Engineer Quotes
288 quotes by 252 authors
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A lawyer’s either a social engineer or … a parasite on society … A social engineer [is] a highly skilled, perceptive, sensitive lawyer who [understands]…
— Charles Hamilton Houston
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Ugly programs are like ugly suspension bridges: they're much more liable to collapse than pretty ones, because the way humans (especially engineer-humans) perceive beauty is…
— Eric S. Raymond
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I own me, and therefore, I can engineer me. I am me, and I am Okay.
— Virginia Satir
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You can’t mandate [cultural change], can’t engineer it. What you can do is create the conditions for transformation. You can provide incentives. You can define…
— Lou Gerstner
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In rich and captivating prose, Jessica DuLong kindly invites the rest of us on the journey of her lifetime: from a dot-com job to the…
— Jon Meacham
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Whether you're a farmer, builder or engineer, the opportunities are equal: Just add a little innovation.
— Strive Masiyiwa
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Having a mother who had been an aeronautical engineer convinced me that more things should be open to women.
— Elizabeth Moon
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An Engineer is no match for a Historian with his dander up!
— Philip Reeve
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My dad was an engineer and so I had this picture of science and technology and pursuits of the mind as being more impressive than…
— Scott McCloud
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Deftly engineered. McCarthy challenges us all - not just engineers - to take responsibility for the ways in which we all increasingly engineer the world.
— Carl Mitcham
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Industrialism implies technology and the cutting of time into precise fragments suited to the needs of the engineer and the accountant.
— Harold Innis
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Every time I went into the studio some engineer tried to impress me with how they're going to capture my sound with all kinds of…
— Dick Dale
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Most of the work performed by a development engineer results in failure.
— Koichi Tanaka
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Everything that you've learned: 'Make a lot of money, have a nice house'. But they never teach you at school how to relate, how to…
— Jacque Fresco
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The majority of the people of the world today are unsane, not insane, unsane meaning having been exposed to methods of evaluation that have long…
— Jacque Fresco
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We live technologically, with man as the master of nature, man as the engineer, and let anyone who raises his voice against it stop using…
— Max Frisch
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Ambition is a gilded misery, a secret poison, a hidden plague, the engineer of deceit, the mother of hypocrisy, the parent of envy, the original…
— Thomas Brooks
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Watch with awe and amazement at how quickly an engineer will become totally annoyed by inefficiency.
— Rands
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It has been said that an engineer is a man who can do for ten shillings what any fool can do for a pound; if…
— Nevil Shute
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But I live very simply. I farm - there is something visceral about being attached to the land. I am a recording engineer. I do…
— Sandra Lerner
Who Wrote These Engineer Quotes
252 authors contributed a total of 288 Engineer Quotes, led by these top contributors: