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"I didn't write because in the corps I took mining engineering of all things and, you know, they, they graduate a mining engineer as a sort of an illiterate."
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"The desire to engineer humanity is a sign of a mind warped by megalomania and lust for power."

"I was in school studying civil engineering. A guy approached me on the street and said that I had a interesting look-very exotic. He told me I should try to be in the industry."

"Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process."

"From here, it becomes an engineering problem; the engineer considers the ground motion that will occur and evaluates the requirements of the proposed structure in the light of the local foundation conditions."

"I do understand why a desperate engineer still use a hammerto solve a hard problem. I think, that made him more humane."

"I suspect any worries about genetic engineering may be unnecessary. Genetic mutations have always happened naturally, anyway."

"I didn't write because in the corps I took mining engineering of all things and, you know, they, they graduate a mining engineer as a sort of an illiterate."
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"And I, uh, I wonder how anybody can think his personality changes with his success. I've had quite a bit of success but I feel that I'm just the same person as I always was."


"I didn't have any real art training, but when I was about twelve nad thirteen, another boy and I went to a sign painter's house every Friday night and took lessons."


"Yeah, yeah. I, I don't think I'm always right. But I don't think young people are always right, either."


"I, I don't think anybody's continually happy, uh, except idiots, you know. You know, you have to have little moments of depression."


"Uh, I just had an operation last March which was rather serious and I'm recuperating now. I'm on a very bland diet. But, uh, I'm lucky, I was just lucky, that's all."


"And, uh, I did that, and there was nothing more ridiculous to me than finding the weight of the earth because I didn't care how much the earth weighed."
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