Appearance Quote by Peter Behrens

A mechanic is just an engineer in blue jeans.

— Daniel H. Wilson

The complicated engines manufactured by men demand, if one really wants to use them, much calm. Ever since our love for machines replaced the…

— Man Ray

Day-to-day things, the mundane, are what keeps the motor running. How extraordinary the ordinary really is, a tool we all use to keep going,…

— Cecelia Ahern

I think there are a lot of technocrats in the business who would much rather work with just wheels and gears and machinery. Those…

— Ron Perlman

The motors I build there were exactly as I imagined them. I made no attempt to improve the design, but merely reproduced the pictures…

— Nikola Tesla

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

As an inventor, it's a rite of passage to have an engine. I'd like to have my own engine someday.

— Lonnie Johnson

The machine is impersonal, it takes the pride away from a piece of work, the individual merits and defects that go along with allwork…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

First rule of engineering; beware prototypes. Along with, avoid anything made by an engineer who doesn't have all his own fingers.

— Simon R. Green

The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A designer must always think about the unfortunate production engineer who will have to manufacture what you have designed; try to understand his problems.

— Raymond Loewy

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

— Samuel Florman