Engineering Quotes · Page 29

I like design, I like details, to me it is just another form of self-expression.

— John Malkovich

Design without discipline is anarchy, an exercise of irresponsibilit y.

— Massimo Vignelli

There is no design without discipline. There is no discipline without intelligence.

— Massimo Vignelli

Everything that wasn't invented by God is invented by an engineer.

— Prince Philip

A scientist builds in order to learn; an engineer learns in order to build.

— Fred Brooks

“Complex work is managed so that problems in design and operations are revealed.”

— Gene Kim

Making good design is easy. It's polishing the half-assed stuff that takes time.

— Stefan G. Bucher

Design has taken the place of what sailing used to be.

— Dennis Conner

With the advent of genetic engineering the time required for the evolution of new species may literally collapse.

— Dee Hock

At Stanford, we teach 'design thinking' - that is, we put together small, interdisciplinary groups to figure out what the true needs…

— Hasso Plattner

Regardless of what the object of design is, humans need design. For anything humans use in their day to day life, they…

— Kenji Ekuan

“[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

I would encourage anybody who's interested in any kind of science, engineering, math field, to go after that.

— Heidi Hammel

The level of detail and craft is something that's inscribed within the original design concept. And so when I begin to draw,…

— Tadao Ando

When I start, my first idea for a building is with the material. I believe architecture is about that. It's not about…

— Peter Zumthor

The way I look at my job, I spend a lot of time trying to create the conditions for good design to…

— Khoi Vinh

Technology frightens me to death. It's designed by engineers to impress other engineers. And they always come with instruction booklets that are…

— John Cleese

I am not unaware that I have the mindset, as contradictory as it may sound, to discover in the world what I…

— Richard Misrach

I came to writing kind of late. I was an engineer, and the one thing I've learned is that you have to…

— George Saunders

To design things means to interfere with things: to think of how they might be and to alter how they are. Design…

— Robert Bringhurst

The process of design starts with exploration, but ends with refinement. The best designers carefully move from one to the other, making…

— Jared Spool

The design of the building addresses the public nature of both the urban context and the internal program. In order to reinforce…

— Michael Graves

Phyllis is one of the tunnel boring machines for Crossrail and one of the most extraordinary characters I met, visiting some of…

— Evan Davis

I was this Swedish kid who came over here to study engineering, but I got into movies, and suddenly I'm in this…

— Dolph Lundgren

Engineering is the art or science of making practical.

— Samuel Florman

My home is in West Vancouver, B.C. My husband built it from drawings to design and colour.

— Erica Durance

It's fascinating to learn math and science and engineering.

— Shannon Walker

One has to watch out for engineers. They begin with the sewing machine and end up with the atomic bomb.

— Marcel Pagnol

What the people are within, the buildings express without.

— Louis Sullivan

Design that moves others comes from issues that move you.

— Jennifer Morla

Often the most important moment in the design process is figuring out what the right question is.

— Thomas Heatherwick

When we vote we participate in the construction of a context...

— Aberjhani

If I wasn't an engineer, I would have been a film journalist.

— Sudha Murty

“Design simply today, knowing you can add complexity needed tomorrow.”

— Anonymous

To dazzle let the vain design, To raise the thought and touch the heart, be thine!

— Alexander Pope

If something happened, like engineers starting to quit, things would go downhill fast.

— Masayoshi Son

I think when we build something we love and that others love, then we have done our job.

— Craig Federighi

“British mechanics and engineers were in demand around the world.”

— Thomas Sowell

The only important thing about design is how it relates to people.

— Victor Papanek

Design negotiates between technology, policy, systems, and users.

— Jens Martin Skibsted