"Engineering is too important to wait for science."

-- Benoit Mandelbrot

#Engineering Quotes #Waiting Quotes #Important Quotes

“Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.”
“Put yourself in the position of an up-and-coming artist living in early-sixteenth-century Italy. Now imagine trying to distinguish yourself from the other artists living in your town: Michelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo, or Titian. Is it any wonder that the Italian High Renaissance lasted only 30 years?”
“I believe that I am very lucky to have close friends who are faithful. From my friends, I have learned the importance of perseverance.”
“If you want a simple model for predicting the unemployment rate in the United States over the next few years, here it is: It will be what Greenspan wants it to be, plus or minus a random error reflecting the fact that he is not quite God.”
“America is especially sensitive to war weariness, and nothing brings backlash like the perception of defeat. I say â€œperceptionâ€ because America is a very all-or-nothing societyâ€¦ We like to know, and for everyone else to know, that our victory wasnâ€™t uncontested, it was positively devastating.”
“Everyone is gonna have a bad day, everyone is gonna have a bad game. The questions are: How do you recover? What builds your character? I decided one day early on in high school that I wanted to be great at basketball, not just a good basketball player.”
“Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.”

Source : T. S. Eliot (1986). “The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism: Studies in the Relation of Criticism to Poetry in England”, p.149, Harvard University Press
“God, give us the grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed.”

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