Computers Quote by Alan Weisman

“Within the overall structure of a project there is always room for individuality and craftsmanship… One hundred years from now, our engineering may seem…

— Cal Newport

I say this as an engineer: We are profoundly bad at asking ourselves how the things we build could be misused.

— Brianna Wu

“Computer engineers of today are likely to find that if they have a two-week holiday they may miss a crucial new development in computing.…

— James Essinger

“In your lifetime you build two buildings, one of accomplishment, the other of failure, and only you can decide how big each one should…

— Collin Johnson

“The problem came down to this: Americans, who had invented the modern assembly line, the skyscraper, the airplane, and the integrated circuit, no longer…

— George Packer

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

— William E. Burrows

“The fewer moving parts, the better." "Exactly. No truer words were ever spoken in the context of engineering.”

— Christian Cantrell

“That’s the problem with engineers: when they can’t get something working, they always blame the previous group of engineers, and you never know which…

— Robert Kroese

“We have the capacity to build almost anything we can imagine. The big question of our time is not Can it be built? but…

— Eric Ries

“Using machines to make other machines allowed finer tolerances to be maintained-sometimes down to a thousandth of an inch"-and this in turn meant that…

— Thomas Sowell

Engineers are not superhuman. They make mistakes in their assumptions, in their calculations, in their conclusions. That they make mistakes is forgivable; that they…

— Henry Petroski

I have always made a point in my romances of basing my so-called inventions upon a groundwork of actual fact, and of using in…

— Jules Verne