Engineers Quotes · Page 8

The music industry is dominated by guys. I work with men 98 percent of the time - producers, arrangers, musicians, engineers.

— Shakira

The task of the software development team is to engineer the illusion of simplicity.

— Grady Booch

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

— David Brin

To the engineer falls the job of clothing the bare bones of science with life, comfort, and hope.

— Herbert Hoover

Talent is in short supply everywhere. At Wipro, we are training nonengineers to be engineers.

— Azim Premji

Watch with awe and amazement at how quickly an engineer will become totally annoyed by inefficiency.

— Rands

[Professional engineers] must for years abandon their white collars except for Sunday.

— Herbert Hoover

I done became bigger swervin writin in my peer's lane. Same dudes that used to holla my engineer's name.

— Drake

Bring into reality the possibility of the improbable by acquiring a positive mental attitude. Say to yourself, as Henry Ford said to…

— W. Clement Stone

Often people, especially computer engineers, focus on the machines. But in fact we need to focus on humans, on how humans care…

— Yukihiro Matsumoto

This is not the age of pamphleteers. It is the age of the engineers. The spark-gap is mightier than the pen. Democracy…

— Lancelot Hogben

The engineer who counts cost as nothing as compared to the result, who holds himself above the consideration of dollars and cents,…

— Coleman Sellers II

Our fish, our recreation, our irrigation and all our uses of the Missouri River are threatened if the drought continues and the…

— Mike Rounds

We worked with the engineers in the design and construction and testing phases in those various areas, then we would get back…

— Alan Shepard

I'm an engineer by trade so I've always been interested in engineering and technology but also I've a strong interest in self…

— Andy Griffiths

I'm very critiqueful of my own stuff, and I kick everybody out the studio when I'm singing, no one is in the…

— Ginuwine

It is a great profession. There is the fascination of watching a figment of the imagination emerge through the aid of science…

— Herbert Hoover

It appears that there are enormous differences of opinion as to the probability of a failure with loss of vehicle and of…

— Richard P. Feynman

There is little doubt that, until 1846 when he helped to engineer the resignation of Robert Peel, Disraeli was driven by an…

— Christopher Hibbert

“Computer engineers of today are likely to find that if they have a two-week holiday they may miss a crucial new development…

— James Essinger

To the engineer, all matter in the universe can be placed into one of two categories: (1) things that need to be…

— Tom Stoppard

Engineering, like poetry, is an attempt to approach perfection. And engineers, like poets, are seldom completely satisfied with their creations. They notice,…

— Henry Petroski

By preventing a free market in education, a handful of social engineers - backed by the industries that profit from compulsory schooling:…

— Anonymous

We've done every record on our own. Its produced by our guitar player and sometimes we'll have some help mixin' it and…

— Jess Margera

We will employ almost every strategy and hustle in any possible way to recruit top engineers to our team.

— Charles Best

One has to watch out for engineers. They begin with the sewing machine and end up with the atomic bomb.

— Marcel Pagnol

A scientist builds in order to learn; an engineer learns in order to build.

— Fred Brooks

Natural species are the library from which genetic engineers can work.

— Thomas Lovejoy

Colleges produce more sports therapists than engineers. Perhaps because America is a sporty country: a lot of outdoors.

— Azim Premji

Engineers aren't professional grammarticians, but they love correcting people. Even more, they love making you feel stupid.

— Sarah Cooper

Life is the steam of the corporeal engine; the soul is the engineer who makes use of the steam-quickened engine.

— Sara Coleridge

Failure is Central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation.

— Henry Petroski

Many of the engineers I interviewed worked on reverse-engineering technology. It's a hallmark of Area 51.

— Annie Jacobsen

“We are technocrats. We make decisions like engineers. Which doesn't always line up with what people imagine they want.”

— Neal Stephenson

Engineering is the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man.

— Thomas Tredgold

If it weren't for the people always getting tangled up with the machinery... Earth would be an engineer's paradise.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Engineers are great at many things. They're not necessarily great at recognizing basic human psychology.

— Grant Imahara

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

— Alvin Leung

Don't make me out to be an artist. I am an engineer. I am after the facts, only the facts.

— Harold Eugene Edgerton

I tell my engineers that they should not overload me with information.

— Max Verstappen