Engineering Quotes

452 quotes by 350 authors

What is commonly overlooked in using the computer is the fact that the central goal of design is still to obviate failure, and thus it… — Henry Petroski
A failed structure provides a counterexample to a hypothesis and shows us incontrovertibly what cannot be done, while a structure that stands without incident often… — Henry Petroski
Hippocrates is an excellent geometer but a complete fool in everyday affairs. — Aristotle
The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree. — Aristotle
Being a language, mathematics may be used not only to inform but also, among other things, to seduce. — Benoit Mandelbrot
Forcing automakers to sell smaller cars to improve fuel economy [is like]... fighting the nation's obesity problem by forcing clothing manufacturers to sell garments in… — Bob Lutz
Trying to determine the structure of a protein by UV spectroscopy was like trying to determine the structure of a piano by listening to the… — Francis Crick
Keep a sharp lookout upon your materials; get rid of every pound of material you can do without; put to yourself the question what business… — Henry Maudslay
I am opposed to the laying down of rules or conditions to be observed in the construction of bridges lest the progress of improvement tomorrow… — Isambard Kingdom Brunel
I will be sufficiently rewarded if when telling it to others you will not claim the discovery as your own, but will say it was… — Thales
When you're young, you're not afraid of what comes next. You're excited by it. — Dave Grohl
There is no one area of chemical engineering that specifically helped me in my career as an astronaut, it was more the general education in… — Leroy Chiao
I believe that the time has arrived for medical investigation of the problems of manned rocket flight, for it will not be the engineering problems… — Wernher von Braun
As I considered the matter carefully it gradually came to light that all those matters only were referred to mathematics in which order and measurements… — Rene Descartes
They say there were birds who used to soar through the skies like planes.It seems strange that a small animal could achieve anything as complex… — Tahereh Mafi
Engineering without imagination sinks to a trade. — Herbert Hoover
To make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That's what got me into software engineering when I was a kid. I wanted to make… — Elon Musk
Writers acquire their technique by spotting, savoring, and reverse-engineering examples of good prose. — Steven Pinker
Some survived due to advancements in engineering. Personally I'd take a vaccine over living in an iron lung. http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/01/what-america-looked-like-polio-children-paralyzed-in-iron-lungs/251098/ — Howard Tayler
Engineering is the closest thing to magic that exists in the world. — Elon Musk

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