Almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I usually describe myself as an engineer; that's basically what I've been doing since I was a kid. — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
I own me, and therefore, I can engineer me. I am me, and I am Okay. — Virginia Satir Copy Share Image
If I could do anything, I'd be an engineer of some sort. I used to build robots. — Genesis Rodriguez Copy Share Image
I wanted to be an aeronautical engineer. But I didn't get a good rank, so I got civil engineering. — Jitendra Kumar Copy Share Image
I was striving to become an engineer, but something happened that made me think, 'Maybe I can make games instead.' — Masahiro Sakurai Copy Share Image
“I am so often the architect of my own pain and the engineer of my own failures.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Don't drag the engine, like an ignoramus, but bring wood and water and flame, like an engineer. — Maria Weston Chapman Copy Share Image
Particularly if you're a good engineer, there's a lot of ways you can make money, but to actually have an impact on… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
Time pressure gradually corrupts an engineer's standard of quality and perfection. It has a detrimental effect on people as well as products — Niklaus Wirth Copy Share Image
The worst thing in the world that can happen to you if you're an engineer that has given his life to something… — Tim Cook Copy Share Image
The engineer performs many public functions from which he gets only philosophical satisfactions. Most people do not know it, but he is… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
As a recording engineer - someone who is deeply embroiled in the process of making records every day - you see trends… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
Indeed, an engineer designing a structure is not unlike an artist painting one. Both start with nothing but talent, experience, and inspiration.… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
I'm an electrical engineer, and when I first started out, there was nobody who looked like me out there. I worked at… — Peggy Johnson 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
My grandparents used to pray five times a day, but they were quiet about their own thing. Completely liberal day by day;… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Why should a financial engineer be paid four, four times... to a hundred times more than the, uh... real engineer? A real… — Andrew Sheng Copy Share Image
The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
My first book, 'To Engineer Is Human,' was prompted by nonengineer friends asking me why so many technological accidents and failures were… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
I still feel that in India we look upon sports as a recreational activity - which it is - but people have… — Abhishek Bachchan Copy Share Image
The goal was for me to become a civil engineer. But one day I really felt that it was important for me… — Oti Mabuse Copy Share Image
“You must live a very free life." "Me?" she laughed. "I am not who swoops out of the sky to rain fire… — Sam Starbuck Copy Share Image
For as long as I can remember, I have been fascinated by things large and small. I wanted to know what made… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image