Engineers Quotes · Page 6

Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.

— Elon Musk

Science can amuse and fascinate us all, but it is engineering that changes the world.

— Isaac Asimov

All our engineers are designers and all our designers are engineers.

— James Dyson

Scientists study the world as it is, engineers create the world that never has been.

— Theodore von Karman

I'm an engineer and a writer. And I find that those two things are not uncomplementary.

— Naomi Novik

There are many Iranians working at NASA. One of the engineers involved with the spaceship that went to Mars is an Iranian.

— Farah Diba

In free society art is not a weapon...Artists are not engineers of the soul.

— John F. Kennedy

If drink sales are falling off, we get the pilots to engineer a bit of turbulence. That usually spikes sales.

— Michael O'Leary

Parking's expensive, so I walk or ride my bike, which is good because my girlfriend's getting her PhD as an environmental engineer.

— Chaz Bundick

It's true that the original idea was mine, but what you see today is the work of probably tens of thousands of…

— Jack Kilby

Knowing more about the public effects his work will have, the engineer ought to consider himself an "officer of the court" and…

— Hyman Rickover

Bell Labs was a fantastic research organization but having them create and market new products for the world was terrible. They were…

— Martin Cooper

Engineers are really good at labeling and branding things. If we had named Kentucky Fried Chicken, it would have been Hot Dead…

— Vinton Cerf

The space shuttle was designed, at least in part, to broaden our knowledge of the universe. To scientists, the vehicle was a…

— Henry Petroski

“The brain can be put to better use by reducing anxiety, just as reducing friction between threads can increase the torque transferred…

— Haresh Sippy

I got a degree in math, from not a good school in Texas, and then I went to work as a software…

— Shane Carruth

Organization is simply the means by which the acts of ordinary men can be made to add up to extraordinary results. To…

— William Wickenden

At its core, bitcoin is a smart currency designed by very forward-thinking engineers. It eliminates the need for banks, gets rid of…

— Peter Diamandis

I always thought the women of my age group got short shrift because the women's liberation movement came slightly after. You look…

— Kevin Starr

I went to the graduation the other night of my first great grandchild - he's 21 or 22; and right at the…

— Louis Farrakhan

I don't know that I ever wanted greatness, on its own. It seems rather like wanting to be an engineer, rather than…

— Roger Zelazny

Once you have an innovation culture, even those who are not scientists or engineers - poets, actors, journalists - they, as communities,…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

We're in an era where the demand is for immediate hits that are destined to become obsolescent. Six months later, everyone forgets…

— Tony Bennett

Ideas, Mike Jones, an engineer at Google explained, were like babies - everything about their environment said they shouldn't exist. But they…

— Steven Levy

I like to think about the future and how things can be done better than they are now. That's what engineers do.

— Martin Cooper

Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.

— Cory Doctorow

Design is a process - an intimate collaboration between engineers, designers, and clients.

— Henry Dreyfuss

A scientist describes what is. An engineer creates what never was.

— Theodore von Karman

The engineer's power was usually limited to a refusal to endorse a given plan, or to the tender of his resignation.

— Samuel Florman

Engineers are very logical and everything has to be tested so when we fail, we'll know why and how to improve things.

— Alvin Leung

We have found fathers and grandfathers of children with autism are more likely to be engineers.

— Simon Baron-Cohen

Orchids were not made by an ideal engineer; they are jury-rigged from a limited set of available components.

— Stephen Jay Gould

As engineers, we were going to be in a position to change the world - not just study it.

— Henry Petroski

Everybody is headed for the same place, and they are headed on the same train, and under the same engineer.

— Harry S. Truman

Engineers at General Motors have developed a revolutionary new engine whose only function is to lubricate itself.

— George Carlin

“As in real life, complex engineering designs demand a pragmatic approach.”

— Haresh Sippy

The scientist and engineers who are building the future need the poets to make sense of it.

— Jason Silva

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

— Sarah Cooper

A lawyer is either a social engineer or he is a parasite on society.

— Charles Hamilton Houston

Israel has the best engineers in the world... I view Israel as a tremendous source of technologies

— Douglas H. Bosco