Educated Quote by Frances Arnold

I never knew what an engineer did for a living when I was a kid. I still don't.

— Scott Adams

I didn't do the engineering, and I didn't do the math, because I thought I understood what was going on and I thought I…

— Jamie Hyneman

I was a student that responded well to knowing what to work on.

— Hilary Hahn

I say this as an engineer: We are profoundly bad at asking ourselves how the things we build could be misused.

— Brianna Wu

Many people think all I do is some random engineering work in between caving expeditions. It's been far more deliberate than that.

— William Stone

I only learned what an engineer was from a college guidance counselor. When she described it, a light clicked on in my head, and…

— Grant Imahara

I've always looked around and pretty much knew that I was built a little different.

— Julius Peppers

I had to learn everything about manufacturing, patents and how to run a business, and eventually I came up with an prototype that worked.

— Melissa George

At various times over 20 years, I did preliminary designs for aircraft like the Stratolaunch. For that whole time I was encouraging us to…

— Burt Rutan

My dad owns a company that lends equipment to industrial projects. I've been obsessed with taking it over since I could talk. I'd follow…

— Ruchi Sanghvi

I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how…

— Brian Eno

I built websites for myself. I didn't want to work for anyone else. I came from a science background, so I approached things fairly…

— Michael Birch