Acumen Quote by Bibhu Mohapatra

My dad was an engineer and so I had this picture of science and technology and pursuits of the mind as being more impressive…

— Scott McCloud

My father was a master carpenter and builder. Architectural design, engineering design, mechanical design, three-dimensional views, that was my shtick, my forte.

— Bobby Seale

My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment - my father is an electromechanical engineer.…

— Elon Musk

When I was four or five years old, my grandfather showed me how to build things, paint, saw. Through years of fixing bikes, repairing…

— Tony Fadell

My father was a world-class scientist and my mother was a prolific painter. I could see that my parents had completely different ways of…

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing…

— Rita Dove

Understanding the materials I work with... gives me a deeper understanding of my place. And it's helped me make sense of the changes that…

— Andy Goldsworthy

I usually describe myself as an engineer; that's basically what I've been doing since I was a kid.

— Elon Musk

My father, an engineer, was the gentlest man I knew.

— Kevin McCloud

Except for when I was very little and thought that being an "engineer" meant he drove a train. Then I imagined him in the…

— Nicole Krauss

In my day-to-day life, I did learn to be passionately curious from my dad and always search and have a hunger for knowledge and…

— Maverick Carter

I grew up watching my father work, and learning from him what good quality is. I took from him the passion to create beautiful…

— Diego Della Valle