Architecture Quote by Nancy G. Leveson

Every technological product has to be designed and its fabrication overseen, and this is what engineers DO.

— Samuel Florman

The central activity of engineering, as distinguished from science, is the design of new devices, processes and systems.

— Myron Tribus

The world of design has been subjugated by the rigors of manufacturing and mass production.

— Neri Oxman

Engineering or technology is all about using the power of science to make life better for people, to reduce cost, to improve comfort, to…

— N. R. Narayana Murthy

Engineering is the professional and systematic application of science to the efficient utilization of natural resources to produce wealth.

— Theodore J. Hoover

Engineering is the art of managing scarcity - it's easy to design and build a massive bridge that will last forever if cost is…

— Joe Lonsdale

Because they are so humbled by their creations, engineers are naturally conservative in their expectations of technology. They know that the perfect system is…

— Henry Petroski

Design... is the integration of technological, social, and economical requirements, biological necessities, and the psychological effects of materials, shape, color, volume and space.

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

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

Technology proposes itself as the architect of our intimacies.

— Sherry Turkle

To go back to architecture, whats organic about architecture as a field, unlike product design, is this whole issue of holism and of monumentality…

— Greg Lynn

“Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure.”

— Melvyn Conway