I don't spend my time pontificating about high-concept things; I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems.
To the engineer falls the job of clothing the bare bones of science with life, comfort, and hope.
Our problems are technical, not political
In general, when moviemakers talk to scientists, they usually see them as a resource to solve particular technical problems or script problems for them. So, something like: what sort of weaponry would aliens be able to wield?
As an engineer I'm constantly spotting problems and plotting how to solve them.
It is a commonplace of modern technology that problems have solutions before there is knowledge of how they are to be solved.
I think it's an important part of the visual effects supervisor's job to get really deeply embedded in production and keep us all focused on trying to generate the best result. I'm not proprietary about, 'I would rather do this effect than let physical effects do it.' No, let's do the smartest thing for the movie.
Part of the process is always, 'Is there a better way?' We try to think through if there's something we can do better creatively or technically, or just is more efficient.
Science is telling us that the reason people die is not because some god said so or because the laws of nature mandate it. People always die because of technical problems. And every technical problem has, in principle, a technical solution.
Bolts are the murder of the impossible.
Many of the problems facing the nation and the world today may only be solved if their technical elements are understood - climate change, energy supply, health care, and infrastructure, to name just a few.
A good engineer thinks in reverse and asks himself about the stylistic consequences of the components and systems he proposes.
Our business model is primarily that of consulting, engineering, system integration, and managed services.
Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design.
There is a policy response that needs to occur. There is also a technical response that needs to occur. It is the development community that can really craft the solutions and make sure we are safe.
It will be very hard to convince everyone in the world to handle their plastics responsibly, but what we humans are very good in, is inventing technical solutions to our problems.
Architects often have a mindset where you solve a problem, so you have a set of needs that you have to address. Often I feel that my projects have to have concrete applications.
Give me the best ideas. Forget about the politics. I’ll worry about that after we know what the best program is.
Every movie presents unusual challenges, and I like solving the problems with a combination of artwork and engineering.
O2O and all-in-one systems mean we have to make online and offline inventory accessible to each other. This is complicated both in terms of the technical aspect and in cost. A story sounds wonderful, but if it is too costly, it is not good. Technology has to match business.
Intel is not the right person to be making clothing or even wristbands. We want to provide the fashion industry with the technical solutions.
Anytime you put a challenge out there, people come up with a creative solution on the software side.
On the sixth day God saw He couldn't do it all, so He created ENGINEERS
The tech industry has a strong bias towards technical solutions to social problems.
