Engineering Quotes · Page 46

A building is not something you finish. A building is something you start.

— Stewart Brand

I studied hard and completed my engineering. And I also pursued music that was my passion.

— Badshah

An engineer can do for a dollar what any fool can do for two

— Anonymous

One man's magic is another man's gluey torture session.

— Jackie Earle Haley

I'm still really into set design and construction when I do films. I notice that stuff.

— John Ratzenberger

You can be a mason and build 50 buildings, but it doesn't mean you can design one.

— John Malkovich

Good work in the building of my vessel stood me always in good stead.

— Joshua Slocum

Building cars is highly specialized, it's hard, and it's capital intensive.

— Karl Iagnemma

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

— Brianna Wu

The tall modern office building is the machine pure and simple...the engine, the motor and the battleship the works of the century.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

You may include things you believe to be crucial in a design, but those elements are often only crucial to you.

— Hillman Curtis

My background is in physics, so I was the mission specialist, who is sort of like the flight engineer on an airplane.

— Sally Ride

“With commitment and vision, it is possible to build a bridge between potential partners and communities whose work is of relevance to…

— Widad Akrawi

A building is a human being's space and the background for his dignity and its exterior should reflect its contents and function

— Gottfried Bohm

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Listening, Testing, Coding, Designing. That's all there is to software. Anyone who tells you different is selling something.

— Kent Beck

Design is important. I spend much of my working life as a designer. But how can you design for materials if you…

— David Linley

We are reaping the fruits of ten thousand, fifty thousand years of sowing of the fields of mind. And it is being…

— Terence McKenna

We are no longer teaching young people to make things that are beautiful and of very high quality. We are not giving…

— David Linley

“I have been branded with folly and madness for attempting what the world calls impossibilities, and even from the great engineer, the…

— Richard Trevithick

I try to do everything from thinking about big issues like how a building fits into the larger stream of architectural history…

— Paul Goldberger

“Full metal components machined in one piece: chooses aircraft grade aluminium, CNC processing technology, compact light weight design make it the perfect…

— GGMM Nightingale Deep Heavy Bass Headphone

Nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century exponents of prefabrication were certain it would supplant age-old traditions of individualized design and handcrafted construction. The building art…

— Martin Filler

“Homi Bhabha is just 30 years. He is a mechanical engineer by training. Like the electron he will talk about, he made…

— P.V. Manoranjan Rao

“Engineering is the art and science of nuts and bolts.”

— Haresh Sippy

“I told them that the form of a building must follow its function".”

— Ayn Rand

I'm quite into the idea of engineering being beautiful.

— Sean Booth

Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“I met Kafka and he jumped over a building to get away from me.”

— Peter Orlovsky

I originally went to school for engineering because I loved math and thought I liked science.

— Christina Tosi

I'd love to be part of the process of building cars.

— Bubba Watson

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

— Donald Judd

We have the largest digital design studio in the world.

— Pierre Nanterme

“engineers have used technology to improve technology.”

— Anonymous

Progress is cumulative in science and engineering, but cyclical in finance.

— James Grant

The details are not the details. They make the design.

— Charles Eames

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

— Larry Brilliant

A classic engineering mistake and one I've made is confusing what is hard and what is valuable.

— Max Levchin

Engineering is a jeans and hoodie culture, and sales is more formal.

— Susan Wojcicki

There are professions more harmful than industrial design, but only a few.

— Victor Papanek