"Scientists study the world as it is, engineers create the world that never has been."

-- Theodore von Karman

#Engineering Quotes #World Quotes #Study Quotes

“It's the maritime equivalent of rock climbing.”
“Is imagination dependent upon experience, or is experience influenced by imagination?”

Source : Anita Shreve (2007). “A Wedding in December: A Novel”, Little, Brown
“I have now attained the true art of letter-writing, which we are always told, is to express on paper exactly what one would say to the same person by word of mouth.”
“Those who still believe the Brahmins should take a serious not of the changing times and start leading an awakened life.”

Source : Collected works of Periyar E.V.R., pp. 518-519, 2005.
“The thing about a good podcast is you have to have a good host. If you don't have a compelling host then you have nothing.”
“The first and probably most fundamental aspect of this crisis is that we are now close to the commodification of everything. That is, historical capitalism is in crisis precisely because, in pursuing the endless accumulation of capital, it is beginning to approximate that state of being Adam Smith asserted was 'natural' to man but which has never historically existed. The 'propensity [of humanity] to truck, barter, and exchange one thing for another' has entered into domains and zones previously untouched, and the pressure to expand commodification is relatively unchecked.”
“To watch an American on a beach or crowding into a subway, or buying a theater ticket, or sitting at home with his radio on, tells you something about one aspect of the American character: the capacity to withstand a great deal of outside interference, so to speak; a willing acceptance of frenzy which though it's never self-conscious, amounts o a willingness to let other people have and assert their own lively, and even offensive, character. They are a tough race in this.”

Source : "Letter from America, 1946-2004".
“I work in whatever medium likes me at the moment.”

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