Engineering Quote by Bre Pettis

“There are many approaches to prototyping, but they share a single, paradoxical feature: They slow us down to speed us up. By taking the…

— Tim Brown

“your first idea is unlikely to be the best, so you should be optimising for speed of iteration rather than quality of prototype.”

— Adrian McEwen

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

— Samuel Florman

“Iterative, adaptive approach that recognized the importance of developing prototypes or else manually walking through how the system would work in great detail, to…

— Robert D. Austin

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

We're at a moment where people are rediscovering their ability to design, to create (engineer)and in essence, to become a true maker.

— Brit Morin

Few ideas work on the first try. Iteration is key to innovation.

— Sebastian Thrun

Manufacturing is more than just putting parts together. It's coming up with ideas, testing principles and perfecting the engineering, as well as final assembly.

— James Dyson

This is one of my favorites. People think of creativity as this sort of unbridled thing, but engineers thrive on constraints. They love to…

— Marissa Mayer

If you are truly innovating, you don't have a prototype you can refer to.

— Jonathan Ive

The problem with prototypes is they don't always work.

— Laurie Anderson

It's true that the original idea was mine, but what you see today is the work of probably tens of thousands of the world's…

— Jack Kilby