Engineering Quotes · Page 117

Where in the world have you seen construction people who do everything on time, with good quality and at minimal prices? Just…

— Vladimir Putin

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

— Winston Churchill

Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.

— Jamie Zawinski

“No foreign architect of stature, such as I. M. Pei, resides in Japan. Foreign architects come to Japan on short-term contracts, erect…

— Alex Kerr

The journey from engineering to acting just happened. I guess some things are meant to be.

— Kriti Sanon

Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution.

— Ivan Chermayeff

The nature of design is to synthesize disparate perspectives and create a richer end product through collaboration and iteration.

— Jens Martin Skibsted

A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.

— Ayn Rand

You're no longer the engineer or the physicist or the writer - you're the whistleblower.

— Susan Fowler

Anything which is physically possible can always be made financially possible; money is a bugaboo of small minds.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Engineers are problem solvers, and crucial to strengthening the economy, making Vermont more affordable, and protecting our most vulnerable.

— Phil Scott

“Design can help to improve our lives in the present. Design thinking can help us chart a path into the future.”

— Tim Brown

I really feel that design has the capacity to communicate, and I really have concentrated on the communication of positive values.

— Marcel Wanders

Schools should take part in the great work of construction and organization that will have to be done.

— John Dewey

With the advent of genetic engineering the time required for the evolution of new species may literally collapse.

— Dee Hock

The secretary of Homeland Security working with myself and my staff will begin immediate construction of a border wall.

— Donald Trump

Countries keep on building higher and higher buildings, instead of building higher and higher men!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

You could say that I had become possessed, in the classical sense, by the art of the great architects of the past.…

— Santiago Calatrava

If I go to a building and there's a lift and some stairs, I will try my best to take the stairs…

— Judi Love

I think people all over the institution recognize that different ways of understanding are valuable. Artists may think in a different way…

— Alan Lightman

I graduated from Wesleyan University with a B.A. in art. I was really headed toward an architecture degree, but when I did…

— Glenn Ligon

Design is a thinking process that starts in the head and with sketches. Thinking cannot be done by a computer.

— Dieter Rams

A reliable assurance of the right and ability to dismantle the constructed structure must be offered, before the job of construction starts…

— Zygmunt Bauman

I enjoy feeling physically strong, so maybe I'd like to be able to lift a building and launch it at someone.

— Nikki Reed

We didn't push it down people's throats...One turned into three in a short period of time. I built the first one and...one…

— Drew Waters