Engineering Quotes · Page 36

I love to see technology from a design perspective and vice versa. I am a 'Desigineer.'

— Pranav Mistry

Don't make me out to be an artist. I am an engineer. I am after the facts, only the facts.

— Harold Eugene Edgerton

I like the body. I like to design everything to do with the body.

— Gianni Versace

There are professions more harmful than industrial design but only a few of them

— Victor Papanek

I’m a bit of a design enthusiast, and like spending time with my girlfriend and mates.

— Nick D'Aloisio

I tell my engineers that they should not overload me with information.

— Max Verstappen

I need to aspire to be a great CEO and not just a great product engineer.

— Mark Pincus

People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok.

— Zaha Hadid

I think a craft becomes an art form when the space of possible solutions becomes so huge that engineering can't carry you…

— Bill Budge

Whether you're a farmer, builder or engineer, the opportunities are equal: Just add a little innovation.

— Strive Masiyiwa

I reckon that the Bailey Bridge and the bulldozer were the greatest advances in military engineering in the years between World War…

— Christopher Vokes

Engineers are problem solvers, and crucial to strengthening the economy, making Vermont more affordable, and protecting our most vulnerable.

— Phil Scott

Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.

— Tom Peters

Buildings are tools to reach people, raise disciples, reach students, train up our kids, heal marriages and families and worship God.

— Kevin Myers

Industrialization of the building trade is a question of material. Hence the demand for a new building material is the first prerequisite.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

The best kind of design isn't necessarily an object, a space, or a structure: it's a process- dynamic and adaptable.

— Donald A. Norman

Good design is innovative Gives a product utility Is aesthetic Makes a product easy to understand Is unobtrusive Is honest Is long-lived…

— Dieter Rams

I am troubled by the devaluing of the word 'design’. I find myself now being somewhat embarrassed to be called a designer.…

— Dieter Rams

Architect's designs must refer to the unquestionable perfection of the body's symmetry and proportions. If a building is to create a sense…

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

The ultimate aim of all artistic activity is building! ... Architects, sculptors, painters, we must all get back to craft! ... The…

— Walter Gropius

We got half the doggone MIT college of engineering here, and nobody who can fix a doggone /television/?" Dr. Joseph Abernathy glared…

— Diana Gabaldon

You wish to be great, begin from the least. You are thinking to construct some mighty fabric in height; first think of…

— Saint Augustine

I think re-engineering or restructuring or downsizing or rightsizing or whatever you want to call it, it's basically firing, has gone way…

— Robert Reich

There is no one area of chemical engineering that specifically helped me in my career as an astronaut, it was more the…

— Leroy Chiao

Great design... you won't have a business today without great design.

— Angela Ahrendts

“Scientists discover the world that exists; engineers create the world that never was.”

— Theodore Von Karman

I want to write, produce, act, and get into fashion design.

— Tonya Mitchell

Building walls is entirely sensible. We don't need to do it. We have got the English Channel.

— Nigel Farage

It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.

— Anonymous

In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.

— Charles Eames

“The inner critic? His ass is not permitted in the building.”

— Steven Pressfield

Are you kidding? I jumped off a building -- of course I'm hurt.

— Derek Landy

“I actually enjoyed construction, primarily for the camaraderie.”

— Tom Robbins

Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.

— Alan Cooper

You can say that designing is quite easy; the difficulty lies in finding a new way to explore beauty

— Yohji Yamamoto

Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future.

— Robert L. Peters

You don't build it for yourself. You know what the people want and you build it for them.

— Walt Disney

I was going to engineering school but fell in love with physics.

— Leonard Susskind

More and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Design is so critical it should be on the agenda of every meeting in every single department.

— Tom Peters