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"The engineer is the key figure in the material progress of the world. It is his engineering that makes a reality of the potential value of science by translating scientific knowledge into tools, resources, energy and labor to bring them into the service of man ... To make contributions of this kind the engineer requires the imagination to visualize the needs of society and to appreciate what is possible as well as the technological and broad social age understanding to bring his vision to reality." »Sir Eric Ashby
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"I remember when I was in the army, we had the toughest drill sergeant in the world. He'd get right up next to your face and yell, and if you didn't have the right answers, mister, you'd be peeling potatoes or changing the latrine. Hey, wait. I wasn't in the army. Then who WAS that guy" »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"Before the Gulf War started, the Iraqi army was the the fourth largest in the world. Now, its the second largest army in Iraq." »Wall Street Journal, March 15, 1991
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"The World's most powerful army is the army of Medicine, as it is fighting against a real enemy, the most powerful one: The Death!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"An army of sheep led by a lion would defeat an army of lions led by a sheep." »Arab Proverb
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"You go to war with the army you have. They're not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time." »Donald Rumsfeld, http://www.dod.gov/transcripts/2004/tr20041208-secdef1761.html
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"The writer is the engineer of the human soul." »Joseph Stalin, Brainy Quote
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"For 'tis the sport to have the engineer Hoist with his own petard..." »William Shakespeare
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"I am more afriad of an army of 100 sheep lead by a lion than an army of 100 lions lead by a sheep." »Tallyrand
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"Between Napoleon and his army, always choose Napoleon; because He can create another army, but his army cannot create a Napoleon!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"I am going to Spain to fight an army without a general, and thence to the East to fight a general without an army." »Julius Caesar, (attributed)
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"A doctor can bury his mistakes but a supplier based engineer can only advise the product designer to specify a heavier texture." »Mick Lloyd Kerman
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"The ideal engineer is a composite ... He is not a scientist, he is not a mathematician, he is not a sociologist or a writer; but he may use the knowledge and techniques of any or all of these disciplines in solving engineering problems." »N. W. Dougherty, 1955
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"The ideal engineer is a composite ... He is not a scientist, he is not a mathematician, he is not a sociologist or a writer but he may use the knowledge and techniques of any or all of these disciplines in solving engineering problems." »N. W. Dougherty
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"Chief of the army." »Napoleon Bonaparte, last words, 1821
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"I don't know that I ever wanted greatness, on its own. It seems rather like wanting to be an engineer, rather than wanting to design something--or wanting to be a writer, rather than wanting to write. It should be a by-product, not a thing in itself. Otherwise, it's just an ego trip." »Roger Zelazny
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"An army marches on its stomach." »Napoleon Bonaparte
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"A language is a dialect with an army and a navy." »Max Weinreich
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"Tony Montana You think you can take me You need a f***ing army if you gonna take me" »Scarface
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"Skill and confidence are an unconquered army." »George Herbert
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"No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come." »Victor Hugo
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"Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army." »Edward Everett Hale
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"engineering is a great profession. There is the fascination of watching a figment of the imagination emerge through the aid of science to a plan on paper. Then it moves to realisation in stone or metal or energy. Then it brings homes to men or women. Then it elevates the standard of living and adds to the comforts of life. This is the engineer's high privilege." »Herbert Hoover
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"In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than to advance." »Joseph Stalin
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"The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose." »Henry Kissinger
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"The woman who is resolved to be respected can make herself be so even amidst an army of soldiers." »Cervantes
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"I think Google should be like a Swiss army knife: clean, simple, the tool you want to take everywhere." »Marissa Mayer
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"If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum." »Sir Arthur Eddington
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"The army of Truth is the real Invincible Armada. Truths are always destined to be victorious." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed." »Bill Vaughan
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