Engineering or technology is all about using the power of science to make life better for people, to reduce cost, to improve comfort, to improve productivity, etc.


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I had this desire to see the world. I couldn't see any of it, but I saw it in my imagination, an...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
I have always regarded historical fiction and fantasy as sisters under the skin, two genres separate...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for ...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
I prefer to work with grey characters rather than black and white.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
I've always preferred writing about grey characters and human characters. Whether they are giant...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
Start with short stories. After all, if you were taking up rock climbing, you wouldn't start wit...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
Many writers will get a contract by selling chapters and outlines or something like that. I wrote th...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
Don't write outlines; I hate outlines.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
When I'm writing from a character's viewpoint, in essence I become that character; I share t...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
The prejudice is still there, but it's breaking down. You have writers like Michael Chabon and T...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
It's like these ideas, these characters, kind of bubble up inside me, and one day they're no...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
With a book I am the writer and I am also the director and I'm all of the actors and I'm the...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
I never liked Gandalf the White as much as Gandalf the Grey, and I never liked him coming back. I th...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
The success that the Tolkien books had redefined modern fantasy.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
If you go all the way back, I've always written science-fiction, I've always written fantasy...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
I have many books that I want to write; I'd like to think that I'll be around for another 20...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
If I was a soldier going to war, I'd be pretty scared the night before a battle. It's a scar...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
Of course it's not enough to be a good man to be an effective ruler and it never has been.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
I only feel sorry for weak people. And mostly what I've come to find is that the weak people are...
R. KELLY
I have Marvin Gaye's driver's license. His wife sent it to me, because she really loved my &...
R. KELLY
I started to wear the sunglasses all the time at school, hiding behind them... I'd walk down the...
R. KELLY
I'm very responsible. And with ability you have to have responsibility. I'm not perfect. But...
R. KELLY
When you hear romantic music, it makes you want to take your girl out to dinner or buy her something...
R. KELLY
Not only did I get an A in music but I got an A in ladies.
R. KELLY
If I'm going to be a leader then I have to go places that other people are afraid to go to. That...
R. KELLY
You know, I'm no different from a fireman. You got to run into a fire no matter how big the blaz...
R. KELLY
I still feel like I'm alone at times - even if I'm in the midst of a million people. Because...
R. KELLY
In life, you have people that love to party. That's me. People that love God. That's me. Peo...
R. KELLY
I learnt a whole lot from my mother. About music, relationships, being a good person, loving people,...
R. KELLY
I'm no angel, but I'm no monster, either.
R. KELLY
I try to write life and not songs. People live life, and when you write life, you're going to me...
R. KELLY
Love has never failed. It has won every battle. And today and forever more it will go on undefeated....
R. KELLY
You're younger, you might want to go to clubs and kick it, but as you get older, you start seein...
R. KELLY
Downstairs in my house, I have a museum room. I keep all of my awards down there, and childhood phot...
R. KELLY
Well, I believe that the depth of your struggle can determine the height of your success. I was insp...
R. KELLY
My greatest competition is, well, me.
R. KELLY
I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, bu...
R. KELLY
Once I started singing, I didn't have to try to be cool. I was just one of the coolest guys arou...
R. KELLY
I walk around every day with a radio playing constantly in my head, and this radio station plays a l...
R. KELLY
I will always do R. Kelly - I'm not perfect, but I'm perfectly me.
R. KELLY
I'm the Ali of today. I'm the Marvin Gaye of today. I'm the Bob Marley of today. I'm...
R. KELLY
Wasted time means wasted lives.
R. SHANNON
Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broke in cracking them, but never is the stomach fille...
R. VENNING
It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.
R. PALMER
Life is too short to learn German.
R. PORSON
If you were busy being kind, Before you knew it, you would find You'd soon forget to think 'twas tru...
R. FOREMAN
Math is like love -- a simple idea but it can get complicated.
R. DRABEK
Beautiful light is born of darkness, so the faith that springs from conflict is often the strongest ...
R. TURNBULL
We trample grass, and prize the flowers of May; yet the grass is green when the flower fades away.
R. SOUTHWELL
The land too poor for any other crop, is best for raising men.
R. POCOCK