Engineering Quotes · Page 44

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

— Edwin Moses

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

— John Goodlad

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

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

— Seth Godin

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

There's nothing I believe in more strongly than getting young people interested in science and engineering, for a better tomorrow, for all…

— Bill Nye

“Hackers, makers, programmers, engineers, nerds, techies — what we’ll call “geeks” for the rest of the book (deal with it) — we’re…

— Jeff Potter

I've always known I wanted to be in design somehow. It was going to be architecture, but I would've had to quit…

— Aldis Hodge

I suppose the reason I chose electrical engineering was because I had always been interested in electricity, involving myself in such projects…

— Koichi Tanaka

Most of our competitors were one-product wonders... They would do their one product, but never get their engineering sorted out.

— Bill Gates

The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering-that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature…

— L. Sprague de Camp

I wanted to improve the suburban office building; to create a great urban space in a suburban environment with all that implies…

— Helmut Jahn

Unfortunately, I'm an engineer. I'm always thinking about, what's the task and how do I get it done? And some of my…

— Michael Porter

As a recording engineer - someone who is deeply embroiled in the process of making records every day - you see trends…

— Steve Albini

He who designs an unsafe structure or an inoperative machine is a bad Engineer; he who designs them so that they are…

— Henry R. Towne

The apologists for space science always seem over-impressed by engineering trivia and make far too much of non-stick frying pans and perfect…

— James Lovelock

I am simply pointing out that at the rate at which we are going the whole genetic engineering technology will end up…

— U.G. Krishnamurti

When you design a building, you start from a general philosophy, and you come down, and you start from detail and come…

— Renzo Piano

Designful companies are those that weave design thinking into the fabric of the company. In a designful company, innovation is rewarded instead…

— Marty Neumeier

Yeah, I think that his great creation was not any one product but a company in which creativity was connected to great…

— Walter Isaacson

In his or her life, each person can take one of two attitudes: to build or to plant. Builders may take years…

— Paulo Coelho

So I went for engineering, specifically product design, which I enjoyed.

— Debi Thomas

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

— Anonymous

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

— Cory Doctorow

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

— Anson Mount

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

— Mahathir Mohamad

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

— Ato Essandoh

“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

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

— Hank Green

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

— Pierre Omidyar

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

— Bernard Ebbers

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

— David Brin

Buildings are always better than drawings and models.

— Rafael Moneo

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

— Louis Sullivan

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

— Paula Scher