Engineering Quotes

I want to build a legacy.

— Gervonta Davis

Design is people.

— Jane Jacobs

To build is to dwell.

— Maxine Kumin

To build is to be robbed.

— Samuel Johnson

Be proud guys

— Prabhu Sampath

I like building.

— Ross Levinsohn

“We are what we build”

— Lois Farfel Stark

We want to build a wall.

— Steve Scalise

Good design is thorough, down to the last detail.

— Dieter Rams

Great design is serious, not solemn

— Paula Scher

Really, everything is designed.

— Paula Scher

Do you want to build a spaceship?

— Anonymous

If you build it, nerds will come.

— Jon Lovitz

Build what you want to see in the world.

— Jack Dorsey

I didn't do any designs for 'My Fair Lady.'

— Hubert de Givenchy

Design for me is my escape.

— Kendra Scott

Be able to read blueprints, diagrams, floorplans, and other diagrams used in the construction process.

— Marilyn vos Savant

With fashion, you really need to understand the aspects of construction. Not just design on an iPad.

— Tim Gunn

I was happy to have an attraction in our building that we didn't have to pay for.

— Harold Ballard

British innovation in design, in the creative arts, in engineering and manufacturing is world class.

— Margaret Heffernan

Where we're standing right now, in the ruins in the dark, what we build could be anything.

— Chuck Palahniuk

We built tall buildings, but we have not become any taller.

— Dejan Stojanovic

“Build it and they shall come, write it and they shall read .(me), but not the first bit though.”

— Karl Coates

“I came to speak ill of Swedish engineering, and so diddled myself out of a Nobel Prize.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

It's all very brilliant to build bridges and buildings, but long after we're gone, it will be the natural things in this…

— Rupert Friend

All the food we eat, whether Brussels sprouts or pork bellies, has been modified by mankind. Genetic engineering is only one particularly…

— Michael Specter

An osteopath is only a human engineer, who should understand all the laws governing his engine and thereby master disease.

— Andrew Taylor Still

Design, vitalized and simplified, will make the comforts of civilized life available to an ever-increasing number of Americans.

— Raymond Loewy

I like building houses, working as a carpenter, painting. You work with your hands to the best of your ability, and at…

— Brian Fallon

I needed to understand the spirit of a tall building, what makes it important, what should I try to achieve in a…

— Cesar Pelli

I have been in a 'man's' world as long as I can remember. I was an engineering major in college, I am…

— Eve Torres

In my fool hardy youth, when my friends were dreaming of heroic deeds in the realms of engineering and law, finance and…

— Alberto Manguel

I hope climate science becomes the big thing. And then what I want is electrical engineers to solve the world's energy problems,…

— Bill Nye

“If, as I believe, the conceptual structures we construct today are too complicated to be accurately specified in advance, and too complex…

— Frederick P. Brooks Jr

The exposure I have had to beautiful materials across the world, from Japan to Italy, enables me to pull design ideas together.…

— Colleen Atwood

In the end, it's clear that the incorporation of synthetic biology in product and architectural design will enable the transition from designs…

— Neri Oxman

I was nerdy girl who went to Catholic school and wanted to be an engineer. I was all set to attend the…

— Cindy Morgan

Universal design systems can no longer be dismissed as the irrelevant musings of a small, localized design community. A second modernism has…

— Ellen Lupton

The engineering, analytics, design, testing, and delivery behind our products offer some of the hardest engineering and business challenges in the world.…

— Bobby Kotick

For a long time I thought I should be a civil engineer. That seemed to be the only thing worth doing, and…

— Ian Hislop