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“As we are standing on a dazzling cliff, overwhelmed by a blizzard of unanswered questions, the alarming immaterialities of our living may cry out to us and our consciousness may ask us to account for what we are doing or for what we have not done. This may be the instant we might engineer our future with destiny. (
"Sisyphus on the hill")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“You say that you trust no one, but I don't believe you. You trust constantly - even when you don't realize it. At the intersection, you trust that the other drivers will stop when their traffic lights are red; you trust the architects and builders when you walk into a building, the engineers when hopping onto a roller coaster, the cook when you're eating the meal prepared for you. To some extent you trust countless strangers on a daily basis. Just as you would have an extremely tough time surviving in this world with a full trust in all people, you would have an extremely tough time surviving in this world without any trust for any people.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“Geeks are like male lions, they don't like the presence of another one in the vicinity.”
― Nipun Varma, Adventures of an Indian Techie

“India is the only country wherein the total number of engineers exceeds the number of vehicles on the road.”
― Nipun Varma, Adventures of an Indian Techie

“My mind is my sword.”
― Darran M. Handshaw, The Engineer

“Engineering is a profession that can do the job of almost all other professions.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“A petrol engine is sheer magic,â€� he said to me once. “Just imagine being able to take a thousand different bits of metal . . . and if you fit them all together in a certain way . . . and then if you feed them a little oil and petrol . . . and if you press a little switch . . . suddenly those bits of metal will all come to life . . . and they will purr and hum and roar . . . they will make the wheels of a motor-car go whizzing round at fantastic speeds . . .”
― Roald Dahl, Danny the Champion of the World

“An intelligent person can tell you how the house was built. A creative person can describe the inside of the house without having been inside.”
― Monaristw

“Instill within yourself the ability to generate passion in whatever you do, as this is the only driving force that will motivate you to achieve.

No one else can motivate you or make you successful. Ensure you have self-integrity and honour towards others set in a framework of guiding principles, and little tolerance for those who don’t.”
― Michael Howard

“Mother Nature is a self-taught engineer.”
― Stewart Stafford

“It costs 40 lacs to be a doctor, 30 lacs to be an MBA, 20 lacs to be a pilot, 10 lacs to be an engineer.

And just 0 to be a nice guy.”
― Nitya Prakash

“Developer is the one who creates bugs/defects mostly and working code rarely”
― Nipun Varma, Adventures of an Indian Techie

“Developers and testers usually maintain a very healthy India-Pakistan like camaraderie”
― Nipun Varma, Adventures of an Indian Techie

“Proof of concept or POC is the art of winning a ship-building contract by showing the working model of a paper boat”
― Nipun Varma, Adventures of an Indian Techie

“Electrical engineers Michael Faraday, Nikola Tesla and Steven Magee all developed mental illness.”
― Steven Magee

“As an engineer, I am chained to the Microsoft Windows operating system because most computer peripherals only come with Windows drivers.”
― Steven Magee

“As an experienced electrical engineer in the USA, I was earning in excess of $100,000 annual salary plus benefits. There was no incentive whatsoever to be disabled and in poverty on a corporate government disability program.”
― Steven Magee

“I enjoyed working with Keck Laser Engineer Robert Lafon during my night shifts. If I saw him today, I would ask him this question: Do you have any health conditions that you associate with working with 20 watt high powered LASER's and very high altitude work?”
― Steven Magee

“Magee’s Disease was discovered by Chartered Electrical Engineer Steven Magee as he used his biomedical training to work through an array of strange health conditions that showed up during and after his time in very high altitude astronomy atop the biologically toxic summit of Mauna Kea, Hawaii, USA.”
― Steven Magee

“Never lie to an engineer about their specialty, as they will know that you are lying to them.”
― Steven Magee

“Dreams? Yours are skewed versions of your everyday reality. Of Java, Oracle and servers, greasy subway trains and skyscrapers. You do fall off the precipice sometimes, naked, fly into three-dimensional turquoise oceans. At times you see pixels around you. Sperms. Electrons and black holes, the matrix, 0’s and 1’s, polarised light.”
― Sindhu Rajasekaran, So I Let It Be

“I am an electrician extraordinaire.”
― Steven Magee

“The leading research on High Altitude Observatory Diseases (HAOD) is coming out of the USA from a British Chartered Engineer.”
― Steven Magee

“Do not manipulate! A good engineer always focus on analysis of root causes.”
― Bhupesh B. Patil

“The day we start reading nature, the animals, the trees, the birds, and the ones that live in the water. We would understand divine engineering within them and when we would wonder about what has been kept in them we would then wonder about ourselves too and start thinking about ourselves and gets to know the truth about us, our reality, and why we are here for. We would then be knowing wonders within and know the engineer that sits within all of us. That's the start of spirituality the one who knows thyself knows thy god.”
― Aiyaz Uddin, The Inward Journey

“Most squads are cross-functional, consisting of engineers and marketers, collaborating as a single team with a shared understanding of customer value.”
― Nicole Forsgren, Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations

“Out here in the ruins one might find the answers to everything.”
― Darran M. Handshaw, The Engineer

“The architects have left us clues below â€� such that we may one day be able to comprehend, it is my hope. But the answers, I fear... the answers lie in death... It is up to us to make sure that we do not find such a cruel solution to our lives.”
― Darran M. Handshaw, The Engineer

“First, you can assume all the engineers are players. They obviously have technical knowledge they may throw on the table, otherwise why were they invited? The product-management person is also a player as she represents the sales folks in this meeting. Program managers in these meetings are pawns. They’ll make sure action items are recorded and that the meeting ends on time.”
― Michael Lopp, Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager

“The Wolf. The single most productive engineer you’ll meet. You’ve heard of the 10x engineer, but I am here to tell you about the Wolf. They are engineers, and they consistently exhibit the following characteristics: They appear to exist outside of the well-defined process that we’ve defined to get things done, but they appear to suffer no consequences for not following these rules. Everyone knows they’re the Wolf, but no one ever calls them the Wolf. They have a manager, but no one really knows who it is. They have a lot of meetings, but none of them are scheduled. Inviting them to your meeting is a crap shoot. They understand how “the systemâ€� works, they understand how to use “the systemâ€� to their advantage, and they understand why “the systemâ€� exists, but they think “the systemâ€� is a bit of a joke. You can ask a Wolf to become a manager, but they’ll resist it. If you happen to convince them to do it, they will do a fine job, but they won’t stay in that role long. In fact, they’ll likely quit managing when you least expect it. Lastly, and most importantly, the Wolf generates disproportionate value for the company with their unparalleled ability to identify and rapidly work on projects essential to the future of the company.”
― Michael Lopp, Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager