Engineers Quotes · Page 8

If something happened, like engineers starting to quit, things would go downhill fast.

— Masayoshi Son

We will employ almost every strategy and hustle in any possible way to recruit top engineers to our team.

— Charles Best

One has to watch out for engineers. They begin with the sewing machine and end up with the atomic bomb.

— Marcel Pagnol

A scientist builds in order to learn; an engineer learns in order to build.

— Fred Brooks

Not all SF or fantasy has to inspire new scientists and engineers.

— David Brin

To the engineer falls the job of clothing the bare bones of science with life, comfort, and hope.

— Herbert Hoover

Watch with awe and amazement at how quickly an engineer will become totally annoyed by inefficiency.

— Rands

Talent is in short supply everywhere. At Wipro, we are training nonengineers to be engineers.

— Azim Premji

The space shuttle was designed, at least in part, to broaden our knowledge of the universe. To scientists, the vehicle was a…

— Henry Petroski

“The brain can be put to better use by reducing anxiety, just as reducing friction between threads can increase the torque transferred…

— Haresh Sippy

Creativity is not just for artists. It's for businesspeople looking for a new way to close a sale; it's for engineers trying…

— Twyla Tharp

No matter that astronauts and cosmonauts had perished in precisely designed and carefully tested machines. Solid engineering could always provide a safety…

— William E. Burrows

To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build…

— Ezra Pound

Writing a class without its contract would be similar to producing an engineering component (electrical circuit, VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) chip,…

— Bertrand Meyer

Calling China's online censorship system a 'Great Firewall' is increasingly trendy, but misleading. All walls, being the creation of engineers, can be…

— Evgeny Morozov

We expect our media to lead and open doors for our young talents. As we need creative engineers, doctors and managers, we…

— Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

For over a half century now I've watched office obesity develop into a full-blown, crippling disease. As our office clutter mounts, we're…

— Don Aslett

The NSF study projected a shortfall of 675,000 scientists and engineers without considering the future demand for such individuals in the marketplace.…

— Howard Wolpe

You can lose a reader in a blink of an eye. If a person is an engineer or chemist or an anthropologist…

— Robert Caro

For the nerd in me, I prefer full quality digital files as they give a truer representation of the source mix, the…

— Chris McCormack

The life of an aviator seemed to me ideal. It involved skill. It brought adventure. It made use of the latest developments…

— Charles Lindbergh

That's the only interaction I have with people, those talking shows. Most of the people in my phone book are artists, management,…

— Henry Rollins

When a decision is made to cope with the symptoms of a problem, it is generally assumed that the corrective measures will…

— Masanobu Fukuoka

With a new national commitment, our scientists and engineers will overcome obstacles to taking these [hydrogen fuel cell] cars from laboratory to…

— George W. Bush

I done became bigger swervin writin in my peer's lane. Same dudes that used to holla my engineer's name.

— Drake

[Professional engineers] must for years abandon their white collars except for Sunday.

— Herbert Hoover

Engineering is the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man.

— Thomas Tredgold

If it weren't for the people always getting tangled up with the machinery... Earth would be an engineer's paradise.

— Kurt Vonnegut

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

— Sarah Cooper

Colleges produce more sports therapists than engineers. Perhaps because America is a sporty country: a lot of outdoors.

— Azim Premji

Natural species are the library from which genetic engineers can work.

— Thomas Lovejoy

Failure is Central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation.

— Henry Petroski

Life is the steam of the corporeal engine; the soul is the engineer who makes use of the steam-quickened engine.

— Sara Coleridge

Many of the engineers I interviewed worked on reverse-engineering technology. It's a hallmark of Area 51.

— Annie Jacobsen

Engineers don't have that sixth sense where we can just toss in things here and there like many chefs.

— Alvin Leung

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

— Max Verstappen

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 was out in the combat engineers. We would throw up bridges in advance of the infantry but mainly we would just…

— Mel Brooks

Engineers are great at many things. They're not necessarily great at recognizing basic human psychology.

— Grant Imahara

We worked with the engineers in the design and construction and testing phases in those various areas, then we would get back…

— Alan Shepard