Engineering Quote by Alvin Leung

Successful engineering is all about understanding how things break or fail.

— Henry Petroski

Although engineers want always to make everything better, they cannot make anything perfect. This basic characteristic flaw of the products of the profession's practitioners…

— Henry Petroski

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

Failure is central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation. Successful engineering is all about understanding how things…

— Henry Petroski

Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.

— Scott Adams

Engineering is achieving function while avoiding failure.

— Henry Petroski

More than ever, the world needs good engineers. However, the pool of talent is shrinking not growing.

— Dean Kamen

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

— Grant Imahara

Engineers have a certain mindset of how they approach problem solving. That's basically what engineers are: problem solvers. You identify the problem. Then you…

— Trevor Bauer

Problem-solving is essential to engineering. Engineers are constantly on the lookout for a better way to do things.

— Dinesh Paliwal

“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

Most of the work performed by a development engineer results in failure.

— Koichi Tanaka