Engineering Quotes · Page 3

Be proud guys

— Prabhu Sampath

I like building.

— Ross Levinsohn

To build is to be robbed.

— Samuel Johnson

To build is to dwell.

— Maxine Kumin

Design is people.

— Jane Jacobs

I want to build a legacy.

— Gervonta Davis

A mechanic is just an engineer in blue jeans.

— Daniel H. Wilson

Product design is fed by the avant-garde.

— Cornelia Parker

Fundamentals are the building blocks of fun.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

An algorithm must be seen to be believed.

— Donald Knuth

Good design is ubiquitous and forever.

— Massimo Vignelli

I wish someone would ask me to design a cathedral.

— Philip Johnson

In design, be logical, search for truth, be clear.

— Massimo Vignelli

Buildings should not look like Lady Gaga.

— Robert A. M. Stern

“If you're not having fun you have the design wrong”

— Geoff Lawton

Design is a career where you learn creative decision making.

— Biz Stone

Architecture is about public space held by buildings.

— Richard Rogers

When I'm designing I try to think about what I like to see on other people.

— Dwyane Wade

Design is an iterative process. One idea often builds on another.

— Mark Parker

People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train.

— Marc Newson

What people don't know is art was my deal and engineering was my sidebar.

— Ed Dwight

In order to build chemistry you've got to really know one another.

— Sean McDermott

I described the euro as a burning building with no exits and so it has proved for some of the countries in…

— William Hague

The first thing that an architect must do is to sense that every building you build is a world of its own,…

— Louis Kahn

All I ever really work for is to be a really good engineer, a good producer, a good executive, good in the…

— Jimmy Iovine

“…young people unskilled in mathematics, addled by credit cards, and weaned on so-called intelligent design...will somehow retool American science for another generation…

— Kevin Phillips

If it weren't for the people always getting tangled up with the machinery... Earth would be an engineer's paradise.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Styles come and go, design goes on forever: solving communication problems with new tools applied to the same old common sense.

— Ivan Chermayeff

I've always loved maths, so in college when I started engineering, I had applied math and I really liked it, so I…

— Momina Mustehsan

I admire Miken's exceptional engineering capabilities and was drawn to their passion for hockey and drive to be the best in all…

— Brett Hull

A failed structure provides a counterexample to a hypothesis and shows us incontrovertibly what cannot be done, while a structure that stands…

— Henry Petroski

“Ask a Soviet engineer to design a pair of shoes and he’ll come up with something that looks like the boxes that…

— Neal Stephenson

Corporate engineers have looked at how women are with each other, borrowing the best tips from female neighborhood culture and then transporting…

— Arlie Russell Hochschild

I ... have two vocations: chess and engineering. If I played chess only, I believe that my success would not have been…

— Mikhail Botvinnik

I studied to be an architect. And I find tremendous similarities between building a company and the design process. Businesses have to…

— John Katzman

There is a strong reciprocal relationship whereby our more ambitious design visions encourage the continuing development of the new digital technologies and…

— Zaha Hadid

I'm involved in everything from highly progressive lighting systems to airline interiors. In the field of transportation I can go from the…

— Ross Lovegrove

There's no slow build anymore where you get a little part, then you get a little better part, then a better part,…

— Ellen Barkin

Design is everything. Everything!

— Paul Rand

“Fiction is life by design.”

— Mary Kittredge