Engineers Quotes

206 quotes by 182 authors

[In Adelie Land, Antarctica, a howling river of] wind, 50 miles wide, blows off the plateau, month in and month out, at an average velocity… — Frank Debenham
The younger generation of rocket engineers is just beginning. They are of the new generation to which space travel is not going to be a… — Willy Ley
We need to have people up there who can communicate what it feels like, not just pilots and engineers. — Buzz Aldrin
She could have dropped you both off. whar's the worst she can do? cry hysterically?"the gears on the ute get stuck at the lights and… — Melina Marchetta
We grow up hearing so often that a straight line is the shortest distance between two points that we end up thinking it is also… — Thomas W. Horton
The object of universities is not to make skillful lawyers, physicians or engineers. It is to make capable and cultivated human beings — John Stuart Mill
Usability is not everything. If usability engineers designed a nightclub, it would be clean, quiet, brightly lit, with lots of places to sit down, plenty… — Joel Spolsky
More than ever, the world needs good engineers. However, the pool of talent is shrinking not growing. — Dean Kamen
It seems to me that it had no other rationale than to show that we are not simply the country of entertainers, but also that… — Gustave Eiffel
They basically ask their engineers to volunteer some probability figures, then they take the average. This is not science. This is voodoo, — Michio Kaku
From the comfort of distance, [Non resident Indians and Kashmiris] financially and emotionally support ideologies whose consequence they donâ€™t have to face. They are not… — Manu Joseph
[...] elite social engineers appear to be aiming at a "hetero-homo" world, i.e. where individuals are bisexual, promiscuous and bereft of family. — Henry Makow
Being the most striking manifestation of the art of metal structures by which our engineers have shown in Europe, it [the Eiffel Tower] is one… — Gustave Eiffel
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
He wondered what kind of blueprint beavers had for creating such a structure-or did they simply start aimlessly weaving stuff together until they had a… — Patrick F. McManus
Our journeys to the stars will be made on spaceships created by determined, hardworking scientists and engineers applying the principles of science, not aboard flying… — Robert A. Baker
Let's face it: Engineering companies in general have more men than women. Google has tried really hard to recruit women. On the other hand, we… — Susan Wojcicki
The life of an aviator seemed to me ideal. It involved skill. It brought adventure. It made use of the latest developments of science. Mechanical… — Charles Lindbergh
Design is a process - an intimate collaboration between engineers, designers, and clients. — Henry Dreyfuss
Electronic calculators can solve problems which the man who made them cannot solve; but no government-subsidized commission of engineers and physicists could create a worm. — Joseph Wood Krutch

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