“All of these tanks contain essentially homogenous mixtures that have been brought together from a bunch of varying sources. Modesto brings in grapes from all over California and outside of California to create something that consumers will recognise consistently as being the same wine.”
"Engineering is through tinkering, through being playful with the world that’s around us. So, understanding fundamentally how things work to the point where I can start to wonder around ‘how can I hack them.’ That’s the first step: ‘how can I change them?' and ‘how can I make through a systematic process changes to these things I’m playing with to make them do what I want?’” Explore more >>
“I get interested in the end-user and the particular uses that things that are engineered get used for, and not always designed in from the start. There’s nothing stopping this guy from sitting on this stool and browsing through books. Or even going around the corner and dragging a chair from a desk and standing on that. Different ways to achieve the same results, and it’s how a person is positioned. If you’re a student, or a library staff, or a health and safety officer, you might do different things with different objects but still get the same result.” Explore more >>
“I was looking for something that was archetypal engineering. So, you look at this picture and there are two obvious pieces: one obvious piece of civil engineering, the viaduct, and an obvious piece of mechanical engineering, the train.” Explore more >>
"It has to deal with a lot of different inputs that are not drinkable, that come from living things, to create something that is robustly standardised.”
“A good engineering system is a system that you use every day and you don’t even realise that it’s been engineered. It is just doing what it has been built for in such an elegant and beautiful way that you don’t even realise that there is a lot of understanding, rigorous aspects put into the process to make it work.” Explore more >>
“It’s far from what people would generally consider engineering, but it works. It worked, and it changed the world. Now we have billions of those components and those elements actually run our lives.” Explore more >>
"Engineering is through tinkering, through being playful with the world that’s around us. So, understanding fundamentally how things work to the point where I can start to wonder around ‘how can I hack them.’ That’s the first step: ‘how can I change them?' and ‘how can I make through a systematic process changes to these things I’m playing with to make them do what I want?’” Explore more >>
“It poses a sense of, ‘alright, we are taking all of these natural things but we are going to make sure that we can control what we put out even if we can’t control what we put in.’”
“A good engineering system is a system that you use every day and you don’t even realise that it’s been engineered. It is just doing what it has been built for in such an elegant and beautiful way that you don’t even realise that there is a lot of understanding, rigorous aspects put into the process to make it work.” Explore more >>
“I quite like it because this is from the 1870s, I think, and you can see that this guy is, it feels like quite a modern photo. The way it’s set up, it’s kind of stylised, and this way of demonstrating power, demonstrating mastery. If we look at the guy, you can’t see it very well, but he looks in command.” Explore more >>