Engineering Quotes · Page 48

Every Porsche is hand-built - one person, one engineer works on the car the entire way through so there's attention to detail…

— Yannick Bisson

I have long aspired to make our company a noble prototype of industry, penetrating in science, reliable in engineering, creative in aesthetics…

— Edwin Land

The way I look at my job, I spend a lot of time trying to create the conditions for good design to…

— Khoi Vinh

When I start, my first idea for a building is with the material. I believe architecture is about that. It's not about…

— Peter Zumthor

“[John] Kobak explained, 'The way you learn anything is that something fails, and you figure out how not to have it fail…

— Robert S. Arrighi

I would encourage anybody who's interested in any kind of science, engineering, math field, to go after that.

— Heidi Hammel

The level of detail and craft is something that's inscribed within the original design concept. And so when I begin to draw,…

— Tadao Ando

Regardless of what the object of design is, humans need design. For anything humans use in their day to day life, they…

— Kenji Ekuan

We live in a world of diverse cultures, and we know very little about social engineering and how to 'build nations.' And…

— Joseph Nye

A man with a talent does what is expected of him, makes his way, constructs, is an engineer, a composer, a builder…

— May Sarton

The monogram of our national initials, which is the symbol for our monetary unit, the dollar, is almost as frequently conjoined to…

— Henry R. Towne

Well, I never studied design and I went to art school to study art, you know, sculpture and things like that, and…

— Marc Newson

I am opposed to the laying down of rules or conditions to be observed in the construction of bridges lest the progress…

— Anonymous

Where in the world have you seen construction people who do everything on time, with good quality and at minimal prices? Just…

— Vladimir Putin

Our model of Nature should not be like a building-a handsome structure for the populace to admire, until in the course of…

— Arthur Eddington

I always knew I wanted to be a technologist, so I went to Duke and got a degree in computer science and…

— Aaron Patzer

At Stanford, we teach 'design thinking' - that is, we put together small, interdisciplinary groups to figure out what the true needs…

— Hasso Plattner

Fundamentally, I am all about finding interesting and authentic ways to incorporate nature into most of my designs.

— Jeremiah Brent

With the advent of genetic engineering the time required for the evolution of new species may literally collapse.

— Dee Hock

Technology may change rapidly, but people change slowly. The principals [of design] come from understanding of people. They remain true forever.

— Donald A. Norman

I like to think about the future and how things can be done better than they are now. That's what engineers do.

— Martin Cooper

I started this career because I loved doing houses. I'd done three of my own and I couldn't keep on moving my…

— Dorothy Draper

The first thing to learn about the deep structure of modern design is that it is relation-seeking and pleasurably so.

— Norman Potter

We get first-rate faculty members from the leading engineering and science institutes to train our people.

— Azim Premji

Real men study law and engineering, while ideas and values are for sissies. The humanities should constitute the core of any university…

— Terry Eagleton

We don't want to be a design line. Ultimately, we want to be a platform that houses many design aesthetics.

— Alexa Hirschfeld

At MakerBot, we joke that if we were engineers we would still be on our first prototype. There's something about just 'Doing…

— Bre Pettis

I'm able to make out the difference in my cricket since I started studying engineering. I can't explain how or why, but…

— Ravichandran Ashwin

“The best atrocity engineering is conducted, thought Albrecht, never so much by the participant, but by the enabler.”

— Kane X. Faucher

Building infrastructure is our most powerful tool to create jobs and improve the playing field for all businesses.

— Conor Lamb

“I’d learned over time that engineers preferred a straightforward question with a quantifiable answer. Open-ended designing, on the other hand, was the…

— B.V. Larson

I think it is important to be present in the places where you are working. It is not only about doing a…

— Santiago Calatrava

The organic laws of construction tangled me in my desires, and only with great pain, effort, and struggle did I break through…

— Wassily Kandinsky

At the fourth grade level, girls at the same percentages of boys say they're interested in careers in engineering or math or…

— Chelsea Clinton

I did a lot of engineering things, like taking apart my brother's model car when I was 10. I also played the…

— Lisa Su

I call myself an experimental philosopher which is as ambiguous a term as comprehensive anticipatory design scientist.

— Jonathon Keats

I was a sheet metal worker, then a metal engineer, then a Pontin's bluecoat, then a comedian. You can achieve anything you…

— Bradley Walsh

The two most important tools an architect has are the eraser in the drawing room and the sledge hammer on the construction…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“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 went to school for audio engineering, and I was around a lot of sound engineers over the summers in New York,…

— Gus Dapperton