Engineering Quotes · Page 46

Good design is probably something that has been thoroughly thought through to a point of resolution.

— David Linley

I've always liked working with an archetypal design, something functional.

— Grayson Perry

Eight-man teams drilling expansion bolts in rocks? Sorry, that's not climbing - that's engineering.

— Jeff Lowe

It's all about the money. Write a check, and you can build anything you want.

— Greg Brenneman

I'm not building a game. I'm building a new country.

— Philip Rosedale

Perhaps I'd like to design cars, but I don't think I'd be much good at it.

— Jonathan Ive

Purpose is not necessary to make a building beautiful.

— Philip Johnson

Really great design is hard. Good is the enemy of great,

— Jonathan Ive

“One hundred years from now, our engineering may seem as archaic as the techniques used by medieval cathedral builders seem to today's…

— Anonymous

First rule of engineering; beware prototypes. Along with, avoid anything made by an engineer who doesn't have all his own fingers.

— Simon R. Green

A building is no good if someone's got to explain to you why it's good. You can't say you don't know enough…

— David Chipperfield

Augmented and virtual reality technologies are the future of smart construction and we are just starting to see the possibilities.

— Grant Imahara

Engineers aren't professional grammarticians, but they love correcting people. Even more, they love making you feel stupid.

— Sarah Cooper

All we know about the new economic world is that nations which train engineers will prevail over those which train lawyers. No…

— Richard Lamm

“To build a healthy relation, bricks must be laid with care in the foundations. The building will merely have these foundations to…

— Wasif Minhas

I admire Miken's exceptional engineering capabilities and was drawn to their passion for hockey and drive to be the best in all…

— Brett Hull

“Our plans and designs should be so perfect in truth and beauty, that in touching them the world could only mar. We…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Dad and Mom were frustrated artists - Dad wanted to study engineering or architecture and Mom wanted to be an actress -…

— Eden Robinson

Much of the early engineering development of digital computers was done in universities. A few years ago, the view was commonly expressed…

— Maurice Wilkes

What (Stephen) Hawking says in his book The Grand Design is the universe exists because it needed to exist, and because it…

— John Lennox

You employ stone, wood and concrete, and with these materials you build houses and palaces. That is construction. Ingenuity is at work.…

— Le Corbusier

Our yearning for democracy is accompanied by a no less profound yearning for peace. And the media also faced the task of…

— Noam Chomsky

“See,” said Gizmo, “we’re all starting out with some tools already forged, when it comes to what we expect of each other.…

— Mike Reeves-McMillan

There's no doubt who was a leader in space after the Apollo Program. Nobody came close to us. And our education system,…

— Buzz Aldrin

Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.

— Charles Eames

Dude, my hair is like an architectural structure. It’s like… a building.

— Taylor Swift

“Why climb the corporate ladder when you can build an elevator in your own building?”

— Joshua E. Leyenhorst

I often get asked if I think I'm ever going to build something useful, and maybe someday I will.

— Simone Giertz

“Designs belong to individual designers; Architecture belongs to communities of practice. We”

— Peter Lucas

Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.

— Larry Wall

Don't design your back yard from the outside looking in. Design from your window looking out.

— Janet Macunovich

I feel I'm a hammer to the construction worker that is the filmmaker.

— Cuba Gooding, Jr

“Before you get out of the building, get out of your comfort zone.”

— Rodrigo Martinez RMentrepreneur

Since an early age, I’ve been intrigued by the idea of design evolution,

— Phillip Lim

You want to have a good cake? Get two engineers to build it.

— Allison Schroeder

Most of the work performed by a development engineer results in failure.

— Koichi Tanaka

When any great design thou dost intend, Think on the means, the manner, and the end.

— John Denham

Engineering is achieving function while avoiding failure.

— Henry Petroski

In a few wretched buildings, we created a whole new industry with international significance.

— Edwin Land

Flexibility makes buildings to be stronger, imagine what it can do to your soul.

— Carlos Barrios