Engineering Quotes · Page 25

Education in my family was not merely emphasized, it was our raison d'être. Virtually all of our aunts and uncles had Ph.D.s…

— Steven Chu

Because they are so humbled by their creations, engineers are naturally conservative in their expectations of technology. They know that the perfect…

— Henry Petroski

Being the most striking manifestation of the art of metal structures by which our engineers have shown in Europe, it [the Eiffel…

— Gustave Eiffel

To build is to dwell.

— Maxine Kumin

When I became an astronaut, I was an engineer.

— Julie Payette

Even smaller companies are putting resources behind their analytics teams in the same way they put resources behind engineering and product teams.…

— Hilary Mason

The first principle of architectural beauty is that the essential lines of a construction be determined by a perfect appropriateness to its…

— Gustave Eiffel

Not all design is for the general good.

— Paola Antonelli

Quality is first engineered; only then it is inspected

— J. R. D. Tata

I am trying to get at the moral arguments and the ethical status of various attempts at enhancement, or genetic engineering, or…

— Michael Sandel

I went to college and did advanced electronical engineering, not really knowing what I wanted to do. It bored me to death,…

— Michael Bisping

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

Building strength is very important, but there are many ways to do that.

— Jake Arrieta

What we really believe in is high design at a low cost.

— Jeremiah Brent

“An erect building is a shackled slave. I hear the mutinous grumbling of vertical buildings. I hear the grinding frustration of those…

— Declan Burke

By law, all buildings should be white.

— Le Corbusier

So much of design is context.

— Steve Madden

All the traditional STEM fields, the science, technology, engineering, and math fields, are stoked when you dream big in an agency such…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

We are reaping the fruits of ten thousand, fifty thousand years of sowing of the fields of mind. And it is being…

— Terence McKenna

I discovered at an early age that all I've ever wanted to do is design.

— Jonathan Ive

Engineering is not quite as important as imagination.

— Satoru Iwata

Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete unoffended.

— Raymond Loewy

It was very useful to learn the history, the theory, and the art of building from a practical background.

— Mario Botta

I knew I wanted to be an engineer, but I didn't know what type of engineer. I chose electrical engineering primarily because…

— Steve Mollenkopf

Design, art, and science are all a melange.

— Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw