Engineering Quotes · Page 34

Good technology is intuitive - the cellphone forces you to become an engineer.

— Martin Cooper

Welcome to the O2. A unique building in Dublin, in that it is actually finished.

— Bill Bailey

So far we have done too much of 'spatial engineering'. The real thing is 'non-spatial engineering'.

— Kedar Joshi

Boat building is intellectual - everything has a reason. In sculpture, it has a direction.

— Charles Ray

The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

— Steve Jobs

So, to really execute design in its highest form and making people feel joy, that's a great reward.

— Genevieve Gorder

More than ever, the world needs good engineers. However, the pool of talent is shrinking not growing.

— Dean Kamen

A theory may be so rich in descriptive possibilities that it can be made to fit any data.

— Phillip Johnson-Laird

I am always surprised by how much little emphasis schools of architecture, and indeed, many architects, place on the process of the…

— Norman Foster

A system needs to be alive and workable even when other people than the first enthusiasts start using it. Reinvention and revolution…

— Erik Naggum

Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff…

— Walter Gropius

“Your consciousness is like a tiny stowaway on a transatlantic steamship, taking credit for the journey without acknowledging the massive engineering underfoot.”

— David Eagleman

The difference between architecture and engineering comes in only with the creation of schools. It's a bureaucratic distinction. The result of both…

— Santiago Calatrava

“Engineers and mechanics were as much products of the industrialization process as the material goods and the machinery by which those goods…

— Thomas Sowell

The trick to having good ideas is not to sit around in glorious isolation and try to think big thoughts. The trick…

— Steven Johnson

There are people who design buildings that are not technically and financially good, and there are those who do. Two categories -…

— Frank Gehry

The so-called ‘crank’ may be quite original in his ideas. … Invention, however, in the engineering sense involves originality; but not that…

— Elihu Thomson

“Design is a fundamental human activity, relevant and useful to everyone. Anything humans create—be it product, communication or system—is a result of…

— Maggie Macnab

I went to college because my father thought that I should learn engineering, because he wanted to go into the heating business…

— Leonard Susskind

“The small woman Builds cages for everyone She Knows. While the sage, Who has to duck her head When the moon is…

— Hafiz

“In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me,…

— Steve Jobs

It has been said that the three great develpments in twentieth century science are relativity, quantum mechanics, and chaos. That strikes me…

— Robert L. Devaney

My mom just wanted me to do anything that was academic, whether it was become a doctor or be a lawyer. Engineering…

— Ross Butler

Today when a man gets married he gets a home, a housekeeper, a cook, a cheering squad and another paycheck. When a…

— Duke of Wellington

“the most important part of design is finding all the issues to be resolved. The rest are details”

— Soumeet Lanka

Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete unoffended.

— Raymond Loewy

Once confined to fantasy and science fiction, time travel is now simply an engineering problem.

— Michio Kaku

I just like working with my family; I like building something together.

— Jeanie Buss

Ever since I was young I loved making things and being part of the design process.

— Maria Sharapova

I'm drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale.

— Brad Pitt

Design work doesn't just satisfy requirements, it elicits them.

— Fred Brooks

From the engineer to the producer, all of these roles are critical to creating a song.

— Russ

We rule the design of the house. We own the kitchen.

— Anonymous

Site Engineer is one who thinks single woman can deliver nine babies in one month.

— Nikhil Saluja

“A great feat of engineering is an object of perpetual interest to people bent on self-destruction”

— Michael Chabon

“Jim, I studied engineering in college. When I see things, I see them.”

— Ayn Rand

Science can improve lives in ways that are elegant in design and moving in practice.

— Harold E. Varmus

There's no faster way to get on the good side of most engineers than making fun of product managers.

— Sarah Cooper

Abstract art: a construction site for high fashion, for advertising, for furniture.

— Adrienne Monnier

When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.

— William Gibson