Engineer Quotes

288 quotes by 252 authors

My mum brought me to my first job when I was 12. I started electrical work at her plant. She was an engineer, a technical… — Oleg Deripaska
I can't stop watching 'Pan Am.' When I was growing up, my father worked as an engineer in Turkey, and we always flew Pan Am.… — Gayle King
The [engineer] should be equipped with knowledge of many branches of study and varied kinds of learning, for it is by his judgement that all… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'd have no trouble being the barbecue kingpin of America. I'd just add it to all the other things I am: jazz musician, carpenter, architect,… — Bobby Seale
Don't drag the engine, like an ignoramus, but bring wood and water and flame, like an engineer. — Maria Weston Chapman
Engineering stimulates the mind. Kids get bored easily. They have got to get out and get their hands dirty: make things, dismantle things, fix things.… — Bruce Dickinson
I'll tell you something: my dad was a nuclear engineer and he was really bright, and I've always said that because of negotiating at such… — Faith Prince
My parents, and especially my mother, encouraged by the director of the local school which I was attending, wanted in spite of everything to send… — Leon Jouhaux
I would say the most help I got was from my dad. My dad is a civil engineer in Switzerland; he's 90 years old now,… — Claude Nicollier
The Engineer is one who, in the world of physics and applied sciences, begets new things, or adapts old things to new and better uses;… — Henry R. Towne
To Monsieur Eiffel the Engineer, the brave builder of so gigantic and original a specimen of modern Engineering from one who has the greatest respect… — Thomas A. Edison
I'd been in a couple situations where I'd seen bands realize that they didn't have to get a good take in order to get something… — J. Robbins
One of my favorite things as an engineer is watching a band get comfortable in the studio and getting a great take. Like, they're playing… — J. Robbins
When a manufacturing engineer is hired to create new products but insists on sharing his "wisdom" in accounting with the company controller, he is not… — Chin-Ning Chu
My father was an engineer, .. But I found out that the film critics for the Stanford Daily got free passes for all the films.… — Roger Corman
George Washington was quite a farmer. He was a farmer, Civil Engineer and gentleman. He made enough at civil engineering to indulge in both the… — Will Rogers
We normally learn at least as much from our mistakes as we do from our successes. The best development driver/engineer I ever knew once told… — Carroll Smith
Lazy Line Painter Jane - it was an insane way to make a record! It was just in a church hall, no separate rooms for… — Stevie Jackson
In the early days I'd be slaving over a mixing desk. I'm not a recording engineer but I used to mix the record. We used… — Stevie Jackson

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