Engineering Quotes

452 quotes by 350 authors

The 19th century was the great period of engineering, thanks to the railways, thanks to lots of discoveries in metallurgy. — Joe Harris
I use minimal software to make my music - a wav editor and a calculator for my beats to make sure everything falls on mathematical… — Girl Talk
Similarly for marking exercises, quantitative exercises, maybe not so much in mathematics, but certainly problem sets in physics, chemistry, and engineering and things like that… — David Gelernter
Architecture begins where engineering ends. — Walter Gropius
What made Manhattan Manhattan was the underground infrastructure, that engineering marvel. — Andrew Cuomo
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed. — Charles Darwin
Crossrail is a prime example of infrastructure. It is a rather deadly word, but I think it is exciting stuff, the civil engineering which makes… — Evan Davis
Historically, the British have always been rather wary of grand engineering projects - perhaps understandably, given that many of them have been delivered late and… — Evan Davis
Phyllis is one of the tunnel boring machines for Crossrail and one of the most extraordinary characters I met, visiting some of the most exciting… — Evan Davis
The same undisciplined government spending and social engineering that has undermined our economy over the past 30 years has also been tearing at the social… — Stockwell Day
I look most like myself... when I'm wearing my black, nerdy engineering glasses. — Junot Diaz
Don't ask me to put up a shelf, but I love engineering. — Bruce Dickinson
Engineering stimulates the mind. — Bruce Dickinson
I like engineering, but I love the creative input. — John Dykstra
A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original… — Freeman Dyson
Aviation is the branch of engineering that is least forgiving of mistakes. — Freeman Dyson
Engineering undergraduates should not be charged fees. They should receive grants, not student loans, and the government will get the money back long-term from increased… — James Dyson
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
Engineering is treated with disdain, on the whole. It's considered to be rather boring and irrelevant, yet neither of those is true. — James Dyson
Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it. — James Dyson

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