All things Quote by Rube Goldberg

I've always written. I'm from an older generation of programmers [who] did not come out of engineering. [A]ll sorts of people were drawn in…

— Ellen Ullman

For me writing is as close to being an engineer as possible.

— Guy Kawasaki

Most people won't realise that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else.

— Katherine Anne Porter

Now, when I was in the Army, writing was my hobby.

— Brian Lumley

I do not write, I build.

— Alvar Aalto

I happen to hold a bachelor of science degree in geology... And my greatest contribution to the field of science is that I never…

— Colin Powell

I didn't aspire to write and never considered it as a career option.

— Vantile Whitfield

I didn't write. I just wandered about.

— Martha Gellhorn

I'm an engineer by training.

— Frances Arnold

I'm not an engineer. I did not study engineering in school. But I was a super ambitious student growing up.

— Simone Giertz

By training, I'm an engineer, but I don't tell anyone because it bores people.

— Marcel Wanders

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

— Scott Adams