Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fyodor Dostoevsky

To strive consciously for an object and to engage in engineering -- that is, incessantly and eternally to make new roads, wherever they may lead.

Fred Brooks

The first step toward the management of disease was replacement of demon theories and humours theories by the germ theory. That very step, the beginning of hope, in itself dashed all hopes of magical solutions. It told workers that progress would be made stepwise, at great effort, and that a persistent, unremitting care would have to be paid to a discipline of cleanliness. So it is with software engineering today.

Elon Musk

Engineering is the closest thing to magic that exists in the world.

Before, there weren't a lot of questions about the size of the engine and the gas mileage.

None of us have enough engineers to do what we need to do. You get scale on the engineering level by doing alliances and you get scale on the costs.

J.D. is sick to his stomach over this. In all their years in NASCAR, they've never had an engine infraction. We'll probably get a fine, but J.D. said he was paying it.

Some of them are just as original as can be, and some of them, people don't know when to quit (with restoration). Even the engine compartments are a lot shinier than a lot of new cars, ... They are operational works of art.

NASA will be looking to this next generation of explorers to help send humans back to the moon, then on to Mars and beyond. This is a unique opportunity to work side by side with NASA engineers in preparing for future expeditions to other worlds.

H. G. Wells

There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.

James Dyson

Manufacturing is more than just putting parts together. It's coming up with ideas, testing principles and perfecting the engineering, as well as final assembly.

James Dyson

Engineering is treated with disdain, on the whole. It's considered to be rather boring and irrelevant, yet neither of those is true.

James Dyson

Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it.

Fritz Todt

For decades engineers have stood accused that their buildings do not have any cultural value. We have attempted to liberate engineering of this accusation.

Gordon Bell

The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there.

Isaac Asimov

Science can amuse and fascinate us all, but it is engineering that changes the world.

Isaac Asimov

The advance of genetic engineering makes it quite conceivable that we will begin to design our own evolutionary progress.

Steve Fossett

If I have engine trouble, there will be no trouble with gliding,

He's got an engine that just doesn't stop.

George S. Patton

I do not fear failure. I only fear the "slowing up" of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, "Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?

George Patton

I do not fear failure. I only fear the ''slowing up'' of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, ''Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?''

He did not mention it. It's more use for us to send engineers with road-clearing and snow-moving equipment - because it will be winter soon - than that sort of operation, which, to my knowledge, Pakistan has not requested.

Right now, our nation is in somewhat of a crisis. We don't have now and are not producing now enough engineers to keep the United States competitive in a global market.

If there are engineers out there looking for jobs, we have the resources.

Greg Biffle

The engine at California, and then this. This tore up my car, my favorite one. I sat on the pole at Vegas with it, and might have won here.

James Gleick

Alphabetical order had to be invented to help people organize the first dictionaries. On the other hand, we may have reached a point where alphabetical order has gone obsolete. Wikipedia is ostensibly in alphabetical order, but, when you think about it, it's not in any order at all. You use a search engine to get into it.

James Grant

Progress is cumulative in science and engineering, but cyclical in finance.

William Shakespeare

Once more the engine of her thoughts began. . . .

Bradley Horowitz

The next major shift is going to be about more than which search engine has the most documents. What's next is an experience that is personalized, that gets better the more I use it.

Greg Biffle

It's frustrating. We didn't have an engine failure all season last year.

The construction engine was firing on all cylinders.

Henry Petroski

Engineering is achieving function while avoiding failure.

As I was turning around to come back. My engine shut off and it ran out of gas.

Duane Brown

All of us would be terribly frightened if we had an engine fire, or a serious mechanical problem. People know that it does happen, and it takes no imagination to know that planes do crash.