Engineers Quotes · Page 7

Complexity is not a goal. I don't want to be remembered as an engineer of complex systems.

— David Parnas

When you have a group of engineers and designers, they are not exactly the best to deal with copyright law.

— Chad Hurley

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

— Grant Imahara

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

— Mel Brooks

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

— Max Verstappen

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

— Alvin Leung

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

— Annie Jacobsen

Engineers are now experimenting with 4,096-line TV systems, suggesting that with the next generation of sets you'll be able to count the…

— Seth Shostak

Engineers use knowledge primarily to design, produce, and operate artifacts. ... Scientists, by contrast, use knowledge primarily to generate more knowledge.

— Walter Guido Vincenti

The study of celestial phenomena at radio wavelengths, radio astronomy came into being after the accidental discovery of cosmic radiation by radio…

— Honor Harger

An ambition which has conscience in it will always be a laborious and faithful engineer, and will build the road, and bridge…

— Henry Ward Beecher

The Engineer is one who, in the world of physics and applied sciences, begets new things, or adapts old things to new…

— Henry R. Towne

I have stated it plain, an' my argument's thus ( It's all one, says the Sapper) There's only one Corps which is…

— Rudyard Kipling

We can't simply blame the engineers when things go wrong because, no matter how well they plan, things don't always go according…

— Henry Petroski

Because we can engineer genetics, because we can telecast real lives-of course we must, right? But are these good things to do?…

— Roger Ebert

I'd been in a couple situations where I'd seen bands realize that they didn't have to get a good take in order…

— J. Robbins

I am also involved with all the acquisitions and overall strategy. Now it's true, I don't run operations. But I've never really…

— Larry Ellison

Facebook is not a physical country, but with 900 million users, its 'population' comes third after China and India. It may not…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

... the precedents for feminine self-expression run back through all the ages since the art of writing was invented. ... The era…

— Mary Ritter Beard

I do feel that evolution is being controlled by some sort of divine engineer. I can't help thinking that. And this engineer…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Distribution may not matter in fictional worlds, but it matters in most. The Field of Dreams conceit is especially popular in Silicon…

— Peter Thiel

Indeed the early history of rocket design could be read as the simple desire to get the rocket to function long enough…

— Norman Mailer

I’m discovering that the people that wake up early are really the trendsetters. They are up giving the commands on what the…

— Eric Thomas

“We are technocrats. We make decisions like engineers. Which doesn't always line up with what people imagine they want.”

— Neal Stephenson

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

— Sara Coleridge

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

— Henry Petroski

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

— Thomas Lovejoy

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

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

— Kurt Vonnegut

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

— Thomas Tredgold

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

— George Carlin

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

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

— Harry S. Truman

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

— Simon Baron-Cohen

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

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

— Haresh Sippy