My background is in physics, so I was the mission specialist, who is sort of like the flight engineer on an airplane. — Sally Ride Copy Share Image
“With commitment and vision, it is possible to build a bridge between potential partners and communities whose work is of relevance to… — Widad Akrawi Copy Share Image
The tall modern office building is the machine pure and simple...the engine, the motor and the battleship the works of the century. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
You may include things you believe to be crucial in a design, but those elements are often only crucial to you. — Hillman Curtis Copy Share Image
I say this as an engineer: We are profoundly bad at asking ourselves how the things we build could be misused. — Brianna Wu Copy Share Image
Everything we do is designed, whether we're producing a magazine, a website, or a bridge. Design is really the creative invention that… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
Anything which is physically possible can always be made financially possible; money is a bugaboo of small minds. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Life is the art of finding or building a bridge with a great determination every time you come across a precipice!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
College football is no more of a minor league than, say, the universities' schools of journalism, engineering or music are. We can… — William C. Rhoden Copy Share Image
“And one day, very soon in fact, Adi would be an adolescent. An adolescent son of a clerk. A miserable thing to… — Manu Joseph Copy Share Image
While political and cultural factors are important as explanations for differences in national technology policy and industrial practices, emergent trends in science,… — Lewis M. Branscomb Copy Share Image
I was born into a working class Irish Catholic family at the brutal bottom of the Great Depression. I suppose this early… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Engineering stimulates the mind. Kids get bored easily. They have got to get out and get their hands dirty: make things, dismantle… — Bruce Dickinson Copy Share Image
The future is better than the past. Despite the crepe hangers, romanticists, and anti-intellectuals, the world steadily grows better because the human… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Do we pour $40 billion into grandiose Louisiana engineering projects or do we instead put up no trespassing- signs in the areas… — Douglas Brinkley Copy Share Image
There are fewer Arabs in Tel Aviv, one of the largest cities in the Middle East, than there are in Chicago, the… — Max Blumenthal Copy Share Image
A lot of the work in, say, construction or restaurants involves visual and motor flexibility. It also requires adaptability, in terms of… — David Autor Copy Share Image
Trying to determine the structure of a protein by UV spectroscopy was like trying to determine the structure of a piano by… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
You could say that I had become possessed, in the classical sense, by the art of the great architects of the past.… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
I'm not an engineer. I did not study engineering in school. But I was a super ambitious student growing up. — Simone Giertz Copy Share Image
My dad was an engineer and so I had this picture of science and technology and pursuits of the mind as being… — Scott McCloud Copy Share Image
Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition. — Freeman Thomas Copy Share Image
One should proceed with caution. We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that… — Leon Kass Copy Share Image
Now, the engineers and managers believe with all their hearts the glorious things their forebears hired people to say about them. Yesterday's… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I have long aspired to make our company a noble prototype of industry, penetrating in science, reliable in engineering, creative in aesthetics… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
From initial concept to final build, 'Train' was close to a year in development. Much of this was research and letting the… — Brenda Brathwaite Copy Share Image
Every Porsche is hand-built - one person, one engineer works on the car the entire way through so there's attention to detail… — Yannick Bisson Copy Share Image
Remember, everything you are building today will be killed or iterated. The former is more likely than the latter. Great products are… — Justin Kan Copy Share Image
All astronauts have degrees in science, engineering, or medicine, but other than that, there's no one path to NASA. The one thing… — Shannon Walker Copy Share Image
We are being colonised without New Zealanders having some say in the numbers of people coming in and where they are coming… — Winston Peters Copy Share Image
The essence of design... lies in the process of discovering a problem shared by many people and trying to solve it. — Kenya Hara Copy Share Image
I come from a long line of architects. I'm the only one who did not become an architect, but I've been around… — Kym Whitley Copy Share Image
“The Fukushima nuclear complex went on to become the worst man-made engineering disaster in all of human history, outside of war.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Computer Science is the only discipline in which we view adding a new wing to a building as being maintenance. — Jim Horning Copy Share Image
“A good businessman knows how to make a profit. An engineer makes sure it runs well. We need more leaders who are… — Phil Mitchell Copy Share Image
In the evenings the art of building gave way to that of music, which is architecture, too, though invisible. — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
“One of the chief goals of design ought to be protecting people from unnecessary tension, friction, and mental labor.” — Brian Christian Copy Share Image
Software Engineering is that part of Computer Science which is too difficult for the Computer Scientist. — Friedrich L. Bauer Copy Share Image
I'm fascinated by steam engines and with Victorian engineering generally, and as a corollary to that, I'm fascinated by the idea of… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
The switch from 'steam engines' to 'heat engines' signals the transition from engineering practice to theoretical science. — Hans Christian von Baeyer Copy Share Image
