Engineering Quotes · Page 59

Good engineering is characterized by gradual, stepwise refinement of products that yields increased performance under given constraints and with given resources.

— Niklaus Wirth

I have people working together, doing different things: architecture, art installation, photography, publishing, and curatorial works and design.

— Ai Weiwei

I've done eight grades of piano training from Trinity College and also done my sound engineering course.

— Anirudh Ravichander

I wanted to develop a career where I could use my engineering background to have a positive effect on society.

— Frances Arnold

Just because you are an architect and make decent buildings does not mean that you can suddenly become a set designer for…

— Frank Gehry

Shoes are by far the most complicated thing to bring to market. It's not just design. You need engineering.

— Kenneth Cole

Character is built out of circumstances. From exactly the same materials, one man builds palaces, while another builds hovels.

— George Henry Lewes

In the broad sense design means thinking about what the function or purpose of things or processes are, and translating that into…

— Howard Rheingold

Some says that genetic engineering is within the scope of the God! Well, it was so, that area would have been encircled…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

When you are having fun and creating something you love, it shows in the product. So when a woman is sifting through…

— Tom Ford

Architecture is not about designing somehting from a free, fanciful idea. It is about discovering and establishing one's own principle, some kind…

— Shigeru Ban

“No foreign architect of stature, such as I. M. Pei, resides in Japan. Foreign architects come to Japan on short-term contracts, erect…

— Alex Kerr

My first book, 'To Engineer Is Human,' was prompted by nonengineer friends asking me why so many technological accidents and failures were…

— Henry Petroski

A good sermon is an engineering operation by which a chasm is bridged so that the spiritual goods on one side-the 'unsearchable…

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

“...we shall connect the points, draw the line, and you and I shall form that unique design for which I yearn. If…

— Vladimir Nabokov

About half of all design patterns out there [...] appear to be ways take perfectly natural design ideas and twist them to…

— Steve Yegge

If you've found some way to educate yourself about engineering, stocks, or whatever it is, good employers will have some type of…

— Bill Gates

Designs are a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life.

— Geoffrey Beene

The genius idea of industrialism was the concept of the Model T: In exchange for something cheap and well-made, we'd forgo unique,…

— Clive Thompson

I applied to NASA four times. And finally, they said, Wally, you know, we're sorry, but you don't have an engineering degree.…

— Wally Funk

We're always taught that we're building for permanence, but why? I like the idea of a prosthetic architecture! When a section is…

— Elizabeth Diller

In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building…

— Anonymous

“With my simple engineering mind I was throughout optimistic and, therefore, carried the project through. I was naive enough to believe in…

— Nina Fedoroff

Relying on nothing but scientific knowledge to produce an engineering solution is to invite frustration at best and failure at worst.

— Henry Petroski

For me, cooking is practical. That's the core of an engineer. Engineers are very practical designers and creative people. Every single thing…

— Alvin Leung

I would staple a green card to the diploma of anyone that graduates with a degree in the physical sciences or engineering…

— John Doerr

Engineering or technology is all about using the power of science to make life better for people, to reduce cost, to improve…

— N. R. Narayana Murthy

There's a bias on hiring the best engineers wherever they come from. It does seem like a lot of the non-engineering execs…

— Ken Auletta

I studied engineering at Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo, and between my junior and senior years I actually joined the Navy, while I…

— Victor J. Glover

“Like craftsmen in a medieval guild, NASA engineers hoped that one day their children would decide to take up the mantle of…

— Margot Lee Shetterly

By employing the intelligence of natural systems we can create industry, buildings, even regional plans that see nature and commerce not as…

— Brad Pitt

If we want to get beyond this whole I'm-cool-because-I-care-about-women thing, what we really need to do is we have to start encouraging…

— Michael Arrington

If I worked construction I would make so many friends by always yelling 'nailed it' and 'screw you' all day long.

— Anonymous

“ideologues of every stripe, as well as folks with interests economic, political, or personal, can interpret data and statistics to suit their…

— Peter Benchley

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— Mechanical Engineer

Once I got out of architecture school I decided not to be an architect, I just started my own little design studio.

— Joseph Kosinski

This is not the internet the world needs, or the internet its creators envisioned. We need to take it back. And by…

— Bruce Schneier

Our job is to show how it is possible to take an illiterate woman and make her into an engineer in six…

— Bunker Roy

Not only does investing in your infrastructure provide very good construction jobs, at the end of the project, you have something.

— Shelley Berkley

No matter what engineering field you're in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little…

— Noam Chomsky