Quote by William Shakespeare
For Tis the sport to have the engineer hoisted with his own petard

For Tis the sport to have the engineer hoisted with his own petard. – William Shakespeare

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If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me. – William Shakespeare

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Hedonic Engineering — The human nervous system studying and improving itself: intelligence studying and improving intelligence. Why be depressed, dumb, and agitated when you can be happy, smart, and tranquil? – Robert Wilson

To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing for 10 shillings what any fool can do for a pound – Duke of Wellington Arthur Wellesley

My advice is to look out for engineers. They begin with sewing machines and end up with nuclear bombs. – Marcel Pagnol

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The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it… Beware of me, it says, but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Loyalty in a free society depends upon the toleration of disloyalty. – Alan Barth, The Loyalty of Free Man, 1951

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Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him. – John Locke

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