Engineering Quotes · Page 46

Since an early age, I’ve been intrigued by the idea of design evolution,

— Phillip Lim

There is no one area of chemical engineering that specifically helped me in my career as an astronaut, it was more the…

— Leroy Chiao

I say this as an engineer: We are profoundly bad at asking ourselves how the things we build could be misused.

— Brianna Wu

That which builds is better than that which is built.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

For me writing is as close to being an engineer as possible.

— Guy Kawasaki

“...the Office's prime approach to architecture... is one of continuous ANTICIPATORY DESIGN.”

— Cedric Price

If a chair or a building is not functional … it is ridiculous.

— Donald Judd

The Aga Khan Award for Architecture seeks to make a better place in physical terms. This means trying to bring values into…

— Aga Khan IV

The letter e may now no longer be used to denote anything other than this positive universal constant.

— Edmund Landau

You have everything you need to build something far bigger than yourself.

— Seth Godin

Failure is central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation. Successful engineering is all about understanding…

— Henry Petroski

The typical project design time for a large company like IBM - and they keep track of this - is a little…

— Bill Gates

There are people who design buildings that are not technically and financially good, and there are those who do. Two categories -…

— Frank Gehry

The goal of design is to raise the expectation of what design can be

— Paula Scher

Many of the issues we face in dealing with rapid climate change are well suited to an engineering mind.

— Larry Brilliant

“It's not about avoiding ai, it's about delegating menial tasks to ai - fire, steam, electricity, internet, ai, these are all tools,…

— Abhijit Naskar

I think a craft becomes an art form when the space of possible solutions becomes so huge that engineering can't carry you…

— Bill Budge

Design can have such a positive impact on the way people live and on their relationships and moods.

— Genevieve Gorder

You didn't build that! Somebody else made that happen!

— Barack Obama

The ultimate aim of all creative activity is the building!

— Walter Gropius

Interior design wasn't something I rushed into.

— Gauri Khan

Science is about knowing; engineering is about doing.

— Henry Petroski

Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition.

— Freeman Thomas

The design of the building addresses the public nature of both the urban context and the internal program. In order to reinforce…

— Michael Graves

Let's say there was a burning building and you could rush in and you could save only one thing: either the last…

— Woody Allen