Engineering Quotes · Page 31

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

— John Irving

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

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

— Tate Linden

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

— Bruce Mau

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

— Anastasia Soare

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

The first thing to learn about the deep structure of modern design is that it is relation-seeking and pleasurably so.

— Norman Potter

We get first-rate faculty members from the leading engineering and science institutes to train our people.

— Azim Premji

We don't want to be a design line. Ultimately, we want to be a platform that houses many design aesthetics.

— Alexa Hirschfeld

You know, at the end of the day, all you can do is work at it, perfect your craft, come in with…

— Tyler Herro

What I try to do is the art of building, and the art of building is the art of construction; it is…

— Peter Zumthor

I never studied interior design, but I'm a creative person. And what we surround ourselves with is very important - what makes…

— Lynn Whitfield

I'm a mechanical engineer, and I grew up on a farm, so I like practical hardware - somebody's elegant solution that proves…

— Chris Hadfield

I went to school for audio engineering, and I was around a lot of sound engineers over the summers in New York,…

— Gus Dapperton

The valuable properties of this cement depend in a great measure on the mode of preparing it for use. The mixing should…

— Canvass White

“I’m a decent engineer with an analytical mind. Using my problem-solving skills to whack my husband became a challenge. A fun challenge,…

— Jack Erickson

Engineers are not superhuman. They make mistakes in their assumptions, in their calculations, in their conclusions. That they make mistakes is forgivable;…

— Henry Petroski

I knew it would be hard work, but that's the reason you're an actor. If you're a bricklayer, you don't want to…

— Casey Affleck

A lot of people don't understand the building phase. They don't have the blueprint, but we do. With us having the blueprint…

— B.J. The Chicago Kid

I started in engineering, where I think I could have happily remained and, who knows, made a bundle as a civil engineer…

— Jim Peebles

If you're running an engineering or finance company, all companies depend on ideas and ingenuity. I think the principles of creative leadership…

— Ken Robinson

Every few decades, we have an opportunity to make a drastic change to the way we live our lives. We get a…

— Paul Polman

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

— Anonymous

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

I'm not even an engineer. I don't have a college degree; I hire guys with college degrees.

— Woody Norris

Accident is natures way of starting a design; design is a mans way of looking at the accidents.

— Thiruman Archunan

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build it anyway.

— Mother Teresa

I think in terms of what I am able to accomplish and build.

— Christie Hefner

Design needs a new relationship with the world, one that is more focused on our planet's needs.

— Yves Behar

... man cannot help but transcend himself as soon as he begins to design and construct.

— Samuel Florman

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

— Peter Zumthor

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

— Melchor Lim

Dress designing . . . is to me not a profession but an art,

— Elsa Schiaparelli

Complexity is not a goal. I don't want to be remembered as an engineer of complex systems.

— David Parnas

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

— Yves Rossy

Every time I meet with the CEO of a big laptop company, they tell me they 'studied' my design.

— Mary Lou Jepsen

An engineer is someone who washes his hands before going to the toilet.

— Anonymous