Theodore J. Hoover quotes

Theodore J. Hoover quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Engineering is the professional and systematic application of science to the efficient utilization of natural resources to produce wealth.”
-- Theodore J. Hoover

#Engineering Quotes #Systematic Quotes #Wealth Quotes

“I always say prepare to be a coach to anybody who wants to be a coach. At 24 years of age when I left engineering to become full time in football, I made sure that I was never going back to engineering.”
“The transition from the concept of information in the technical (communication engineering) sense to the semantic (theory of meaning) sense was indeed difficult, if not impossible.”

Source : "Readings in interpersonal & organizational communication" by Richard C. Huseman, (p. 35), 1977.
“The attempted professionalization of serious and systematic thinking has had a disastrous effect upon our culture”
“The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.”

Source : "The Tonight Show With Johnny Carson",
“Church tax exemption means that we all drop our money in the collection boxes, whether we go to church or not and whether we are interested in the church or not. It is systematic and complete robbery, from which none of us escapes.”
“I am not systematic at all when it comes to religion. I just love life. And I'm not judgmental. And I'm a vegetarian.”
“Mathematics has two faces: it is the rigorous science of Euclid, but it is also something else. Mathematics presented in the Euclidean way appears as a systematic, deductive science; but mathematics in the making appears as an experimental, inductive science. Both aspects are as old as the science of mathematics itself.”

Source : George Pólya (1945). “How to Solve it: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method”
“It's pretty easy to see that... wealth doesn't really equal happiness.”

Source : "Adam Yauch on Happiness: Part One". Interview with Randy Taran, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 10, 2012.
“Lack of wealth cannot take away genuine contentment.”
“What good is money if it can't buy happiness?”

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