Engineering Quotes · Page 41

The shortest distance between two points is under construction.

— Leo Aikman

Build on the rock before you hit rock bottom!

— John Bytheway

In the evenings the art of building gave way to that of music, which is architecture, too, though invisible.

— Marguerite Yourcenar

It's all about the money. Write a check, and you can build anything you want.

— Greg Brenneman

The happiness of building lasted but a little while, for though I love to spend, I hate to be cheated; and I…

— Samuel Johnson

Having a good idea is one thing, but persuading other people to buy it is quite another. Good inventors are polymaths: they…

— James Dyson

I hate the idea of getting in a building that someone else has designed and having to do something to it yourself…

— Sean Booth

Biotech and geo engineering have the same mindset, of engineering, of power, of control, of mastery of nature.

— Vandana Shiva

We can engineer a building and design a building with least reliance on active machinery to make it inhabitable.

— Bjarke Ingels

I've always loved maths, so in college when I started engineering, I had applied math and I really liked it, so I…

— Momina Mustehsan

We have lots to learn in India when it comes to design, and that includes me! I'm constantly learning; that never stops.

— Gauri Khan

“The mission of design thinking is to translate observations into insights and insights into products and services that will improve lives. Empathy”

— Tim Brown

I'm trying to build a brand.

— Trina

All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to the architecture,…

— Tadao Ando

There are professions more harmful than industrial design but only a few of them

— Victor Papanek

Movies are a powerful medium. People think you are your character. I've had plenty of people who think I'm Drago. They don't…

— Dolph Lundgren

I venture on assuring you that I regard the design formed by you and your friends with sincere interest, and in particular…

— William E. Gladstone

Flexibility makes buildings to be stronger, imagine what it can do to your soul.

— Carlos Barrios

The building art is, in reality, always the spatial execution of spiritual decisions. It is bound to its times and manifests itself…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Architecture is not all about the design of the building and nothing else, it is also about the cultural setting and the…

— Michael Graves

My design is organic, I don't control architecture, I grow it

— Marco Casagrande

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

— Jason Wu

If you're serious about being an architect, you've got to learn how to take responsibility. It's not fluff. You have to do…

— Frank Gehry

[The] dynamics of computational artifacts extend beyond the interface narrowly defined, to relations of people with each other and to the place…

— Lucy Suchman

I think I finally chose the graduate degree in engineering primarily because it only took one year and law school took three…

— Daniel J. Evans