Engineering Quote by Charles Hugh Smith

Engineering isn't about perfect solutions; it's about doing the best you can with limited resources.

— Randy Pausch

Engineers, medical people, scientific people, have an obsession with solving the problems of reality, when actually ... once you reach a basic level of…

— Rory Sutherland

We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.

— Leon Kass

Relying on nothing but scientific knowledge to produce an engineering solution is to invite frustration at best and failure at worst.

— Henry Petroski

Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.

— Scott Adams

Engineering problems are under-defined, there are many solutions, good, bad and indifferent. The art is to arrive at a good solution. This is a…

— Ove Arup

We are surrounded by engineers' folleys: too many technical solutions still looking for problems to solve.

— David Tansley

Problem-solving is essential to engineering. Engineers are constantly on the lookout for a better way to do things.

— Dinesh Paliwal

Engineers and entrepreneurs are fundamentally dissatisfied with the way the world is and want to make it better. There are so many things you…

— Martin Cooper

This is one of my favorites. People think of creativity as this sort of unbridled thing, but engineers thrive on constraints. They love to…

— Marissa Mayer

Engineering is the application of scientific principles toward practical ends. If the engineering isn't practical, it's bad engineering.

— Steve McConnell

The idea of engineering is an idea of mastery. And today the role that we are being asked to play is a role based…

— Vandana Shiva