought and found six feet of ground, And there they died for me.
an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.
Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.
Few are aware that they want any thing, except pounds schillings and pence.
The joke in aviation is, 'If you want to make a million, you'd better start with £10m.'
I was in the Pritikin Center in Santa Monica once, trying to lose 30 or 40 pounds in a month. I'd work... on a treadmill and with the weights, but it was driving me nuts. So I escaped. Tom Arnold picked me up and we went to Le Dome and had tons of desserts.
I went from 220 pounds that I cut down for 'Moneyball' to almost 270-280 pounds for 'Ten Year.'
It's harder than you might think to squander millions of dollars, but a flawed software development process is a tool well suited to the job.
When you only have a million dollar annual budget and a Super Bowl ad costs $4 million, you have to do something very creative to get onto the Super Bowl.
If John Kerry had a dollar for every time he bragged about serving in Vietnam - oh wait, he does.

Henry R. Towne famous quotes

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