Engineering Quotes · Page 32

An education is like a crumbling building that needs constant upkeep with repairs and additions.

— Edith Wharton

For every scientific (or engineering) action, there is an equal and opposite social reaction.

— Norman Ralph Augustine

Writing code is not production, it's not always craftsmanship though it can be, it's design.

— Joel Spolsky

Anyone with an engineering frame of mind will look at [accounting standards] and want to throw up.

— Charlie Munger

Before starting a building project, it is wise to discuss your plans in full with the neighbours.

— Robert Rinder

“neighborhood was filled with engineers from Hewlett-Packard, then as now one of”

— Malcolm Gladwell

“What separates design from art is that design is meant to be... functional . ”

— Cameron Moll

Design is more of a kitchen than a knife, and more of a lab than a beaker.

— Arman

Design is not the act of amazing an audience with the novelty of forms or materials; it is the originality that repeatedly…

— Kenya Hara

Indeed, our designs become more ambitious as we see the new possibilities created by the technology of other industries.

— Zaha Hadid

In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way…

— Bjarke Ingels

You cut a hole in the building and people can look inside and see the way other people really lived.. it's making…

— Gordon Matta-Clark

I built bridges and worked for the army and SAS in Vietnam and Zimbabwe. I also sold watches and Jaguars in the…

— Bob Christo

“People love to design and create things, whether clothing, creatures, buildings, cities, or planets. They also love to customize a basic template…

— Ernest Adams

A lot of people think that all the things that could be invented have been invented. But we are just on the…

— Dick Rutan

Jobs are disappearing from every sector of the economy, from engineering to health care workers, forcing hundreds of thousands of families into…

— Jerry Costello

I went to engineering school, which I thought was what I wanted to do, for about two weeks. We had an orientation…

— Evan Glodell

The science of design, or of line-drawing, if you like to use this term, is the source and very essence of painting,…

— Michelangelo

In fact, the science of thermodynamics began with an analysis, by the great engineer Sadi Carnot, of the problem of how to…

— Richard P. Feynman

To every bushel of the powdered cement add one bushel of sand, mix them together and pass them through a sieve, then…

— Canvass White

Homes are always a reflection of the people in them, my whole job is to understand the psychology of the family I…

— Sussanne Khan

At their best, at their most creative, science and engineering are attributes of liberty-noble expressions of man's God-given right to investigate and…

— David Sarnoff

We don't have a good language to talk about this kind of thing. In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer... But to…

— Steve Jobs

The primary cause of disorder and lawlessness today, as throughout history, is the poverty of the many in contrast to the affluence…

— Louis O. Kelso

Scientists build to learn; Engineers learn to build.

— Fred Brooks

Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be

— Curtis W. Fentress

The English truly understand the dynamic between buildings and land.

— Nicholas Haslam

The letter e may now no longer be used to denote anything other than this positive universal constant.

— Edmund Landau

By training, I'm an engineer, but I don't tell anyone because it bores people.

— Marcel Wanders

Beautiful engineering always held a fascination for me.

— David Linley

Design implies a sense of mapping something out and then you follow the plan.

— Andy Goldsworthy

I want to build something I’d be happy to be employed by 10 years out.

— David Karp

Science can amuse and fascinate us all, but it is engineering that changes the world.

— Isaac Asimov

Decisions are the frequent fabric of our daily design.

— Don Yaeger

Designing is not a profession but an attitude... Thinking in relationships.

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

A lot of what we are doing is getting design out of the way.

— Jonathan Ive

I happen to love buildings, and my passion is bringing people together.

— Adam Neumann

I am good at conceptualizing and building institutions.

— Shiv Nadar

If I weren't involved with food, I'd be working in architecture. Design is that critical to me.

— Alice Waters

Without mechanical every branch of engineering is incomplete.

— Salunke Sachin