Engineering Quotes · Page 40

Man is a creative animal, doomed to strive toward a goal, engaged in full-time engineering.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.

— Alan Cooper

To be truthful, not much 'engineering' goes into the ShamWow!

— Vince Offer

The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.

— Thomas a Kempis

I’m here to build something for the long-term. Anything else is a distraction.

— Mark Zuckerberg

Design must be proved before a designer can be inferred.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Haji Ali taught me to...slow down and make building relationships as important as building projects.”

— Greg Mortenson

Love creates bridges much more than all the engineers of the world!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

It turns out that, if you want to know what the U.S. military is doing in Africa, it's advantageous to be connected…

— Nick Turse

I spent almost 25 years at Qualcomm before joining Microsoft, so in a sense, I grew up at one company. During that…

— Peggy Johnson

I was the CEO of Justin.tv, and my cofounders were senior engineers there. We came up with the idea at Justin.tv in…

— Michael Seibel

I was taking chemical engineering. But I went into the army after that. When I came out of the army, I was…

— Mose Allison

Everything that I do has a certain mechanical logic to it, and follows my definition of design--which is function with cultural content.

— Carl Magnusson

My dad insisted I got a trade. He had a plumbing business. So you are looking at a qualified heating engineer.

— Colin McRae

I don't know why I always liked aerospace engineering. I was in the 10th grade when I figured that's what I wanted…

— Kalpana Chawla

“Designing is best done first on paper. It's cheap and fast, making it easy to try many ideas well before anyone's ego…

— Berkun, Scott

I am a former engineer and I was really excited about the possibility of building better technology to serve humanity. A lot…

— Ramesh Srinivasan

I got into architecture because I was searching for a way to produce in the world. I went to art school and…

— David Adjaye

Whatever comes to us in life we create first in our mentality. As the building is a reality in all its details…

— Orison Swett Marden

I've always been an engineer devoted to the potential of advanced technologies. Like most engineers, I have a keen sense of curiosity…

— Min Kao

Sloppy language and sloppy ways go together. Those who are truly educated have learned more than the sciences, the humanities, law, engineering,…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

It's [programming] the only job I can think of where I get to be both an engineer and an artist. There's an…

— Andy Hertzfeld

I'm completely taken and impressed by the planning authority of Singapore and its Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA). It's the most cutting-edge agency…

— Moshe Safdie

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

— Fritz Todt

Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process.

— Arthur Erickson

Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation

— Steve Jobs

I know what I am doing with my handbag design and clothing design.

— Tinsley Mortimer

Software engineering is not about right and wrong but only better and worse

— Ellen Ullman

We don't build,' I said to my son, 'we just destroy.

— Bernard Cornwell

“If you don't build your dream someone else will hire you to help build theirs.”

— Tony Gaskins

We make our buildings, and then our buildings make and shape us.

— Winston Churchill

I wouldn't build a building if it wasn't of interest to me as a potential work of art. Why should I?

— Philip Johnson

“The best engineer in the world can’t build a 10-story sandcastle.”

— Pat Dorsey

No design is possible until the materials with which you design are completely understood

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Good design is a lot like clear thinking made visual.

— Edward Tufte

Aviation is the branch of engineering that is least forgiving of mistakes.

— Freeman Dyson

You have to have great design to be competitive in today’s markets.

— John Doerr

I think the ethics and morals of genetic engineering are very complicated. It intrigues me.

— Roger Spottiswoode

“Engineering is not only study of 45 subjects but it is moral studies of intellectual life.”

— Prakhar Srivastav

No effect that requires more than 10 percent accuracy in measurement is worth investigating.

— Walther Nernst