It's an ancient and honorable term for the final step in any engineering project. Turn it on, see if it smokes. — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
You don't build it for yourself. You know what the people want and you build it for them. — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
If you're lucky, and a building succeeds, the real product has many more dimensions than you can ever imagine. You have the… — Peter Zumthor Copy Share Image
Designs are a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life. — Geoffrey Beene Copy Share Image
“What would the engineer say, after you had explained your problem and enumerated all of the dissastisfactions in your life? He would… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Design is about crafting an experience that is unfamiliar enough to feel novel, yet familiar enough to instill confidence. — John Maeda Copy Share Image
Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
“You are designing for people the way you would like them to be, not for the way they really are.” When” — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
When you advance a frontier and you do tomorrow what's never been done today, you have to innovate to make that happen.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
I don't think of design as a job. I think of it as - and I hate to use this term for… — Paula Scher Copy Share Image
The most troublesome problem which confronts social engineering is how to provide for the untalented and, what is equally important, how to… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The future of design is a future where anything material in the environment - whether it's wearables, cars, buildings - can be… — Neri Oxman Copy Share Image
Russia and China also cooperate in mechanical engineering, high-speed railway transportation, lumber processing, nuclear energy production and so on. We have built… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
When I came out of Stanford, I looked at my brilliant classmates, who were going into Wall Street high finance, Silicon Valley,… — Jeff Bewkes Copy Share Image
Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest of all the arts. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“A great building must begin with the immeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed, and in the end… — Louis Kahn Copy Share Image
The Victorians were great engineers. They engineered a [schooling] system that was so robust that it's still with us today, continuously producing… — Sugata Mitra Copy Share Image
The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
I'm a mechanical engineer, and I grew up on a farm, so I like practical hardware - somebody's elegant solution that proves… — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image