Engineering Quotes · Page 20

In design, Mother Nature is our best teacher.

— Van Day Truex

I'm an engineer. I'm a techie, really.

— Mo Ibrahim

Designing Woman was written for the screen.

— Vincente Minnelli

Buildings are forms of performances.

— Rafael Vinoly

Style is engineering that gives you freedom.

— Chris Bangle

Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.

— Alan Kay

Workaholism is a block, not a building block.

— Julia Cameron

When does a building actually become a built?

— Le Corbusier

“When you turn the construction of your life over to God, He'll build something beautiful.”

— Joyce Myer

“Good design is obvious. Great design is transparent.”

— Joe Sparano

If you can design one thing, you can design everything.

— Massimo Vignelli

I think I've always just been trying to build my game.

— Trinity Rodman

You can padlock a building, but you can't padlock an idea.

— Myles Horton

There's nothing more expensive than messing up building and DIY projects.

— George Clarke

If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.

— Edward de Bono

Since I was 5, I was bitten by the bug of designing. It was all around me in my home.

— Sussanne Khan

Design impacts me in everything I do. Because, as I say, everything I own is designed. So the building I live in,…

— Cornelia Parker

This is what engineers in Silicon Valley typically do. "Ok, well, of course there are some problems of our technology because it…

— Ramesh Srinivasan

A building is no good if someone's got to explain to you why it's good. You can't say you don't know enough…

— David Chipperfield

Augmented and virtual reality technologies are the future of smart construction and we are just starting to see the possibilities.

— Grant Imahara

Engineers aren't professional grammarticians, but they love correcting people. Even more, they love making you feel stupid.

— Sarah Cooper

All we know about the new economic world is that nations which train engineers will prevail over those which train lawyers. No…

— Richard Lamm

“To build a healthy relation, bricks must be laid with care in the foundations. The building will merely have these foundations to…

— Wasif Minhas

Science, engineering, and technology have transformed the infrastructure of the modern world and have a vital role to play at the heart…

— Mark Walport

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

— Paul Polman

Design is a way of life, a point of view. It involves the whole complex of visual communications: talent, creative ability, manual…

— Paul Rand

When we trace the part of which this terrestrial system is composed, and when we view the general connection of those several…

— James Hutton

At VMware, the engineers worked very closely with our customers, closely with the field, and it was exciting for everyone. So, one…

— Diane Greene

We continue to have this illusion that things outside of us aren't driving what we think and believe, when in fact so…

— Tristan Harris

We have to respond to budget concerns, we have to respond to functional and programmatic concerns of the building, and we have…

— Peter Clewes

I have seen books made of things neither studied nor ever understood ... the author contenting himself for his own part, to…

— Michel de Montaigne

No one can believe I might have a brain. Because I'm really tall, I'm really blonde, I have big muscles, and kill…

— Dolph Lundgren

I'd like to build a TV company for myself.

— Rob Lowe

“What we became builds upon where we've come from.”

— Dr. Hussam Atef Elkhatib

As you may know, I am a mechanical engineer.

— Bill Nye

I like to find areas where design has not yet gone.

— Marcel Wanders

Building is a sweet impoverishing.

— George Herbert

Design is the last great competitive advantage.

— Seth Godin

Build on the rock before you hit rock bottom!

— John Bytheway

Design always has a purpose.

— Paula Scher