Engineering Quotes · Page 27

Good design is partially creativity and innovation, but primarily knowledge and awareness.

— Chuck Green

Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design.

— Christopher Alexander

Design is a very personal thing. It's like art. Your personal choice plays a big role.

— Gauri Khan

Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it.

— William F. Buckley, Jr

Good design is probably something that has been thoroughly thought through to a point of resolution.

— David Linley

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

— Grayson Perry

Eight-man teams drilling expansion bolts in rocks? Sorry, that's not climbing - that's engineering.

— Jeff Lowe

It's all about the money. Write a check, and you can build anything you want.

— Greg Brenneman

It has been said that an engineer is a man who can do for ten shillings what any fool can do for…

— Nevil Shute

I always say prepare to be a coach to anybody who wants to be a coach. At 24 years of age when…

— Alex Ferguson

The heel is engineering in itself. This little thing that supports the human weight has to have a precise balance.

— Christian Louboutin

Social engineering is using deception, manipulation and influence to convince a human who has access to a computer system to do something,…

— Kevin Mitnick

First I was going to be a football player, then after that try to study medicine or engineering. But it was very…

— Manuel Pellegrini

To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class?…

— Charles Eames

“Politics is an art and not a science, and what is required for its mastery is not the rationality of the engineer…

— Hans J. Morgenthau

“In engineering, the joints are the most crucial. They have to be both firm and flexible, exactly like the joints in our…

— Haresh Sippy

As I considered the matter carefully it gradually came to light that all those matters only were referred to mathematics in which…

— Rene Descartes

My two Jamaican cousins ... were studying engineering. 'That's where the money is,' Mom advised. ... I was to be an engineering…

— Colin Powell

One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you…

— Stephen Hawking

Designers are by nature more inquisitive, more connected. They dig a little deeper in terms of insights. They turn those insights into…

— Mark Parker

When I design the clothes, I have a very good team around me, showing me different pieces and cuts. I'm very involved…

— Tiesto

It's true that to speak of an ethic of giftedness, which is very much the ethic that I deploy in raising questions…

— Michael Sandel

This is one of my favorites. People think of creativity as this sort of unbridled thing, but engineers thrive on constraints. They…

— Marissa Mayer

But, contrary to the lady's prejudices about the engineering profession, the fact is that quite some time ago the tables were turned…

— Nicholas Metropolis

Purpose is not necessary to make a building beautiful.

— Philip Johnson

Perhaps I'd like to design cars, but I don't think I'd be much good at it.

— Jonathan Ive

I'm not building a game. I'm building a new country.

— Philip Rosedale

Really great design is hard. Good is the enemy of great,

— Jonathan Ive

Dude, my hair is like an architectural structure. It’s like… a building.

— Taylor Swift

Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.

— Charles Eames

“Why climb the corporate ladder when you can build an elevator in your own building?”

— Joshua E. Leyenhorst

I often get asked if I think I'm ever going to build something useful, and maybe someday I will.

— Simone Giertz

Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.

— Larry Wall

“Designs belong to individual designers; Architecture belongs to communities of practice. We”

— Peter Lucas

Don't design your back yard from the outside looking in. Design from your window looking out.

— Janet Macunovich

I feel I'm a hammer to the construction worker that is the filmmaker.

— Cuba Gooding, Jr

“Before you get out of the building, get out of your comfort zone.”

— Rodrigo Martinez RMentrepreneur

Since an early age, I’ve been intrigued by the idea of design evolution,

— Phillip Lim

You want to have a good cake? Get two engineers to build it.

— Allison Schroeder

When any great design thou dost intend, Think on the means, the manner, and the end.

— John Denham