Engineering Quotes · Page 23

I am going to design... a Station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc.

— Anonymous

Don't ask me about this building or that one, don't look at what I do, see what I see.

— Luis Barragan

The fusion of art and technology that we call interface design.

— Steven Johnson

You have everything you need to build something far bigger than yourself.

— Seth Godin

If you don't build your dream... someone will hire you to help build theirs…

— Melchor Lim

“Children are the next generation under construction.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

There's always something that an engineer can do to make microscopes better.

— Eric Betzig

We've taken a show about destruction and turned it into a show about construction.

— Anson Mount

Design is about crafting an experience that is unfamiliar enough to feel novel, yet familiar enough to instill confidence.

— John Maeda

The machine code of the genes is uncannily computer-like. Apart from differences in jargon, the pages of a molecular biology journal might…

— Richard Dawkins

I spent an unreasonable amount of time drawing things on the computer and trying to mess up the computer. I developed this…

— Evan Sharp

Designing is my hobby. If I didn't do what I do for a living - at some point when I don't do…

— Ellen DeGeneres

I believe that the essence of good design is its ability to sustain long term integrity, to become classic and create a…

— Candice Olson

“Before you begin scrambling up the ladder of success, make sure that it is leaning against the right building.”

— Stephen Covey

I want industrial design to be a public subject. I want people to love objects the way they love clothing.

— Karim Rashid

“...architects (should) involve themselves continuously in anticipatory design as recommended by Buckminster Fuller”

— Cedric Price

“Engineer: You can wait over there, across the street at the Orpheum. Eli: No, I'll wait here. Engineer: Bar is about ready…

— Book of Eli Movie

My design process never starts or finishes. I am always hoping to find something through the mere act of living my daily…

— Rei Kawakubo

Even in such technical lines as engineering, about 15% of one's financial success is due one's technical knowledge and about 85% is…

— Dale Carnegie

“Our civilization is characterised by the word 'progress'. Progress is its form rather than making progress one of its features. Typically it…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Ah, bien je prétends que les courbes des quatre areêtes du monument, telles que le calcul les a fournies, donneront une grand…

— Gustave Eiffel

“There are fashions in building. Behind the fashions lie economic and technological reasons, and these fashions exclude all but a few genuinely…

— Jane Jacobs

Engineering serendipity is this idea that we can help people come across unexpected but helpful connections at a better than random rate.…

— Ethan Zuckerman

The accumulated knowledge of materials, computing, electromagnetism, product design, and all the rest that we've learned over the last several centuries converts…

— Ramez Naam

A country without engineering skill and knowledge will never become a developed country.

— Mahathir Mohamad

People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We don’t care about what you did yesterday—we care about what you’re going to do tomorrow.

— Cory Doctorow

When I went to college, I got an engineering degree and a full scholarship.

— Eve Torres

If you don't build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs.

— Dhirubhai Ambani

Apart from photography and music videos, I also do graphic design.

— Anton Corbijn

Talent is in short supply everywhere. At Wipro, we are training nonengineers to be engineers.

— Azim Premji

Watch with awe and amazement at how quickly an engineer will become totally annoyed by inefficiency.

— Rands

Enlightened social engineering is required to face situations that demand global action now.

— John Goodlad

I was black, studying physics and engineering. I was from a small school nobody ever heard of.

— Edwin Moses

Skype has a great engineering team, which I like to describe as 'all of Estonia.'

— Marc Andreessen

Some people design buildings and aircraft carriers and cars - and I designed picks.

— Rick Nielsen

To succeed at re-engineering, you have to be a missionary, a motivator, and a leg breaker.

— Michael Martin Hammer

Where you innovate, how you innovate, and what you innovate are design problems.

— Tim Brown

I'd like mostly stuff for design, because I like to design clothing.

— Quinn Shephard

To the engineer falls the job of clothing the bare bones of science with life, comfort, and hope.

— Herbert Hoover