Engineering Quotes · Page 9

I didn't do any designs for 'My Fair Lady.'

— Hubert de Givenchy

The door handle is the handshake of the building.

— Juhani Pallasmaa

My dad was an electrical engineer.

— John Cooper Clarke

“Create with the heart; build with the mind.”

— Criss Jami

When it does not exist, design it.

— Henry Royce

Work for money, design for love.

— Issey Miyake

Engineering is too important to wait for science.

— Benoit Mandelbrot

I love design and fashion.

— Kendra Scott

What you spend years building, someone might destroy overnight. Build it anyway.

— Anonymous

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

— Grayson Perry

Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it.

— William F. Buckley, Jr

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

— David Linley

Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design.

— Christopher Alexander

Design is a very personal thing. It's like art. Your personal choice plays a big role.

— Gauri Khan

Good design is partially creativity and innovation, but primarily knowledge and awareness.

— Chuck Green

With my designs and my ideas, I want to please myself first.

— Nicolas Ghesquiere

We have wide-ranging joint projects in the nuclear energy sphere, logistics, machine building and trade as a whole [with China].

— Vladimir Putin

I got involved in the design process a long time ago. I've been working with their main designer [Berlei] for a while.…

— Serena Williams

All creative work begins by doing something with the hands. Creation is simply a problem and design is the way out.

— Charles James

“The natural evolution from design doing to design thinking reflects the growing recognition on the part of today’s business leaders that design…

— Tim Brown

I was always intrigued when I was growing up, and then in engineering school, with the idea of a perpetual machine. I…

— Mike Duke

We have an amazing engineering team in the company pushing the limits of device physics and some great partners in manufacturing.

— Jensen Huang

I've always written. I'm from an older generation of programmers [who] did not come out of engineering. [A]ll sorts of people were…

— Ellen Ullman

Spread the truth-the laws of economics are like the laws of engineering. One set of laws works everywhere.

— Lawrence Summers

“I will build a car for the great multitude. It will be large enough for the family, but small enough for the…

— Henry Ford

The day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, may make significant progress alone and without material help is past. This fact…

— Ernest Lawrence

The critical thing about the design process is to identify your scarcest resource. Despite what you may think, that very often is…

— Fred Brooks

“They had all comprehended the idea in an instant, and saw no real difficulty in it. An American sees no real difficulty…

— Jules Verne

The new build will play a vital role in the £1billion regeneration project at Longbridge, providing a strong educational element to the…

— Karren Brady

Indeed, an engineer designing a structure is not unlike an artist painting one. Both start with nothing but talent, experience, and inspiration.…

— Henry Petroski

Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and…

— Walter Gropius

To the engineer, all matter in the universe can be placed into one of two categories: (1) things that need to be…

— Tom Stoppard

I try firstly to make buildings humane.

— Moshe Safdie

“Design is all about conveying information.”

— Leigh Bardugo

DREAM IT! BUILD IT! LIVE IT! LOVE IT!

— Anonymous

Yes, design can make you happy.

— Stefan Sagmeister

Sustainability is a design challenge

— Anonymous

Not all design is for the general good.

— Paola Antonelli

Take the best that exists and make it better.

— Henry Royce

The road to excellence is always under construction

— Anonymous