Engineers Quotes

206 quotes by 182 authors

One principle problem of educating software engineers is that they will not use a new method until they believe it works and, more importantly, that… — Watts Humphrey
Creativity is not just for artists. It's for businesspeople looking for a new way to close a sale; it's for engineers trying to solve a… — Twyla Tharp
Writers are the engineers of human souls. — Joseph Stalin
The securitisation of mortgages added a new dimension of systemic risk. Financial engineers claimed they were reducing risks through geographic diversification: in fact they were… — George Soros
When a decision is made to cope with the symptoms of a problem, it is generally assumed that the corrective measures will solve the problem… — Masanobu Fukuoka
Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. In area… — Thomas Sowell
Qualified software engineers, managers, marketers and salespeople in Silicon Valley can rack up dozens of high-paying, high-upside job offers any time they want, while national… — Marc Andreessen
Painters were also attorneys, happy storytellers of anecdote, psychologists, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists, engineers, but there were no creative painters. — Kazimir Malevich
Engineers do engineering, i.e. they build bridges. So engineering needs engineers. The economy does NOT need economists. Economists do not make economy, but they try… — Steve Keen
This is one of my favorites. People think of creativity as this sort of unbridled thing, but engineers thrive on constraints. They love to think… — Marissa Mayer
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
Engineers are really good at labeling and branding things. If we had named Kentucky Fried Chicken, it would have been Hot Dead Birds. — Vinton Cerf
Everyone wins when children - and especially girls â€“ have access to education. An educated girl is likely to increase her personal earning potential and… — Angelique Kidjo
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
Great numbers of children will be born who understand electronics and atomic power as well as other forms of energy. They will grow into scientists… — Edgar Cayce
I keep saying the sexy job in the next ten years will be statisticians. People think I'm joking, but who would've guessed that computer engineers… — Hal Varian
Aesthetics has become too important to be left to the aesthetes. To succeed, hard-nosed engineers, real estate developers, and MBAs must take aesthetic communication, and… — Virginia Postrel
Every technological product has to be designed and its fabrication overseen, and this is what engineers DO. — Samuel Florman
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
Engineers are not superhuman. They make mistakes in their assumptions, in their calculations, in their conclusions. That they make mistakes is forgivable; that they catch… — Henry Petroski

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