Engineering Quotes · Page 25

Old engineer in the train sitting in the shade. Strummin' with the rhythm that them drivers made.

— Peter Tosh

“                •   Initiation, business requirements, architecture and design,”

— William Dow

It is a terrific thing to get a building built that has the qualities of greatness in it.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

I want to do television, film, music and designing. I want to do it all!

— Chanel Iman

“I saw things in Florida that I had only ever read about in engineering text books before.”

— Steven Magee

Over the years, the tax code has become a vehicle for political favoritism and social engineering.

— Bill Bradley

Engineering is a predictive science, not a manipulative art.

— D. Elton Trueblood

“I’m building a building from scratch, and I’m making it out of a giant itch.”

— Jarod Kintz

You have the insanity that is geo-engineering which is a case in which you say the planet is heating up. Let's spray…

— Jonathon Keats

Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business…

— Ross Perot

When you build a beautiful building, people love it. And the most sustainable building in the world is the one that’s loved.

— Cameron Sinclair

I'm always good at seeing five, ten steps ahead. Like, really thinking ahead, you know? Reverse engineering, whatever it is, you know.

— Michael B. Jordan

The typical project design time for a large company like IBM - and they keep track of this - is a little…

— Bill Gates

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

— Jens Martin Skibsted

Design... is the integration of technological, social, and economical requirements, biological necessities, and the psychological effects of materials, shape, color, volume and…

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

And then, when I went into the Navy, there was no choice. You took about half of the hours during your naval…

— Daniel J. Evans

I don't like building, I'm not a carpenter, I don't like constructions particularly and things like that, but placements and the kinds…

— Julian Schnabel

In a world where concepts are so often deployed in an ad hoc fashion, half explored before being displaced by others, it…

— Marilyn Strathern

“I’m at architecture school at UCLA.” “Ooooh, I love architects. They have such big buildings.” Oh Lord, let the floor open up…

— Valerie Thomas

I am an enthusiast, but not a crank in the sense that I have some pet theories as to the proper construction…

— Wilbur Wright

Nuclear weapons need large facilities, but genetic engineering can be done in a small lab. You can't regulate every lab in the…

— Stephen Hawking

I never designed before. I wasn't formally trained in design, I went to photography school at the ICP. But over time, I…

— Minnie Mortimer

When you advance a frontier and you do tomorrow what's never been done today, you have to innovate to make that happen.…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The best thing that ever happened to me is that nothing happened in writing. I ended up working for engineering companies, and…

— George Saunders

Recreating a song is as good as constructing a new building.

— Tanishk Bagchi

The construction itself is an art, its application to the world an evil parasite.

— L. E. J. Brouwer

Good buildings come from good people, ad all problems are solved by good design.

— Stephen Gardiner

I pick up my pen. It flows. A building appears. There it is. There is nothing more to say.

— Oscar Niemeyer

He must have had a magnificent build before his stomach went in for a career of its own.

— Margaret Halsey

Working within the constraints of a problem is part of the fun and challenge of design.

— Ellen Lupton

Every single life is about construction and destruction.

— Gaspar Noe

Engineering is the closest thing to magic that exists in the world.

— Elon Musk

The single biggest problem in design is finding out from the client what it is that they really want.

— Syd Mead

My father was a construction engineer, and my mother was a production engineer.

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Engineering, I think you can pick up. [A data scientist's] curiosity is built-in

— Scott Nicholson

What made Manhattan Manhattan was the underground infrastructure, that engineering marvel.

— Andrew Cuomo

There is a voice, and there is a DNA to how I design.

— Kelly Wearstler

I was a civil engineer in Sydney, I liked to re-do old houses.

— Bob Christo

I don't see any difference between architecture and engineering. It's the same profession.

— Santiago Calatrava

I want to be a writer, not an engineer who writes books.

— Paulo Coelho