Construction will always be needed. You will always need to renovate projects. — Wayne Messam Copy Share Image
My first buildings, when I was about 30, were rejected for aesthetic reasons. — Peter Zumthor Copy Share Image
We want our buildings to work like a machine that will create a pleasurable environment. — Helmut Jahn Copy Share Image
Electricity, water, gas, and steam course through the walls of my building, keeping it alive. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Basically, if reverse engineering is banned, then a lot of the open source community is doomed to fail. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The word design is everything and nothing. The design and the product itself are inseparable. — Jonathan Ive Copy Share Image
Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition. — Freeman Thomas Copy Share Image
A lot of the work in, say, construction or restaurants involves visual and motor flexibility. It also requires adaptability, in terms of… — David Autor Copy Share Image
“Life is the art of finding or building a bridge with a great determination every time you come across a precipice!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
You could say that I had become possessed, in the classical sense, by the art of the great architects of the past.… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
I'm not an engineer. I did not study engineering in school. But I was a super ambitious student growing up. — Simone Giertz Copy Share Image
Trying to determine the structure of a protein by UV spectroscopy was like trying to determine the structure of a piano by… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
Anything which is physically possible can always be made financially possible; money is a bugaboo of small minds. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Everything we do is designed, whether we're producing a magazine, a website, or a bridge. Design is really the creative invention that… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
Engineering is the art of managing scarcity - it's easy to design and build a massive bridge that will last forever if… — Joe Lonsdale Copy Share Image
“The Founder-Director purposely designed the building in a U-shape, in the interior of which is a courtyard with a central fountain, to… — Wan Mohd Nor Wan Daud Copy Share Image
At the height of Iraq's clandestine nuclear weapons program, which nearly succeeded in building a bomb in 1991, Tuwaitha incorporated research reactors,… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
The required techniques of effective reasoning are pretty formal, but as long as programming is done by people that don't master them,… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
We live in a society that penalizes highly creative individuals for their non-conformist autonomy. This makes the teaching of problem solving in… — Victor Papanek Copy Share Image
“Although not exceptional in ways we once believed, we remain exceptionally good at building tools and machines. And that includes machines that… — Robert W. Fuller Copy Share Image
When Chuck House wanted to develop the oscilloscope for HP, David Packard told him to abandon the project. Chuck went on "vacation"… — Bob Sutton Copy Share Image
Crossrail is a prime example of infrastructure. It is a rather deadly word, but I think it is exciting stuff, the civil… — Evan Davis Copy Share Image
I became an engineer because I believe in the power of technology to enrich our lives. — Craig Federighi Copy Share Image
“Two of the most important characteristics of good design are discoverability and understanding.” — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
For the future, primarily, we must educate people in science, engineering, technology and math. — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
“Standard engineering delivers artifacts; exploratory engineering delivers knowledge.” — K. Eric Drexler Copy Share Image
I did graduate with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1948. — Daniel J. Evans Copy Share Image
The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double logarithmic diagram. — Thomas Koenig Copy Share Image
Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We make our buildings and afterwards they make us. They regulate the course of our lives. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Writers acquire their technique by spotting, savoring, and reverse-engineering examples of good prose. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I'm trying to get some building work done at the moment, quite seriously. Be careful. — Adrian Chiles Copy Share Image
