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"Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process."
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"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 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."
"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 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."
"The desire to engineer humanity is a sign of a mind warped by megalomania and lust for power."
"Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process."
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"With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption."
"No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems."
"The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the arts."
"We find Japan a little more difficult to understand because it has proven its 20th century prowess though the ancient traditions still persist."
"The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers."
"The obsession with performance left no room for the development of the intuitive or spiritual impact of space and form other than the aesthetic of the machine itself."
"God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the self-made men, who take the credit."
"There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization."
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