Engineering Quotes · Page 24

I'd like to do a lot of things - whether in design or architecture or business.

— Caroline Wozniacki

“Good designs are in special places for those who has appreciation; bad designs are everywhere.”

— Baris Gencel

“Breaking into the building was easy. Too easy for an assassin like me.”

— Jennifer Estep

I wanted to pursue chemical engineering because I thought it was the future.

— Mukesh Ambani

What's nice about having an engineering degree is everybody thinks you are smart.

— Ato Essandoh

The best way to accomplish serious design ... is to be totally and completely unqualified for the job.

— Paula Scher

Not all SF or fantasy has to inspire new scientists and engineers.

— David Brin

A proper building grows naturally, logically, and poetically out of all its conditions.

— Louis Sullivan

I didnt know what architecture was except that I lived in a house. I dont even think that I knew the word…

— Antoine Predock

When I was doing engineering, one day I thought that I want to be an actor, and apart from acting, I want…

— Sonu Sood

Successful design is not the achievement of perfection but the minimization and accommodation of imperfection.

— Henry Petroski

With a little effort we can turn anything which we thing of no value, to something which is a head turner… :-p

— Gokul

If you're lucky, and a building succeeds, the real product has many more dimensions than you can ever imagine. You have the…

— Peter Zumthor

It doesn't help to just get women's opinions and then turn them over to an all-white-male engineering team.

— Anita Borg

My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers. I only started the company when I…

— Steve Wozniak

With buildering, I get to keep that element of danger. Plus, I very much like the feeling of height, and buildings have…

— Alain Robert

Every orchid or rose or lizard or snake is the work of a dedicated and skilled breeder. There are thousands of people,…

— Freeman Dyson

The best engineer a few decades ago was someone who could create the most beautiful beam or structure; today it's to do…

— Jean Nouvel

I work a little bit like a sculptor. When I start, my first idea for a building is with the material. I…

— Peter Zumthor

“Our plans and designs should be so perfect in truth and beauty, that in touching them the world could only mar. We…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Dad and Mom were frustrated artists - Dad wanted to study engineering or architecture and Mom wanted to be an actress -…

— Eden Robinson

Women today have so many opportunities in fields like engineering. The work is new and engineers are making things work, making the…

— Judith Love Cohen

If we taught music the way we try to teach engineering, in an unbroken four year course, we could end up with…

— Charles Kettering

The federal government was responsible for building the levees, engineering the levees, and consequentially, the federal government is responsible for repairing the…

— Mitch Landrieu

Buildings are always better than drawings and models.

— Rafael Moneo

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

— Hank Green

I don't know technology and engineering. I don't know accounting.

— Bernard Ebbers

Whatever future you're building, don't try to program everything.

— Pierre Omidyar

I wanted to be an architect. I used to draw houses and buildings and construct buildings on my own.

— Boyd Holbrook

That's point of writing: building what you need, right?

— Daphne Gottlieb

I look most like myself... when I'm wearing my black, nerdy engineering glasses.

— Junot Diaz

I try to design into a world that is constantly moving, and moving me.

— Ralph Lauren

Design is an expression of one's most deeply rooted internal values.

— Joe Gebbia

“I like to think of myself more as an outcome engineer.”

— J.R. Ward

My love for interior designing has always been there.

— Gauri Khan

I'm an engineer. I see myself as a toolmaker and the musicians are my customers... They use my tools.

— Robert Moog

During my engineering days, I learnt to value diversity, not to take shortcuts in life.

— Rajeev Suri

One is always a long way from solving a problem until one actually has the answer.

— Anonymous

Intuitive design is how we give the user new superpowers.

— Jared Spool

Basically, if I have no intention of using a service then I won't bother reverse-engineering it.

— Anonymous