Engineering Quotes · Page 38

Every single life is about construction and destruction.

— Gaspar Noe

The single biggest problem in design is finding out from the client what it is that they really want.

— Syd Mead

My father was a construction engineer, and my mother was a production engineer.

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Engineering, I think you can pick up. [A data scientist's] curiosity is built-in

— Scott Nicholson

People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok.

— Zaha Hadid

I want to write, produce, act, and get into fashion design.

— Tonya Mitchell

“Scientists discover the world that exists; engineers create the world that never was.”

— Theodore Von Karman

Great design... you won't have a business today without great design.

— Angela Ahrendts

There's a bias on hiring the best engineers wherever they come from. It does seem like a lot of the non-engineering execs…

— Ken Auletta

I studied engineering at Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo, and between my junior and senior years I actually joined the Navy, while I…

— Victor J. Glover

If we want to get beyond this whole I'm-cool-because-I-care-about-women thing, what we really need to do is we have to start encouraging…

— Michael Arrington

“Like craftsmen in a medieval guild, NASA engineers hoped that one day their children would decide to take up the mantle of…

— Margot Lee Shetterly

By employing the intelligence of natural systems we can create industry, buildings, even regional plans that see nature and commerce not as…

— Brad Pitt

Our job is to show how it is possible to take an illiterate woman and make her into an engineer in six…

— Bunker Roy

Once I got out of architecture school I decided not to be an architect, I just started my own little design studio.

— Joseph Kosinski

This is not the internet the world needs, or the internet its creators envisioned. We need to take it back. And by…

— Bruce Schneier

Probably, if I created a venture fund, I would create a firm with virtual services not too different from the a16z model,…

— Peter Levine

There are a lot of designers who think they understand technology and a lot of technology guys who think they understand design.…

— Tony Fadell

“1. Have clear goals. 2. Identify and don’t tolerate the problems that stand in the way of your achieving those goals. 3. Accurately diagnose…

— Ray Dalio

“What would the engineer say, after you had explained your problem and enumerated all of the dissastisfactions in your life? He would…

— Neal Stephenson

We can change our thinking. Rather than viewing the chemical adulteration of our environment and our bodies as the inevitable practice of…

— Sandra Steingraber

The other dynamic keeping the stock market up - both for technology stocks and others - is that companies are using a…

— Michael Hudson

If we lose those people who come to the United States and get a PhD in computer engineering for example and they…

— Jerry Moran

“An erect building is a shackled slave. I hear the mutinous grumbling of vertical buildings. I hear the grinding frustration of those…

— Declan Burke

Building walls is entirely sensible. We don't need to do it. We have got the English Channel.

— Nigel Farage

It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.

— Anonymous

In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.

— Charles Eames

“The inner critic? His ass is not permitted in the building.”

— Steven Pressfield

Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.

— Alan Cooper

“I actually enjoyed construction, primarily for the camaraderie.”

— Tom Robbins

Are you kidding? I jumped off a building -- of course I'm hurt.

— Derek Landy

I love design, so it's important for me to have a creative outlet.

— Mark Parker

The world of design has been subjugated by the rigors of manufacturing and mass production.

— Neri Oxman

“Live Your Life By Design, Rather Than From Crisis to Crisis!”

— Carla Ferrer

Think good design is expensive? Just wait and see what bad design ends up costing you.

— Anonymous

Engineers don't have that sixth sense where we can just toss in things here and there like many chefs.

— Alvin Leung

I discovered at an early age that all I've ever wanted to do is design.

— Jonathan Ive

The future doesn't just happen. We are building it, and we are building it all the time.

— Hannah Fry

The road to success seems to always be under construction.

— DaniAlla And Her BFF

If another person were to enter the building, it would once again be empty.

— Seth Klarman