Engineering Quotes · Page 37

Whether it's a computer or a pen drawing, design is about drawing shapes and making physical things.

— Jake Barton

It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design, and I've devoted much of my career to this.

— Michael Graves

Design is the beauty of turning constraints into advantages.

— Aza Raskin

I love software, because if you can imagine something, you can build it.

— Ray Ozzie

Only those who are built up can build others up, amen?

— Joseph Prince

“home is the structure/ you build when nowhere else will have you”

— Ann Tweedy

I always say my first job is my building trade. The rest comes and goes.

— Eddie the Eagle

The room within is the great fact about the building.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

For 'tis the sport to have the engineer Hoist with his own petar; and't shall go hard But I will delve one…

— William Shakespeare

You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in…

— Ken Robinson

The most rewarding, insightful and challenging year of my life was my 'Year in Industry' working as a trainee engineer at Black…

— Steph McGovern

In our case, I, a working engineer, inventor and scientist, am bringing new innovation to campaigning to enable a grass-roots movement.

— Shiva Ayyadurai

First I was going to be a football player, then after that try to study medicine or engineering. But it was very…

— Manuel Pellegrini

Social engineering is using deception, manipulation and influence to convince a human who has access to a computer system to do something,…

— Kevin Mitnick

To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class?…

— Charles Eames

Modern building has become so universally conditioned by optimized technology that the possibility of creating significant urban form has become extremely limited.

— Kenneth Frampton

Few people have heard of John Hawkshaw, the engineer responsible for Brighton's sewers, but he also built the Severn Tunnel and parts…

— Michael Portillo

There's more to be learned here [St. Andrews] about course design than anywhere. Collection bunkers, false fronts, bump shots. The fundamentals of…

— Jack Nicklaus

My engineer dad is where my technical acumen comes from. I remember him taking me to the factories to see how what…

— Bibhu Mohapatra

Advertising isn't just the disruption of aesthetics, the insults to your intelligence and the interruption of your train of thought. At every…

— Jan Koum

Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the…

— Herbert Hoover

“Stephenson had large wrought-iron boiler plates available and he also had the courage of his calculations... The idea found its best-known expression…

— Anonymous

At least since the Industrial Revolution, the world of design has been dominated by the rigors of manufacturing and mass production. Assembly…

— Neri Oxman

If you're serious about being an architect, you've got to learn how to take responsibility. It's not fluff. You have to do…

— Frank Gehry

When I design something, I think of it as a gift to somebody else.

— Eva Zeisel

When an architect is asked what his best building is, he usually answers, "The next one."

— Emilio Ambasz

Every building is like a person. Single and unrepeatable.

— Louis Sullivan

I like to study culture and buildings and it's something I do on tour.

— Juan Martin del Potro

Design is the art of planning, and it is the art of making things possible.

— Paula Scher

The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.

— Harry Bertoia

I try to look at design from a more conceptual standpoint.

— Cynthia Rowley

“To an engineer, only the ingenuity of pragmatic solutions is poetic. Function”

— Noah Hawley

“when technology engineers intimacy, relationships can be reduced to mere connections.”

— Sherry Turkle

It's something special being able to build a program up.

— Christen Press

Knowing there is a structure, hidden or felt, to the random gives pleasure.

— Cecil Balmond

“A design can excel at one challenge only by compromising at others.”

— Steven Pinker

The design of a dress, furniture, a house, a room, a street and a city are all the same process.

— Gianfranco Ferre

Without design, there may be representation, but there can be no art.

— Kenyon Cox

I wanted to be a decorator. I wanted to interior design homes and do everything myself.

— Ursula Andress

Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era.

— Clement Mok