Engineering Quotes · Page 28

Most of the work performed by a development engineer results in failure.

— Koichi Tanaka

Engineering is achieving function while avoiding failure.

— Henry Petroski

In a few wretched buildings, we created a whole new industry with international significance.

— Edwin Land

Flexibility makes buildings to be stronger, imagine what it can do to your soul.

— Carlos Barrios

If the acting don't work out, I'll have a future in construction.

— Anthony Mackie

In software design, it's all about making a guess, trying it, and then learning from the experience.

— Stewart Butterfield

If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.

— Noam Chomsky

Design is defined by light and shade, and appropriate lighting is enormously important.

— Albert Hadley

Modern building has become so universally conditioned by optimized technology that the possibility of creating significant urban form has become extremely limited.

— Kenneth Frampton

I just love building buildings. I'm the largest developer in New York City. I'm having a lot of fun doing it. I…

— Donald Trump

We need all hands on deck, and that means clearing hurdles for women and girls as they navigate careers in science, technology,…

— Michelle Obama

You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in…

— Ken Robinson

The most rewarding, insightful and challenging year of my life was my 'Year in Industry' working as a trainee engineer at Black…

— Steph McGovern

In our case, I, a working engineer, inventor and scientist, am bringing new innovation to campaigning to enable a grass-roots movement.

— Shiva Ayyadurai

I think a craft becomes an art form when the space of possible solutions becomes so huge that engineering can't carry you…

— Bill Budge

I reckon that the Bailey Bridge and the bulldozer were the greatest advances in military engineering in the years between World War…

— Christopher Vokes

The Commonwealth of Learning is not at this time without Master-Builders, whose mighty Designs, in advancing the Sciences, will leave lasting Monuments…

— John Locke

My father describes himself as a Pole of Lithuanian descent. At Southampton University, he read aeronautical engineering and then the family moved…

— Mel Giedroyc

There's a lot of buzz words in the business world these days - Design thinking, innovation, fast-failure, disruption, cross-functional leadership - and…

— Mel Robbins

I enjoy construction and the process of building things, so maybe I'd be a developer of some kind - residential and commercial.…

— Sean Hayes

I believe that the time has arrived for medical investigation of the problems of manned rocket flight, for it will not be…

— Wernher von Braun

If you're talking to an architect, he can look at a blank piece of paper, and once the initial design is there,…

— Ryan Tedder

Engineers do engineering, i.e. they build bridges. So engineering needs engineers. The economy does NOT need economists. Economists do not make economy,…

— Steve Keen

All my days are themed. Monday is managementTuesday is product, engineering, and design. Wednesday is marketing, growth, and communications. Thursday is partnership…

— Jack Dorsey

Design is all about learning from doing, that’s how we evolve to the best solution.

— Tim Brown

That which builds is better than that which is built.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I got my undergraduate degree in chemical engineering.

— Leroy Chiao

We're not just building a Temple here, the Lord is building us.

— Joseph Smith, Jr

Design must seduce, shape, and perhaps more importantly, evoke an emotional response.

— April Greiman

During high school, I wanted to work in architecture or engineering for no particular reason.

— Ji Chang-wook

I record everything myself, I engineer everything myself.

— Nita Strauss

I'm fearless when it comes to engineering and motors and gears and pulleys and glass and artwork.

— Douglas Trumbull

Relativity teaches us the connection between the different descriptions of one and the same reality.

— Albert Einstein

Every Man is the Architect of his own Fortunes, but the Neighbours superintend the Construction.

— George Ade

We never could design a building as beautiful as the trees.

— Pietro Belluschi

I am extremely involved in the design process of both my brands, Winter Kate and House of Harlow 1960.

— Nicole Richie

Industrial design keeps the customer happy, his client in the black and the designer busy.

— Raymond Loewy

I was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and from an early age was interested in technology and engineering.

— Mike Krieger

“Anyone who doesn’t design, accepts to be designed.”

— Giulio Carlo Argan

Design is as much an act of spacing as an act of marking.

— Ellen Lupton