Appearance Quote by Andrew Vachss

First rule of engineering; beware prototypes. Along with, avoid anything made by an engineer who doesn't have all his own fingers.

— Simon R. Green

laws and conditions appropriate to a mechanical creation, against this I raise my sword-pen.

— Anthony Burgess

Craft meets the machine in rapid fabrication. We can generate craft with the help of technology.

— Neri Oxman

There's something very satisfying about creating a tactile product.

— Chad Hurley

By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the main design…

— Steven Chu

The materials shape your idea.

— Erik Spiekermann

Part of the elasticity that you need, in order to continue to try to create, is the foregone conclusion that not all of it…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I am a mechanical techie. I can build things with my hands.

— Evan Glodell

I have a fondness for technology. It's great to spend hours puttering around with mechanical things gotten from junkyards and visualizing what their use…

— Roger Zelazny

Trying different ways of doing things is what brings invention.

— Terry Mark

About half of all design patterns out there [...] appear to be ways take perfectly natural design ideas and twist them to fit into…

— Steve Yegge

Every technological product has to be designed and its fabrication overseen, and this is what engineers DO.

— Samuel Florman