Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Few people have heard of John Hawkshaw, the engineer responsible for Brighton's sewers, but he also built the Severn Tunnel and parts… — Michael Portillo Copy Share Image
There's more to be learned here [St. Andrews] about course design than anywhere. Collection bunkers, false fronts, bump shots. The fundamentals of… — Jack Nicklaus Copy Share Image
My engineer dad is where my technical acumen comes from. I remember him taking me to the factories to see how what… — Bibhu Mohapatra Copy Share Image
If you're serious about being an architect, you've got to learn how to take responsibility. It's not fluff. You have to do… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
If a building makes us light up, it is not because we see order; any row of file cabinets is ordered. What… — Jonathan Hale Copy Share Image
Experimental architecture by its very nature is more prone to the depredations of time and natural elements than buildings made from conventional… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
“Stephenson had large wrought-iron boiler plates available and he also had the courage of his calculations... The idea found its best-known expression… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At least since the Industrial Revolution, the world of design has been dominated by the rigors of manufacturing and mass production. Assembly… — Neri Oxman Copy Share Image
But amid much elegance and precision, the details of life and the Universe also exhibit haphazard, jury-rigged arrangements and much poor planning.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
We are like a building for building fall and then we rebuild and with every rebuild we build stronger finding where the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The majority of men can see and visualise the end part of the build, and their wives go, 'I just can't get… — George Clarke Copy Share Image
Engineering is not merely knowing and being knowledgeable, like a walking encyclopedia; engineering is not merely analysis; engineering is not merely the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One can expect the human race to continue attempting systems just within or just beyond our reach; and software systems are perhaps… — Fred Brooks Copy Share Image
For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and… — James Rouse Copy Share Image
I think taking design out of the studio and really having a relationship with the people that you're making it for really… — Genevieve Gorder Copy Share Image
“Don’t worry about design, if you listen to your code a good design will appear...Listen to the technical people. If they are… — Jason Fried Copy Share Image
Buildings for me represent opportunities of agency, transformation, and storytelling. They are not just artifacts. There is this big tradition of buildings-as-artifacts… — David Adjaye Copy Share Image
“Designer Charles Eames, arguably the quintessential Renaissance Man of the twentieth century, used to complain good-naturedly that he devoted only about one… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
“Build your organization from the top down. An organization is the opposite of a building: Its foundation is at the top, so… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
The aim of human rights, if I may borrow a term from engineering, is to move beyond the design and drawing-board phase,… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
Some of the best ideas throughout the company's evolution have been from places all throughout the company whether it's an engineer or… — Mark Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
“An organization that commits itself to the human-centered tenets of design thinking is practicing enlightened self-interest. If it does a better job… — Tim Brown Copy Share Image
Science is dangerous. There is no question but that poison gas, genetic engineering, and nuclear weapons and power stations are terrifying. It… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
A common misconception about how things such as space shuttles come to be is that engineers simply apply the theories and equations… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
Because I live and breathe design every day, sometimes I will come across an idea that is something I want to try.… — Jonathan Scott Copy Share Image
Atlantis was a highly evolved civilization where the sciences and arts were far more advanced than one might guess. Atlantis was technologically… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We have grown accustomed to the wonders of clean water, indoor plumbing, laser surgery, genetic engineering, artificial joints, replacement body parts, and… — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share Image
The time to talk about it [genetic engineering to improve a baby's genes] in schools and churches and magazines and debate societies… — Arthur Caplan Copy Share Image
From 50 centuries, we can learn about the close relationship between garden design and urban design, because both arts involve the composition… — Tom Turner Copy Share Image
“--Gardens, not buildings-- Great projects start out feeling like buildings. There are architects, materials, staff, rigid timelines, permits, engineers, a structure. It… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
In high school, I majored in brick masonry. We had the wood shop, the machine shop, so I know about all that.… — Mr. T Copy Share Image
Whether we like it or not, the ultimate goal of every science is to become trivial, to become a well-controlled apparatus for… — Aharon Katzir Copy Share Image
At any point in the world's history most architecture is going to be bad but I think there's been a collective mentality… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
“If you are a scientist or engineer, an architect or designer, a writer, artist, or musician, or if your creativity is a… — Richard Florida Copy Share Image
If I'd lived in Bristol, I'd probably be doing building site stuff, plastering. Probably not the plastering. It would have been mixing.… — Tricky Copy Share Image
A spider conducts operations that resemble those of a weaver, and a bee puts to shame many an architect in the construction… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“It strikes Werner just then as wondrously futile to build splendid buildings, to make music, to sing songs, to print huge books… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
So I was drawing in a lot of the habit district in Brazil, put that together with an Asian influence, so there… — Len Wiseman Copy Share Image
When people condemn me for designing iconic buildings in cities and not having an idea what a city is, they haven't done… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image