Engineering Quotes · Page 33

“In design, one of the most difficult activities is to get the specifications right:”

— Donald A. Norman

“You build legacy when you do something and also when you do nothing.”

— Alin Sav

If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.

— Barack Obama

For me writing is as close to being an engineer as possible.

— Guy Kawasaki

Calling an engineer an applied scientist is like calling an artistic painter an applied pigment chemist

— Ritu Ghatourey

“A solid idea is a firm foundation of a universe construction.”

— Toba Beta

“It used to be said "Build it and they will come," now it is "Build it and bribe them in".”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

“The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.” —Leonardo da Vinci”

— Katy Bowman

London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design.

— Renzo Piano

Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era - it's a process that creates order out of chaos,…

— Clement Mok

If the building of a bridge does not enrich the awareness of those who work on it, then the bridge ought not…

— Frantz Fanon

You're telling the story, creating the sets, doing the lighting, the designing, and establishing the pace.

— Bill Sienkiewicz

I wanted to be a genetic engineer. That was my goal in college. I wanted to figure out what the codon sequence…

— Ashton Kutcher

“Design is a funny word. Some people think Design means how it looks. But, of course, if you dig deeper, it’s really…

— John Morgan

A reliable assurance of the right and ability to dismantle the constructed structure must be offered, before the job of construction starts…

— Zygmunt Bauman

It's an ancient and honorable term for the final step in any engineering project. Turn it on, see if it smokes.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

You never build the perfect building. Only Allah is perfect. Life is such. You make decisions on conclusions, then some guy invents…

— Frank Gehry

I was always told that I was good in mathematics, and I guess my grades and standardized test scores supported that. My…

— Henry Petroski

From repairing our roads and bridges, to building homes and businesses, to establishing critical infrastructure that connects and powers our communities, building…

— Josh Shapiro

To Monsieur Eiffel the Engineer, the brave builder of so gigantic and original a specimen of modern Engineering from one who has…

— Thomas A. Edison

“All wooden parts are being prepared according to the design of this surveyor and engineer, and [7th-GGF Georg] Kogler prefers following his…

— Johann Martin Boltzius

Leave a cavity behind the [wall] facings, and on the inside build walls two feet thick, made of red dimension stone or…

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

I have always made a point in my romances of basing my so-called inventions upon a groundwork of actual fact, and of…

— Jules Verne

“An architect is a generalist, not a specialist-the conductor of a symphony, not a virtuoso who plays every instrument perfectly. As a…

— Matthew Frederick

“Your life runs on a design – often one you didn’t choose.”

— Kevin L. Michel

To design something really new and innovative you have to reject reason.

— Jonathan Ive

When a new building block is discovered, the result is usually a range of innovations.

— John Henry Holland

Design: holding conflicting ideas in your head without difficulty

— Danny Hillis

“Work is an instrument through which you build yourself”

— Sunday Adelaja

My father was a trained engineer who got his qualifications at night school.

— David Starkey

Design is a word that's come to mean so much that it's also a word that has come to mean nothing.

— Jonathan Ive

The Pentagon is actually a 10-story building, five up and five down.

— Jack Keane

“You Don't Need To Jump Off Of A Building To Appreciate Architecture”

— Dean Cavanagh

Slow down and make building relationships as important as building projects.

— Greg Mortenson

Social engineering bypasses all technologies, including firewalls.

— Kevin Mitnick

Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.

— Louis Kahn

Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist.

— Anonymous

Israel has the best engineers in the world... I view Israel as a tremendous source of technologies

— Douglas H. Bosco

It may sound ambitious, but I really hope that modern design will spread all around the globe.

— Jil Sander

No one is going to tell you what to build. If they did, then they should do it, not you.

— Hosain Rahman