I wanted to be an aeronautical engineer. But I didn't get…

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

— Herbert Hoover

My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.

— Eric Allin Cornell

I built bridges and worked for the army and SAS in Vietnam and Zimbabwe. I also sold watches and Jaguars in the Philippines and…

— Bob Christo

Go for civil engineering, because civil engineering is the branch of engineering which teaches you the most about managing people. Managing people is a…

— John Harvey-Jones

Therefore, O students, study mathematics and do not build without foundations.

— Leonardo da Vinci

No greater care is required upon any works than upon such as are to withstand the action of water; for this reason, all parts…

— Frontinus

“Dictionaries, manuals, grammars, study guides and topic notes, classical authors and the entire book trade in de Viris, Quintus-Curtius, Sallust, and Livy peacefully crumbled…

— Jules Verne

“This is shitty to say, but there's not much pathos involved in a case like that. Think about it: Little So-and-so the Fourth drowns…

— Cara Hoffman

“Data science is the civil engineering of data. Its acolytes possess a practical knowledge of tools and materials, coupled with a theoretical understanding of…

— Rachel Schutt

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

— Thomas Tredgold

Civil Engineering is the art of directing the great sources of Power in Nature for the use and convenience of man; being that practical…

— Thomas Tredgold

I cannot even open an umbrella properly. How could I ever have been a civil engineering student?

— Paresh Rawal

Engineering problems are under-defined, there are many solutions, good, bad and indifferent. The art is to arrive at a good solution. This is a…

— Ove Arup

The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where all can…

— Herbert Hoover

“What is Civil Engineering? Technology could be a skilled engineering regulation that chargeable for appearance, structure, and maintenance of the substantial surroundings. An Engineer,…

— S. Paul Kashap