Engineering Quotes
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We really fucked up the engineering on this
— Walter Isaacson
Thirty percent of Americans have German blood in their family. I don't see any major difference in the engineering abilities of Americans and Germans.
— Hasso Plattner
To his and everybody else's way of thinking, you should build a house with your own hands before you start talking about being an engineer.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Art Nouveau got its inspiration from nature. The Bauhaus got its inspiration from engineering.
— P. J. O'Rourke
When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.
— William Gibson
Generally, the craft of programming is the factoring of a set of requirements into a a set of functions and data structures.
— Douglas Crockford
I have succeeded in getting my actual work down to thirty minutes a day. That leaves me eighteen hours for engineering.
— Charles Proteus Steinmetz
The letter e may now no longer be used to denote anything other than this positive universal constant.
— Edmund Landau
Great triumphs of engineering genius - the locomotive, the truss bridge, the steel rail - ... are rather invention than engineering proper.
— Arthur Mellen Wellington
I don't know technology and engineering. I don't know accounting.
— Bernard Ebbers
Engineering without imagination sinks to a trade.
— Herbert Hoover
There's just one other twist. Googlers working in engineering or product management can nominate themselves for promotion.
— Laszlo Bock
In engineering colleges, they have seating plans ... And Students have cheating plans.
— Lovely Goyal
The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned.
— Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
Smart isn't enough. The kind of people I want on my research team are those who will help everyone else feel happy to be here. p118
— Randy Pausch
Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
— Karl Popper
Meditation is the best engineering.
— Kedar Joshi
I never had a doubt that I wanted to do engineering.
— Mo Ibrahim
In the next decade we plan to create the first gender balance engineering school in Africa. We believe women should be part of the solution.
— Patrick Awuah Jr.
For every scientific (or engineering) action, there is an equal and opposite social reaction.
— Norman Ralph Augustine
Proper accounting is like engineering. You need a margin of safety. Thank God we don't design bridges and airplanes the way we do accounting.
— Charlie Munger
I believe, given enough time, all of engineering will move to paradigms based on the biological cell.
— Brian Bennudriti
The future of Africa is in innovative engineering.
— Erik Hersman
For the future, primarily, we must educate people in science, engineering, technology and math.
— Buzz Aldrin
Information theory began as a bridge from mathematics to electrical engineering and from there to computing.
— James Gleick
You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.
— Ken Robinson
The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Code reuse is the Holy Grail of Software Engineering.
— Douglas Crockford
When you engineer early successes, what you're really doing is engineering hope. Hope is precious to a change effort.
— Chip Heath
Failure is Central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation.
— Henry Petroski
I like engineering, but I love the creative input.
— John Dykstra
Communication is like the basics of mechanical engineering, the more moving parts you have the more likely it is to break down!
— Garrison Wynn
Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences - large scale engineering, neuroscience.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
Environmental spending creates jobs in engineering, manufacturing, construction, materials, operations and maintenance.
— Keith Ellison
Happiness is German engineering, Italian cooking, and Belgian chocolate.
— Patricia Briggs
Art and design are not luxuries, nor somehow incompatible with science and engineering,
— Bran Ferren
Teachers need to be more inspirational. But it's also up to engineering to make itself more interesting.
— Bruce Dickinson
If it is not written down, it does not exist.
— Philippe Kruchten
Women, on the other hand, had to wield their intellects like a scythe, hacking away against the stubborn underbrush of low expectations.
— Margot Lee Shetterly
Referring to his success in engineering the appointment
— Paul M. Barrett
Science is about knowing; engineering is about doing.
— Henry Petroski
'Social engineering,' the fancy term for tricking you into giving away your digital secrets, is at least as great a threat as spooky technology.
— Barton Gellman
The most dangerous belief for any software company today is that the solution to their adoption problem lies in better software engineering.
— Stephen O'Grady
You see, my ambition was not to confound the engineering world but simply to create a beautiful piece of art.
— Kit Williams
I suspect any worries about genetic engineering may be unnecessary. Genetic mutations have always happened naturally, anyway.
— James Lovelock
Engineering is a fantastic base for any career.
— Chris Liddell
One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null word.
— Robert A. Heinlein
What made Manhattan Manhattan was the underground infrastructure, that engineering marvel.
— Andrew Cuomo
The science and engineering of programming just isn't good enough to produce flawless software, and that isn't going to change anytime soon. The
— Bruce Schneier
To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing for 10 shillings what any fool can do for a pound
— Duke Of Wellington
I believe in the unlimited power of women in the context of science and engineering.
— Elizabeth Holmes
Basically, if I have no intention of using a service then I won't bother reverse-engineering it.
— Jon Johansen
The Mississippi River will always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise ...
— Mark Twain
Edward Bellamy's eugenic utopian novel, "Looking Backward" was the inspiration for American Progressivism.
— A.E. Samaan
Engineering is a basic instinct in man, the expression of which is existentially fulfilling.
— Samuel Florman
Change flows organically from the students themselves.
— David Edward Goldberg
Engineering is easy - it's the people problems that are hard.
— Temple Grandin
Incurable diseases will eventually force mankind to justify
disruptive nanotech and genetic engineering. — Toba Beta
The notion that better engineering can solve all our problems is rooted in an ignorance of non-linear systems and selective/wishful thinking.
— Charles Hugh Smith
Software Engineering is that part of Computer Science which is too difficult for the Computer Scientist.
— Friedrich L. Bauer
Communication engineering began with Gauss, Wheatstone, and the first telegraphers.
— Norbert Wiener
Style is engineering that gives you freedom.
— Chris Bangle
Death is an engineering problem.
— Bart Kosko
I think they are a better race than humans ever were.
— Angelo Tsanatelis
The switch from 'steam engines' to 'heat engines' signals the transition from engineering practice to theoretical science.
— Hans Christian Von Baeyer
Combining influencing tactics, such as authority and scarcity, can strengthen any social engineering campaign for maximum results.
— Jeremiah Talamantes
Many of the issues we face in dealing with rapid climate change are well suited to an engineering mind.
— Larry Brilliant
Engineering college students should be encouraged to start entrepreneurial ventures in their second year itself. It is safer to fail while in college.
— Kris Gopalakrishnan
Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.
— Scott Adams
