Engineering Quotes · Page 23

Engineer/Scientist can never earn more than a business man, no matter what ever they do.

— Melchor Lim

I'm not mainly interested in what buildings mean as symbols or vehicles for ideas.

— Peter Zumthor

When I was young I had an apprenticeship as an engineer.

— Yves Rossy

“growth on the consumer Internet sits precisely at the intersection of engineering and human nature.”

— Anonymous

One has to look out for engineers - they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb.

— Marcel Pagnol

When you build a bridge, you build something for all time.

— Joseph Straus

I did engineering, and when people asked me my career plans, I used to say I would do an MBA.

— Vicky Kaushal

At the Facebook engineering level are some of the smartest people I've ever worked with.

— Antonio Garcia Martinez

Your own imagination as to the true ability of the permaculture design system, you need to trust the system and stick to…

— Geoff Lawton

Architecture is bound to situation. And I feel like the site is a metaphysical link, a poetic link, to what a building…

— Steven Holl

A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Because, if we understand how a building is to be produced and we find a way that it can be more simply…

— Minoru Yamasaki

Someone who's a really good engineer is someone who's a little bit smarter than you but who also listens to you and…

— Lou Barlow

Environmental spending creates jobs in engineering, manufacturing, construction, materials, operations and maintenance.

— Keith Ellison

I want to reiterate the fact that at the core of it all, I am a designer, a creator, and as a…

— Gauri Khan

I think architects design outside in. Or they design basically outside. They don't get in the building anymore.

— Marcel Wanders

The definition of 'safe' is not strictly an engineering term; it's a societal term. Does it mean absolutely no loss of life?…

— Henry Petroski

“One of the largest problems in getting a new design accepted by an established manufacturer is not just the ‘not invented here’…

— Paul M. Barrett

Now our world is at the present time firmly in the grip of a mechanical monster, whose head - if you want…

— Gordon R. Dickson

“The emotional transformation of engineering education isn’t magical thinking. Nor is it a vague abstraction or a series of touchy-feely practices. It…

— David Edward Goldberg

By supporting all the links in the building chain and giving them an easy, intuitive tool for sharing model-based project information, GTeam…

— Greg Lynn

I employ case studies of failure into my courses, emphasizing that they teach us much more than studies of success. It is…

— Henry Petroski

I had grown up among engineers, and I could remember the engineers of the twenties very well indeed: their open, shining intellects,…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

We can and should place special emphasis on developing in our youth constructive incentives - a love of science, engineering, and math,…

— Ezra Taft Benson

Never in the annals of software engineering was so much owed by so many to so few lines of code

— Martin Fowler

“If you want to make something simple, design for the multitude.”

— Giles Colborne

The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of.

— John Irving

Always think of drawing, getting the forms realized, emphasizing the design.

— John French Sloan

“I am at least as much a social as a biological construction.”

— David Smail

Massive Change is not about the world of design; it's about the design of the world.

— Bruce Mau

“Design is an opportunity to continue telling the story, not just to sum everything up.”

— Tate Linden

I want to open my own yoga studio. Planning construction and looking at properties is fun.

— Nina Dobrev

“As we write, so we build: to keep a record of what matters to us.”

— Alain de Botton

They work now with computers for building buildings and books, but not ever with new ideas.

— Emil Ruder

An enterprise's most vital assets lie in its design and other creative capabilities.

— Lee Kun-hee

U make me wanna jump off the highest building..cuz baby UR worth all that excitement I need..

— Anonymous

Studying technical design and art gave me the ability to see things in 3-D.

— Anastasia Soare

I did a lot of heavy-lifting - construction, demolition, that kind of thing. Dusty, dirty work.

— Sixto Rodriguez

It's not the ideas; it's design, implementation and hard work that make the difference.

— Michael Abrash

Goal we've always had for design at Apple is to create solutions that are inevitable.

— Jonathan Ive