Engineering Quotes · Page 51

But while doing that I'd been following a variety of fields in science and technology, including the work in molecular biology, genetic…

— K. Eric Drexler

Spread the truth-the laws of economics are like the laws of engineering. One set of laws works everywhere.

— Lawrence Summers

I've always written. I'm from an older generation of programmers [who] did not come out of engineering. [A]ll sorts of people were…

— Ellen Ullman

I received a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, then graduated with a masters in nuclear engineering.

— Lonnie Johnson

A building is a very interesting frame. You always get a sort of sample of different people inside a building.

— Hito Steyerl

Technology is making design more exciting, with color, wallpaper, textures, fabrics that could never have been created without the technology.

— David Bromstad

Our vision is to rediscover the spirit of the Renaissance, create a new discipline where engineering for cultural heritage is actually a…

— Maurizio Seracini

I think I finally chose the graduate degree in engineering primarily because it only took one year and law school took three…

— Daniel J. Evans

I think people all over the institution recognize that different ways of understanding are valuable. Artists may think in a different way…

— Alan Lightman

There was a transition going on - Baghdad being the intellectual capital of the world where major advances were made in agriculture…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I think an engineer has not matured until he or she has conceived of a product and participated in every stage of…

— Martin Cooper

“As a result, the process of designing a product at Apple was integrally related to how it would be engineered and manufactured.…

— Walter Isaacson

Enlightened social engineering is required to face situations that demand global action now. Education is a long-term solution. Parents and the general…

— John Goodlad

It is vitally important for me to concentrate on myself, on the work that I have to do on the track and…

— Charles Leclerc

I started in the industry in Public Relations, Quality Assurance, Information Systems and furniture moving. I tried my hand in design and…

— Dan Miller

Now that I'm on Broadway, it's like NASA engineering with the costumes. I was very grateful for the slightly more high-tech ones…

— Nina Arianda

I wanted to go beyond the sentiments and needs of daily life to create a sense of wonder and find a new…

— Marcel Wanders

When design springs from an understanding of the people who are going to use a product, you begin to see forms that…

— Niels Diffrient

LEGO has essentially taken the concrete block, the building block of the world, and made it into the building block of our…

— Ayah Bdeir

Proper accounting is like engineering. You need a margin of safety. Thank God we don't design bridges and airplanes the way we…

— Charlie Munger

When we hire someone, even if they are going to be in marketing, I will have them talk to the design folks…

— Steve Jobs

What I do is the opposite of building walls. I build bridges. A bridge is something that connects instead of separating.

— Santiago Calatrava

India has the opportunity to be a leader in genetic engineering, It has institutions that no other country has.

— Nina Fedoroff

In those countries with centuries of a craft tradition behind their building methods, techniques are tightly coordinated under the direction of the…

— Arthur Erickson

From Brighton to Bradford, from Suffolk to Somerset, I have explored some remarkable buildings and structures that, in different ways, have helped…

— Michael Portillo

In 2007 WebEx was acquired by Cisco and I became Cisco's Corporate VP of engineering, in charge of collaboration software.

— Eric Yuan

I kind of think of engineering like the chefs at a restaurant. Nobody's going to deny chefs are integrally important, but there's…

— Ben Silbermann

But I decided I wanted more education and I had to make a choice between starting law school, which was interesting to…

— Daniel J. Evans

Industrial design teaches empathy. Basically you have to put yourself in the shoes of the person you are designing for and you…

— Brian Chesky

Scientists study physical things, then describe them; engineers describe physical things, then build them.

— K. Eric Drexler

Many people think all I do is some random engineering work in between caving expeditions. It's been far more deliberate than that.

— William Stone

Man's endeavour to cross even the most difficult terrain with railway lines has produced some of the most stunning marvels of engineering…

— Prashant Bhushan

“Pornography wants to suck you up. Once you got sucked up… you are going to be manipulated by social engineering.”

— Deyth Banger

I hate the idea of getting in a building that someone else has designed and having to do something to it yourself…

— Sean Booth

“Engineers are, by definition, people whose work is dedicated to making people's lives easier; or, as people used to say, whose work…

— Edward Teller

Color is a very critical thing. I've found that architects don't like colors. Engineers too. And so somebody has to stand in.…

— John Hench

Lead a life of your own design, on your own terms -not one that others, or the environment have scripted for you.

— Tony Robbins

Listening, Testing, Coding, Designing. That's all there is to software. Anyone who tells you different is selling something.

— Kent Beck

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A building is a human being's space and the background for his dignity and its exterior should reflect its contents and function

— Gottfried Bohm