Engineer Quotes

288 quotes by 252 authors

As you may know, I am a mechanical engineer. — Bill Nye
People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an… — Gary Oldman
Pictures, abstract symbols, materials, and colors are among the ingredients with which a designer or engineer works. To design is to discover relationships and to… — Paul Rand
My background is in physics, so I was the mission specialist, who is sort of like the flight engineer on an airplane. — Sally Ride
In my first start-up, I had an initial advertising budget of $5 per day total. That would buy us 100 clicks per day. At $5… — Eric Ries
The engineer, and more generally the designer, is concerned with how things ought to be - how they ought to be in order to attain… — Herbert Simon
When I was growing up, I installed refrigerators in supermarkets. My father was an electrical engineer. — Will Smith
I have been a systems engineer, systems administrator, a senior adviser for the Central Intelligence Agency, a solutions consultant and a telecommunications information systems officer. — Edward Snowden
The writer is the engineer of the human soul. — Joseph Stalin
If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for… — Ben Stein
I think of myself as an engineer, not as a visionary or 'big thinker.' I don't have any lofty goals. — Linus Torvalds
Hey, I'm a good software engineer, but I'm not exactly known for my fashion sense. White socks and sandals don't translate to 'good design sense'. — Linus Torvalds
After I changed the string we picked up right where we left off - and punched back in at the same time. I don't know… — Stevie Ray Vaughan
Another hero was Tom Swift, in the books. What he stood for, the freedom, the scientific knowledge and being and engineer gave him the ability… — Steve Wozniak
Both destiny's kisses and its dope-slaps illustrate an individual person's basic personal powerlessness over the really meaningful events in his life: i.e. almost nothing important… — David Foster Wallace
By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out. -this quote is actually found in Carl Sagan's book The… — Richard Dawkins
Except for when I was very little and thought that being an "engineer" meant he drove a train. Then I imagined him in the seat… — Nicole Krauss
You are a manipulator. I like to think of myself more as an outcome engineer. — J R Ward
We got half the doggone MIT college of engineering here, and nobody who can fix a doggone /television/?" Dr. Joseph Abernathy glared accusingly at the… — Diana Gabaldon
The light beyond my eyes flashflashflashes with a hundred futures for me. Doctor. Ship's captain. Forest ranger. Librarian. Beloved of that man or that women… — Laurie Halse Anderson

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