Engineering Quote by John Sladek

“Engineering is the art and science of nuts and bolts.”

— Haresh Sippy

“The fewer moving parts, the better." "Exactly. No truer words were ever spoken in the context of engineering.”

— Christian Cantrell

“Bolts work on nuts; pens work on paper. But you must work on yourself. Go, get working!”

— Israelmore Ayivor

As the component parts of all new machines may be said to be old[,] it is a nice discriminating judgment, which discovers that a…

— Robert Fulton

Industry jargon may not be a language your customer understands.

— Ron Kaufman

“You start off as Mr X, who happens to be an engineer, and sooner or later you're just an engineer who happens to be…

— Antal Szerb

“Engineering, this is ops! Status report!”

— David Mack

Jargon: any technical language we do not understand.

— Mason Cooley

“As long as we are engaged in this orgy of unnecessary terminology and notation…”

— David J. Griffiths

“Distinguish between you as the designer of your machine and you as a worker with your machine.”

— Ray Dalio

To know the machine one must know where each part belongs, and what its office is.

— Horace Mann

“we really fucked up the engineering on this”

— Walter Isaacson