Engineering Quotes · Page 18

Art is to be free. Design is to fix.

— Kanye West

Design is so critical it should be on the agenda of every meeting in every single department.

— Tom Peters

I think of what the experience is of going into the building, of spending time in it, and try to get a…

— Paul Goldberger

In order to build chemistry you've got to really know one another.

— Sean McDermott

“Remember, you can't engineer genuine. You can only be genuine.”

— Steve Aoki

I pour concrete. I'm a construction guy.

— Dakota Meyer

In 1988, before I'd written a word for a car magazine or stood in front of a camera, I was a subeditor…

— James May

We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Boat building is intellectual - everything has a reason. In sculpture, it has a direction.

— Charles Ray

I would say for everyday I build buildings or houses like a bricklayer with canvas and paint.

— Georg Baselitz

But amid much elegance and precision, the details of life and the Universe also exhibit haphazard, jury-rigged arrangements and much poor planning.…

— Carl Sagan

When we vote we participate in the construction of a context...

— Aberjhani

“Great design = getting people to do what you want.”

— Seth Godin

Architecture, either practically considered or viewed as an art of taste, is a subject so important and comprehensive in itself, that volumes…

— Andrew Jackson Downing

When I was doing engineering, one day I thought that I want to be an actor, and apart from acting, I want…

— Sonu Sood

Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the…

— Herbert Hoover

“Engineering, this is ops! Status report!”

— David Mack

I've always liked working with an archetypal design, something functional.

— Grayson Perry

My own duty as a teacher...is not so much to interpret Beethoven, Wagner, or other masters of the past, but to give…

— Antonin Dvorak

Every few decades, we have an opportunity to make a drastic change to the way we live our lives. We get a…

— Paul Polman

Engineering is the art of managing scarcity - it's easy to design and build a massive bridge that will last forever if…

— Joe Lonsdale

Lyndon Johnson is not a comfortable model for President Obama to imitate. He is an all-but-forgotten president - pilloried for the failed…

— Robert Dallek

For every scientific (or engineering) action, there is an equal and opposite social reaction.

— Norman Ralph Augustine

Luck is a residue of design.

— Branch Rickey

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

— Ian Hislop