Henry R. Towne quotes
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“The monogram of our national initials, which is the symbol for our monetary unit, the dollar, is almost as frequently conjoined to the figures of an engineer's calculations as are the symbols indicating feet, minutes, pounds, or gallons. ... This statement, while true in regard to the work of all engineers, applies particularly to that of the mechanical engineer...”
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“The Engineer is one who, in the world of physics and applied sciences, begets new things, or adapts old things to new and better uses; above all, one who, in that field, attains new results in the best way and at lowest cost.”
-- Henry R. TowneSource : "Industrial Engineering : An Address Delivered" by Henry R. Towne, www.stamfordhistory.org. February 24th, 1905.
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“He who designs an unsafe structure or an inoperative machine is a bad Engineer; he who designs them so that they are safe and operative, but needlessly expensive, is a poor Engineer, and … he who does the best work at the lowest cost sooner or later stands at the top of his profession.”
-- Henry R. TowneSource : "Shop management; a paper read before the American society of mechanical engineers". Book by F.W. Taylor, New York, Foreword, 1911.
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“The dollar is the final term in almost every equation which arises in the practice of engineering in any or all of its branches, except qualifiedly as to military and naval engineering, where in some cases cost may be ignored.”
-- Henry R. TowneSource : "Industrial Engineering". An Address Delivered at the Purdue University, February 24, 1905.
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“A railroad may have to be carried over a gorge or arroya. Obviously it does not need an Engineer to point out that this may be done by filling the chasm with earth, but only a Bridge Engineer is competent to determine whether it is cheaper to do this or to bridge it, and to design the bridge which will safely and most cheaply serve.”
-- Henry R. Towne
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Source : Ada Leverson (1951). “The limit”
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“Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.”
Source : Samuel Smiles (2014). “Self-Help”, p.156, Cambridge University Press
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“Few are aware that they want any thing, except pounds schillings and pence.”
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“The joke in aviation is, 'If you want to make a million, you'd better start with £10m.'”
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“I went from 220 pounds that I cut down for 'Moneyball' to almost 270-280 pounds for 'Ten Year.'”
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Source : Alan Cooper (1999). “The Inmates are Running the Asylum”, Sams Publishing
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“If John Kerry had a dollar for every time he bragged about serving in Vietnam - oh wait, he does.”
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