Engineering Quotes · Page 37

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

— John Denham

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

— Koichi Tanaka

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

— Albert Hadley

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

— Noam Chomsky

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

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

— April Greiman

I know what the world exists for, but I know not how it came into existence. I see the design, but not…

— Kedar Joshi

To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing for 10 shillings what any fool can do for…

— Duke of Wellington

I can contribute to the field of music, I would not have been able to contribute to the field of engineering.

— Anupam Roy

I was always fascinated by technology and wanted to understand it so when I went to UCLA I studied electrical engineering figuring…

— Michael Morhaime

The external appearance of any construction projects that are created during the time of the National Socialist Reich must take on the…

— Fritz Todt

But just as elevators have changed the shape of buildings and cars have changed the shape of cities, bits will change the…

— Nicholas Negroponte

I don't think about an industry or building things, but somebody says you're lucky if you find something you like to do,…

— James Patterson

Mediocre design provably wastes the world's resources, corrupts the environment, affects international competitiveness. Design is important.

— Fred Brooks

Statistics is, or should be, about scientific investigation and how to do it better, but many statisticians believe it is a branch…

— George E. P. Box

Civil Engineering is the art of directing the great sources of Power in Nature for the use and convenience of man; being…

— Thomas Tredgold

You had to make a camera look like it's traveling at 300 mph, but you couldn't make it actually travel at 300…

— John Dykstra

The tall building, concentrating man in one place more densely than ever before, similarly concentrates the dilemma of our public architecture at…

— Martin Filler

“think of it.' said Robert Rosenbluth, a doctor whose acquaintance i made at the start of this book. 'no engineer could design…

— Mary Roach

With the subsequent strong support from cybernetics , the concepts of systems thinking and systems theory became integral parts of the established…

— Fritjof Capra

“Commander Lebedev wrote—‘After a communication session we invited Flight Engineer Savitskaya to the heavily laden table. We gave Sveta a blue floral…

— Dan Simmons

“The aim of forest garden design is to make the relationships as co-operative as possible, while acknowledging that very few plants will…

— Patrick Whitefield

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

— Joseph Smith, Jr

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

— Ji Chang-wook

That which builds is better than that which is built.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I got my undergraduate degree in chemical engineering.

— Leroy Chiao

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

— Tim Brown

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

— Nicole Richie

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

— Pietro Belluschi

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

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

Social Engineering - The art of replacing what works with what sounds good.

— Thomas Sowell

I love that our engineers are first and foremost 'Instagram' users.

— Mike Krieger

Science is about knowing; engineering is about doing.

— Henry Petroski

“In engineering colleges, they have seating plans...And Students have cheating plans.”

— Lovely Goyal

Almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it.

— David Foster Wallace