Engineering Quotes · Page 30

I wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers do.

— Brian Eno

In nature, there is no separation between design, engineering, and fabrication; the bone does it all.

— Neri Oxman

Studying engineering was natural for me; I was always interested in technology and building things.

— Leroy Chiao

Game design isn’t just a technological craft. It’s a twenty-first-century way of thinking and leading.

— Jane McGonigal

Content informs design; design without content is decoration.

— Jeffrey Zeldman

I've learnt a lot about construction and flexibility from my time at Geox.

— Patrick Cox

Happiness is the object and design of our existence.

— Joseph Smith, Jr

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

— Michael Abrash

The organic laws of construction tangled me in my desires, and only with great pain, effort, and struggle did I break through…

— Wassily Kandinsky

I think it is important to be present in the places where you are working. It is not only about doing a…

— Santiago Calatrava

I'm able to make out the difference in my cricket since I started studying engineering. I can't explain how or why, but…

— Ravichandran Ashwin

“The best atrocity engineering is conducted, thought Albrecht, never so much by the participant, but by the enabler.”

— Kane X. Faucher

At MakerBot, we joke that if we were engineers we would still be on our first prototype. There's something about just 'Doing…

— Bre Pettis

“I’d learned over time that engineers preferred a straightforward question with a quantifiable answer. Open-ended designing, on the other hand, was the…

— B.V. Larson

Building infrastructure is our most powerful tool to create jobs and improve the playing field for all businesses.

— Conor Lamb

Real men study law and engineering, while ideas and values are for sissies. The humanities should constitute the core of any university…

— Terry Eagleton

No engineer can go upon a new work and not find something peculiar, that will demand his careful reflection, and the deliberate…

— Anonymous

By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the…

— Steven Chu

I started [flying] by being scared. When I was an amateur I played a couple tournaments and I had to fly, and…

— Arnold Palmer

Fashion is an archetype: you're trying to build a silhouette, and that is very similar to building up a building because you're…

— Jonathan Anderson

Color is a very critical thing. I've found that architects don't like colors. Engineers too. And so somebody has to stand in.…

— John Hench

Mechanical Notation ... I look upon it as one of the most important additions I have made to human knowledge. It has…

— Charles Babbage

I love the construction process and it is always important because we try to experiment and do something new, so the builders…

— Santiago Calatrava

“Funny, there had been a time when building things was what America did. From massive dams to towering skyscrapers, from mechanized factories…

— Marcus Sakey

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

— Jonathan Ive

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

— Sixto Rodriguez

We need Hollywood to make movies and television shows about sexy female engineers.

— Chelsea Clinton

If I were 21 years old, I would go into biotechnology or genetic engineering.

— Larry Ellison

Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.

— Werner Heisenberg

I haven't done any building designs since the Loaf House.

— Ben Nicholson

Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.

— Julia Morgan

When you're building something, you know all of the trade-offs.

— Nolan Bushnell

“Market and price, then design, then build. In other words, design the product around the price. Think”

— Madhavan Ramanujam

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

— Antonio Garcia Martinez

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

— Vicky Kaushal

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

— Joseph Straus

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

— Marcel Pagnol

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

— Anonymous

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