Theoretical foundations for decision making in engineering design https://www.nap.edu/read/10566/chapter/2 (National Academy Press, 2001)
“Scientists and engineers changed the world.”
Regina E. Dugan (1963) American businesswoman, inventor, and technology developer
TED Talk, "From Mach-20 glider to Hummingbird Drone" (March 2012); also in Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness (2013) by Newton Lee
Grady Booch (1955) American software engineer
The computer scientist leaned back in her chair, smiled, and then said confidently, "Ah, but who do you think created the chaos?"
Source: Object-oriented design: With Applications, (1991), p. 2
Stephen Baxter book Evolution
Source: Evolution (2002), Chapter 16 “An Entangled Bank” section I (p. 513)
Tom Peters (1942) American writer on business management practices
18 April 2022
Tom Peters Daily, Weekly Quote
“The moment when the scientists became engineers was a historical turning point.”
Ivar Ekeland (1944) French mathematician
Source: The Best of All Possible Worlds (2006), Chapter 8, The End of Nature, p. 152.
“Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.”
James A. Michener book Space
Ch. 6 http://books.google.com/books?id=V1UQXxsQTskC&q=%22Scientists+dream+about+doing+great+things+Engineers+do+them%22&pg=PA378#v=onepage <br class="br">Space (1982)
Friedrich Bauer (1924–2015) German computer scientist
Bauer (1971) "Software Engineering." Information Processing: Proceedings of the IFIP Congress 1971, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia, August 23-28, 1971.
“What are the scientists to do next?”
Vannevar Bush book As We May Think
As We May Think (1945)
Context: This has not been a scientist's war; it has been a war in which all have had a part. The scientists, burying their old professional competition in the demand of a common cause, have shared greatly and learned much. It has been exhilarating to work in effective partnership. Now, for many, this appears to be approaching an end. What are the scientists to do next?
Freeman Dyson (1923) theoretical physicist and mathematician
Pt. 1, Ch. 10
Disturbing the Universe (1979)
“The secret of a Scientist is not what he knows. It’s what he asks.”
Stephen Baxter book Raft
Source: Raft (1991), Chapter 4 (p. 45)
