Samuel Florman Quotes

#1. Many of those who can, do. Some of those who don't, write, and tend to criticize doing.

Samuel C. Florman

#2. The engineer's power was usually limited to a refusal to endorse a given plan, or to the tender of his resignation.

Samuel Florman

#3. There is scarcely a technical issue for which you cannot find expert witnesses of differing opinions.

Samuel Florman

#4. A clarion call to the David's of the land to come back from the field and confront the Goliaths of their era. Selah!!!

Sunday Adelaja

#5. Here are some homosexuals whom we would do well to take seriously.

Robertson Davies

#6. It is clear that our survival and the salvaging of our environment are dependent on more technology, not less.

Samuel Florman

#7. Engineering is a basic instinct in man, the expression of which is existentially fulfilling.

Samuel Florman

#8. When you sit on something for so long you can't see beyond it. It's all you can see, so you become locked in it.

Anthony Hemingway

#9. We recognize that we cannot survive on meditation, poems and sunsets. We are restless. We have an irresistible urge to dip our hands into the stuff of the earth and do something with it.

Samuel Florman

#10. Man cannot help but transcend himself as soon as he begins to design and construct.

Samuel Florman

#11. When I walk between the rain drops, I never get wet.' Taken from ENEMY WITHIN, due out next year

Andrew Hixson

#12. We all have ambivalent feelings toward work ... We try to avoid it, and yet we seem to require it for our emotional well-being.

Samuel Florman

#13. It is possible to be happy and successful by living on one's own terms.

Fennel Hudson

#14. There will be no new arcadian age. There will always be new burdens, new problems, new failures, new beginnings. And the glory of man is to respond to his harsh fate with zest and ever-renewed effort.

Samuel Florman

#15. I just think that probably when somebody calls themselves 'born again' and kind of goes out there in a pretty radically zealous way, professes their glee about that, it can creep people out.

Stephen Baldwin

#16. The ancient joy of helping the tribe to survive is constantly rekindled in the engineer's heart.

Samuel Florman

#17. Every technological product has to be designed and its fabrication overseen, and this is what engineers DO.

Samuel Florman

#18. Knowledge gives a wider choice and more anguish.

Samuel Florman

#19. Engineering is the art or science of making practical.

Samuel Florman

#20. I want out of each and every one of you is a hard target search, of every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and doghouse in that area.

Tommy Lee Jones