Engineering Quotes · Page 53

“[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

For every design goal you have, you have to have a corresponding measurement to know how you're doing - a way of…

— Tristan Harris

My mom loves interior design.

— Camila Morrone

There has been a substitution of ideology for fact and scientific and engineering data in this administration.

— Anonymous

The design of everyday things is in great danger of becoming the design of superfluous, overloaded, unnecessary things.

— Donald A. Norman

When we hire someone, even if they are going to be in marketing, I will have them talk to the design folks…

— Steve Jobs

Industrialization of the building trade is a question of material. Hence the demand for a new building material is the first prerequisite.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Since I was a kid, I've liked to see how things are done. Sometimes when you see how things are done, it's…

— Michel Gondry

Think good design is expensive? Just wait and see what bad design ends up costing you.

— Anonymous

“design thinking requires bridging the “knowing-doing gap.” The tools of the design thinker—getting out into the world to be inspired by people,…

— Tim Brown

A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories. Over the main entrance the words, CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE, and, in…

— Aldous Huxley

An undertaking of great magnitude and importance, the successful accomplishment of which, in so comparatively short a period, notwithstanding the unheard of…

— John By

Design has always been a driving force in my life: it's the lens through which I experience the world.

— Joe Gebbia

I own and operate a busy construction and renovation company and, of course, there are the occasional hiccups on site - more…

— Bryan Baeumler

Building software implies various stages of planning, preparation and execution that vary in kind and degree depending on what's being built. [...]…

— Steve McConnell

I've never seen a job being done by a five-hundred-person engineering team that couldn't be done better by fifty people.

— Gordon Bell

A mechanic is just an engineer in blue jeans.

— Daniel H. Wilson

I don't think about an industry or building things, but somebody says you're lucky if you find something you like to do,…

— James Patterson

I was an engineering student and spent a lot of time in the library, and no one applauds when you finish your…

— Andre Braugher

I was always fascinated by technology and wanted to understand it so when I went to UCLA I studied electrical engineering figuring…

— Michael Morhaime

Design is everything.

— William Merritt Chase

I'm more of an engineer with a law degree than I am a lawyer with an engineering degree in terms of how…

— Ken Cuccinelli

I think people are realizing that engineering and science are extremely good degrees to get and you'll be very highly paid once…

— James Dyson

I'm not a builder of buildings, I'm a builder of collections.

— Leonard Lauder

Indeed, the most important part of engineering work-and also of other scientific work-is the determination of the method of attacking the problem,…

— Charles Proteus Steinmetz

“Three bricklayers were working on the same building. When asked what they were doing, the first answered grumpily, “I’m laying bricks.” The…

— Christy Wright

I come from a long line of architects. I'm the only one who did not become an architect, but I've been around…

— Kym Whitley

Basically, if I have no intention of using a service then I won't bother reverse-engineering it.

— Anonymous

All the food we eat, whether Brussels sprouts or pork bellies, has been modified by mankind. Genetic engineering is only one particularly…

— Michael Specter

The biggest engineering companies, like Schlumberger, Halliburton and others, have technology they spent billions of dollars developing.

— Vagit Alekperov

Whatever is done by design is always overdone.

— Charlotte Lennox

Today when a man gets married he gets a home, a housekeeper, a cook, a cheering squad and another paycheck. When a…

— Duke of Wellington

A building is no good if someone's got to explain to you why it's good. You can't say you don't know enough…

— David Chipperfield

Shall I refuse my dinner because I do not fully understand the process of digestion?

— Oliver Heaviside

Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it.

— James Dyson

“Apple’s products were conceived around a kitchen table that Ive had set up in the industrial design studio.”

— Yukari Iwatani Kane

The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the 'engineering of consent' by one of the founders of the modern…

— Noam Chomsky

In other words, each piece of the building must look as though it was designed for that particular building.

— Minoru Yamasaki

Where we're standing right now, in the ruins in the dark, what we build could be anything.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Design must be an innovative, highly creative, cross-disciplinary tool responsive to the needs of men. It must be more research-oriented, and we…

— Victor Papanek