Engineering Quotes · Page 39

I'm fascinated by furniture design and interiors, and I want to try designing all that stuff.

— Prabal Gurung

I never design a building before I've seen the site and met the people who will be using it.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Something I've really enjoyed learning more about is course design.

— Ernie Els

There is in this Universe much of what seems to be design.

— Carl Sagan

“It’s a staircase in a house built by the construction firm of Escher and Sons.”

— Charles Yu

“Building stuff was an ethical act, a way to become more fully human.”

— Jason Fagone

In two days, it's hard to to get the quality you would normally want for a design project.

— Douglas Wilson

A design career is a process of learning better and better what you know instinctively.

— Mario Bellini

I came from product design originally - I had been designing dolls for a toy company since I was 16 - so…

— Jason Wu

As an architect, I learned to think and express myself on flat forms, on paper, and to imagine the contour of the…

— Gianfranco Ferre

Yeah, so I have, like, a YouTube channel where I kind of use my engineering background to make sort of ridiculous things.

— Mark Rober

“Expertise in a subfield was the key to a successful career as an engineer, and expertise was becoming a necessity for the…

— Margot Lee Shetterly

The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires…

— Hubert H. Humphrey

Design is a response to a specific problem. You are given a problem to solve, and then you let the problem itself…

— Chip Kidd

I enjoy feeling physically strong, so maybe I'd like to be able to lift a building and launch it at someone.

— Nikki Reed

Design-wise, I look at everything. If I don't personally design it, I'll review it. I'm kind of creative director of the firm.

— Peter Marino

Engineering problems are under-defined, there are many solutions, good, bad and indifferent. The art is to arrive at a good solution. This…

— Ove Arup

The fundamental purpose of design thinking is to produce something that does not now exist. And so it is with integrative thinking…

— Roger Martin

During the war years I worked on the development of radar and other radio systems for the R.A.F. and, though gaining much…

— Martin Ryle

“started with marketing, which commissioned surveys comparing Wiremold’s products with the offerings of competitors. When an “opportunity” was identified, usually a gap…

— James P. Womack

I really wanna make hip-hop music, but I don't know how to use any of the tools. Electronic, computer skills, I don't…

— Ty Segall

“For us to deem a work of architecture elegant, it is hence not enough that it look simple: we must feel that…

— Alain de Botton

I want labor to be the point, because everything in our lives is miraculously made with no idea of how it's done.…

— Tom Sachs

I want to do very useful buildings and I would like to find a method of producing these buildings through our technology…

— Minoru Yamasaki

Program construction consists of a sequence of refinement steps.

— Niklaus Wirth

Being a language, mathematics may be used not only to inform but also, among other things, to seduce.

— Benoit Mandelbrot

Celebrate the excitement of trying build something new and wonderful.

— Abhijit Banerjee

It's better to build than to buy if you can find the right people.

— Warren Buffett

“Nothing is build, just like that, everything around the world has some value and the purpose.”

— Santosh Kalwar

I believe in the balance between dreaming and building.

— Neri Oxman

The shortest distance between two points is under construction.

— Leo Aikman

“You can only build yourself effectively in the area of your calling”

— Sunday Adelaja

It used to really bug me when they'd send down Mr. Spock to engineering to help me.

— James Doohan

Engineering isn't about perfect solutions; it's about doing the best you can with limited resources.

— Randy Pausch

You can do reverse engineering, but you can’t do reverse hacking.

— Francis Crick

I cannot even open an umbrella properly. How could I ever have been a civil engineering student?

— Paresh Rawal

The design process, at its best, integrates the aspirations of art, science, and culture.

— Jeff Smith

My designs are aimed at fashion conscious urbanites.

— Marc Jacobs

One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null word.

— Robert A. Heinlein

The most expensive part of building is the mistakes.

— Ken Follett