Design Quote by Martin Fleischmann

If we had improved materials that could be produced cheaply and in large quantities, certainly the thermoelectrics industry could move forward more quickly.

— Mildred Dresselhaus

When a project has an ample budget, I am interested now in using bigger units of materials.

— Yoshio Taniguchi

Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

The influence of electricity in producing decompositions, although of inestimable value as an instrument of discovery in chemical inquiries, can hardly be said to…

— Charles Babbage

“as normally solved by engineers, would require any number of perfectly reasonable but aesthetically displeasing approximations. Lawrence’s solution would provide exact results.”

— Neal Stephenson

Beautiful Evidence is about the theory and practice of analytical design.

— Edward Tufte

There's this phase in the middle of the process where there's still the potential that this will be great, but it's not a blank…

— Charlie Clouser

We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.

— Anonymous

For me, how an appliance looks is as important as how efficiently it works.

— Pranav Mistry

The work requires a moderately large investment in technological and theoretical developments and long periods of time to carry them out, without the pressure…

— Aaron Klug

Nanoengineering is learning how to make devices as small as 10 to 100 atoms in width. Much of the work is going on in…

— George M. Whitesides

Line printer paper is strongest at the perforations.

— Dave Barry