Christina Koch Quotes

All the traditional STEM fields, the science, technology, engineering, and math fields, are stoked when you dream big in an agency such as NASA.

A brilliant mind having a eureka moment could not create an Intel microprocessor containing a billion transistors any more than one person could dream up a Boeing 787 from scratch.

Rockets are cool. There's no getting around that.

Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty.

In the computer industry, you've got an interdisciplinary team of people who can come together, attack the problem, and work in a collaborative style. You knock down one problem after another, cobble things together, and then hopefully turn the crank at some point.

In the astronaut business - the shuttle is a very complicated vehicle; it's the most complicated flying machine ever built. And in the astronaut business, we have a saying, which is, 'There is no problem so bad that you can't make it worse.'

Coaching is very complex: it's like a puzzle, and many things need to come together to make it work.

Engineers have shown to embody a tremendous amount of leadership skills through the collaborative educational environment.

Most scientific or engineering discoveries would never become successful products without contributions from other scientists or engineers. Every major invention is the child of far-flung parents who may never meet.

I would not be able to change a sparking plug and I would not be able to fly a spaceship or build a rocket or whatever. But what I am good at doing is finding brilliant people and surrounding myself with brilliant people.

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.

It's never just about one player. Together, you have to figure out other ways to score and get opportunities.

I actually spent a lot of time reading about how professional managers work. And how people build bridges.

When you have a small, balanced squad, you can work better. First of all everyone is involved in every squad list, a meeting can be a good training session.

A team that can build a stronger car, a stronger working environment. A team that has the possibility to create something, that would be interesting.

What you have to have is very smart, motivated, dedicated, and focused engineers and focus them on the right goal.

I think communication is massive in football and in all sports in general.

The team I have to work with at Loewe is incredible, from the architect to the archivist.

Mistakes happen because so many minds work on one film.

You have to communicate - you have to click - to find automatic reactions with your teammates.

I just want people to be excited about hard stuff, that's what engineering is.

Teamwork is a significant part of 'Counter-Strike: Condition Zero' and many of the secondary objectives require you to effectively work with your squad.

Someone who's a really good engineer is someone who's a little bit smarter than you but who also listens to you and doesn't impose agendas.

You don't look at the big problem all together, because I think it's a little intimidating. So you just take it one day at a time, meet the people who are going to meet with you, for you, and who you're going to work for, and really try to do the best job that you can. That's all teamwork, and that's what space travel is about.

Art and creativity are crucial, whether you're a mathematician, a scientist, or an artist.