Engineering Quotes · Page 64

The switch from 'steam engines' to 'heat engines' signals the transition from engineering practice to theoretical science.

— Hans Christian von Baeyer

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

— Santiago Calatrava

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

— Wassily Kandinsky

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

— Alexa Hirschfeld

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

— Terry Eagleton

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

“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

Dubai is a vibrant city: Big cars, big buildings... it reminds me of my home town, Hong Kong. People are always on…

— John Rocha

“It is fun to be around really, really creative makers in the second half of the chessboard, to see what they can…

— Thomas L. Friedman

My parents, and especially my mother, encouraged by the director of the local school which I was attending, wanted in spite of…

— Leon Jouhaux

I think design means, for me, almost when man, back in time, decided to do something conscious. You know... to shape something…

— Cornelia Parker

I knew I wanted to be an engineer, but I didn't know what type of engineer. I chose electrical engineering primarily because…

— Steve Mollenkopf

This project is so important because it's going to create an environment to inspire people. The RIBA believes that here in the…

— Ruth Reed

Today, when so much seems to conspire to reduce life and feeling to the most deprived and demeaning bottom line, it is…

— Ada Louise Huxtable

“Principles of design: 1. Use both knowledge in the world and knowledge in the head. 2. Simplify the structure of tasks. 3.…

— Donald A. Norman

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

— Conor Lamb

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 started this career because I loved doing houses. I'd done three of my own and I couldn't keep on moving my…

— Dorothy Draper

I like to think about the future and how things can be done better than they are now. That's what engineers do.

— Martin Cooper

Technology may change rapidly, but people change slowly. The principals [of design] come from understanding of people. They remain true forever.

— Donald A. Norman

Regardless of what the object of design is, humans need design. For anything humans use in their day to day life, they…

— Kenji Ekuan

I would encourage anybody who's interested in any kind of science, engineering, math field, to go after that.

— Heidi Hammel

“[John] Kobak explained, 'The way you learn anything is that something fails, and you figure out how not to have it fail…

— Robert S. Arrighi

The level of detail and craft is something that's inscribed within the original design concept. And so when I begin to draw,…

— Tadao Ando

When I start, my first idea for a building is with the material. I believe architecture is about that. It's not about…

— Peter Zumthor

The way I look at my job, I spend a lot of time trying to create the conditions for good design to…

— Khoi Vinh

With the advent of genetic engineering the time required for the evolution of new species may literally collapse.

— Dee Hock

Fundamentally, I am all about finding interesting and authentic ways to incorporate nature into most of my designs.

— Jeremiah Brent

At Stanford, we teach 'design thinking' - that is, we put together small, interdisciplinary groups to figure out what the true needs…

— Hasso Plattner

In the construction of a country, it is not the practical workers but the idealists and planners that are difficult to find.

— Sun Yat-sen

In life sciences, we find a reasonable balance between men and women. In engineering and computer science, we have a major problem.…

— Freeman A. Hrabowski III

“A brick could be given as a graduation gift to a C student. It’s like here, welcome to a life in the…

— Jarod Kintz

...governments, including free and democratic governments, are not really friendly to freedom and democracy. They abhor any rule of law that limits…

— George Jonas

Engineering and mixing are absolutely key. Once a song is done, for me personally, it's usually two or three days to get…

— Dr. Dre

We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.

— Leon Kass

There has been a substitution of ideology for fact and scientific and engineering data in this administration.

— Anonymous

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

— Gus Dapperton