If car manufacturers made cars according to spec the same way software vendors make software according to spec, all five wheels would… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
I am a qualified civil engineer but academics never attracted me as I was a sleepoholic when I was in college. — Badshah Copy Share Image
To the engineer falls the job of clothing the bare bones of science with life, comfort, and hope. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
“To confine soldiers to purely military functions while urgent and vital tasks have to be done, and nobody else is available to… — David Galula Copy Share Image
I would say the most help I got was from my dad. My dad is a civil engineer in Switzerland; he's 90… — Claude Nicollier Copy Share Image
Some refugees will find it relatively easy to find jobs. A university-educated Syrian civil engineer arriving in Munich will need to learn… — Jose Angel Gurria Copy Share Image
When engineers and quantity surveyors discuss aesthetics and architects study what cranes do we are on the right road. — Ove Arup Copy Share Image
My dad wanted me to be a professional person, which I was - I was a civil engineer. I graduated from civil… — James Hong Copy Share Image
Engineers are not superhuman. They make mistakes in their assumptions, in their calculations, in their conclusions. That they make mistakes is forgivable;… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
I started in engineering, where I think I could have happily remained and, who knows, made a bundle as a civil engineer… — Jim Peebles Copy Share Image
My dad was a brilliant civil engineer. My parents later divorced, but we lived in Abu Dhabi, Greece, Kuwait. — Yasmine Hamdan Copy Share Image
Our infrastructure of bridges, roads and ports has been given a D-level rating by many civil engineer societies. The government should shift… — Philip Kotler Copy Share Image
My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918. — James Rainwater Copy Share Image
Aeroplanes are not designed by science, but by art in spite of some pretence and humbug to the contrary. I do not… — Walter Guido Vincenti Copy Share Image
To define it rudely but not inaptly, engineering is the art of doing that well with one dollar which any bungler can… — Arthur M. Wellington Copy Share Image
There can be little doubt that in many ways the story of bridge building is the story of civilisation. By it we… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
