Engineers Quotes · Page 6

When your parents are Middle Eastern immigrants, you have three choices. You can become a doctor, a lawyer or an engineer.

— Michael Mina

A good engineer gets stale very fast if he doesn't keep his hands dirty.

— Wernher von Braun

I don't have to be an engineer to understand we need female engineers.

— Bozoma Saint John

What I like best is sitting in a room together with really smart engineers thinking about a problem.

— Boyan Slat

On the sixth day God saw He couldn't do it all, so He created ENGINEERS

— Lois McMaster Bujold

Engineers have shown to embody a tremendous amount of leadership skills through the collaborative educational environment.

— Dinesh Paliwal

If drink sales are falling off, we get the pilots to engineer a bit of turbulence. That usually spikes sales.

— Michael O'Leary

Design is a process - an intimate collaboration between engineers, designers, and clients.

— Henry Dreyfuss

We have such a huge demand for engineers in this country, both male and female. We need to find a way to…

— Peggy Johnson

We have a massive shortage of engineers and one of the big glaring holes is that we have so few women doing…

— Jo Swinson

I pay two full-time assistants in my studio, plus consultants who are architects, engineers, and landscape architects, as well as lighting designers.

— Janet Echelman

Ted Templeman, the producer, and Donn Landee, the engineer, are the same team that signed Van Halen, when they were called Mammoth.…

— Sammy Hagar

In the early days it was fun to fly. You could soar over rooftops and trees, or drop down to meet a…

— Katherine Stinson

I'm an electrical engineer. Honestly, I think we have too many lawyers in Washington. Maybe we need some more engineers. They're trained…

— Greg Gianforte

I've recorded at home since I was a teenager, and I'm able to sit here in my underwear and keep trying different…

— Mac DeMarco

One principle problem of educating software engineers is that they will not use a new method until they believe it works and,…

— Watts Humphrey

Orchids manufacture their intricate devices from the common components of ordinary flowers, parts usually fitted for very different functions. If God had…

— Stephen Jay Gould

I would never talk just to be social. Now, to sit down with a bunch of engineers and talk about the latest…

— Temple Grandin

Yahoo has gone too far in wrongfully accusing us of a conspiracy that doesn't exist. If they are having problems retaining engineers,…

— Jonathan Sacks

There are now hundreds of thousands of new engineers that are being trained in China. If people start finding themselves losing their…

— Iris Chang

The very notion that millions of workers displaced by the re-engineering and automation of the agricultural, manufacturing, and service sectors can be…

— Jeremy Rifkin

Challenger was lost because NASA came to believe its own propaganda. The agency's deeply impacted cultural hubris had it that technology-engineering-would always…

— William E. Burrows

Young people at universities study to achieve knowledge and not to learn a trade. We must all learn how to support ourselves,…

— Winston Churchill

Traditionally, an engineer is responsible for capturing sound - microphone choice, gear, etc. A producer can have a number of different responsibilities…

— Matt Squire

Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.

— Cory Doctorow

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

A scientist describes what is. An engineer creates what never was.

— Theodore von Karman

Engineers are very logical and everything has to be tested so when we fail, we'll know why and how to improve things.

— Alvin Leung

The engineer's power was usually limited to a refusal to endorse a given plan, or to the tender of his resignation.

— Samuel Florman

Everybody is headed for the same place, and they are headed on the same train, and under the same engineer.

— Harry S. Truman

Orchids were not made by an ideal engineer; they are jury-rigged from a limited set of available components.

— Stephen Jay Gould

As engineers, we were going to be in a position to change the world - not just study it.

— Henry Petroski

We have found fathers and grandfathers of children with autism are more likely to be engineers.

— Simon Baron-Cohen

Engineers at General Motors have developed a revolutionary new engine whose only function is to lubricate itself.

— George Carlin

“As in real life, complex engineering designs demand a pragmatic approach.”

— Haresh Sippy

There's no faster way to get on the good side of most engineers than making fun of product managers.

— Sarah Cooper

The scientist and engineers who are building the future need the poets to make sense of it.

— Jason Silva

“neighborhood was filled with engineers from Hewlett-Packard, then as now one of”

— Malcolm Gladwell

When valuing a startup, add $500k for every engineer, and subtract $250k for every MBA.

— Aaron Patzer

“Let the engineers teach engineering or busy themselves with web development and let the Fuqaha deal with fiqh”

— One of My teachers