Engineering Quotes · Page 28

“Good designs are in special places for those who has appreciation; bad designs are everywhere.”

— Baris Gencel

I'd like mostly stuff for design, because I like to design clothing.

— Quinn Shephard

To the engineer falls the job of clothing the bare bones of science with life, comfort, and hope.

— Herbert Hoover

I'd like to do a lot of things - whether in design or architecture or business.

— Caroline Wozniacki

What's nice about having an engineering degree is everybody thinks you are smart.

— Ato Essandoh

“Breaking into the building was easy. Too easy for an assassin like me.”

— Jennifer Estep

I wanted to pursue chemical engineering because I thought it was the future.

— Mukesh Ambani

I don't know technology and engineering. I don't know accounting.

— Bernard Ebbers

For decades engineers have stood accused that their buildings do not have any cultural value. We have attempted to liberate engineering of…

— Fritz Todt

“I walk through the glass doors and into the lobby, which is floor-to-ceiling glass and steel. This fascinates me to no end,…

— Fanny Merkin

If you surround yourself with people who are trying to build, who are all willing to build other people up, they build…

— Blake Roney

Software will get to be somewhat more mature, ah, but it will never be as predictable as most areas of engineering.

— Bill Gates

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 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

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

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

— Jeremiah Brent

I see the Beijing National Stadium as an architectural project. I accepted Herzog and De Meuron's invitation to collaborate on the design,…

— Ai Weiwei

“The word “Building” makes a completed structure seem under construction. Once a building is finished, it should be called a “Built.” Similarly,…

— Jarod Kintz

I pushed the process forward by saying, 'We should do this, this, and this right now. Please find the budget for me…

— Michael Arad

I still haven't heard anything from Apple about my hacks. There is a tool based on my work reverse-engineering Apple's FairPlay called…

— Anonymous

For decades engineers have stood accused that their buildings do not have any cultural value. We have attempted to liberate engineering of…

— Fritz Todt

“I wanted to study graphic design, because I wanted to work in an office with designer desks, ergonomic chairs, pool tables, and…

— Jarod Kintz

In a world where concepts are so often deployed in an ad hoc fashion, half explored before being displaced by others, it…

— Marilyn Strathern

I don't like building, I'm not a carpenter, I don't like constructions particularly and things like that, but placements and the kinds…

— Julian Schnabel

Whatever future you're building, don't try to program everything.

— Pierre Omidyar

I just want people to be excited about hard stuff, that's what engineering is.

— Hank Green

The best way to accomplish serious design ... is to be totally and completely unqualified for the job.

— Paula Scher

Not all SF or fantasy has to inspire new scientists and engineers.

— David Brin

A proper building grows naturally, logically, and poetically out of all its conditions.

— Louis Sullivan

Buildings are always better than drawings and models.

— Rafael Moneo

Art Nouveau got its inspiration from nature. The Bauhaus got its inspiration from engineering.

— P. J. O'Rourke

No architect should design buildings that import a huge amount of energy.

— Christiana Figueres

“knowledge is constructed, and that people play an active role in its construction.”

— Peter H. Johnston

The walls between art and engineering exist only in our minds.

— Theo Jansen

“We are design to be great so be great in all that you do!”

— Kimberly Redding

A lot of my building blocks - who I am kind of as an artist - all came from being in L.A.

— Steve Aoki

Engineering the biological world was even more interesting than engineering the mechanical world.

— Frances Arnold

“Design is relationships. Design is a relationship between form and content.”

— Paul Rand

“Build of your imaginings a bower in the wilderness ere you build a house within the city walls.”

— Khalil Gibran

I never had a doubt that I wanted to do engineering.

— Mo Ibrahim