You may be an engineer if your idea of good interpersonal communication means getting the decimal point in the right place. – Author Unknown

The cowboys have a way of trussing up a steer or a pugnacious bronco which fixes the brute so that it can neither move nor think. This is the hog-tie, and it is what Euclid did to geometry. – Eric Bell, The Search for Truth

But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched with the same madness and genius. – Harold Marston Morse