Famous Quotes & Sayings

I don't think you'll see the engine attrition you did in California, because this is a shorter race.

William Shakespeare

For 'Tis the sport to have the engineer hoisted with his own petard.

Benjamin Disraeli

He traces the steam engine all the way back to the tea kettle.

I wouldn't go as far as to say Germany is the reform engine of Europe, but it is making slow progress.

Scott Young

Shortly after takeoff ... I heard a kind of an explosion (coming from an engine on the right side), ... And then I smelled smoke.

She is the catalyst, the quarterback, she is the engine and everybody else feeds off of her. I can?t say enough about her. She?s my pride and joy, like a daughter, and she takes the game seriously.

Martin Winterkorn

I have always been driven by the ambition to solve every problem I face, whether as a scientist, engineer or entrepreneur.

Herbert Hoover

Engineering is a great profession.

Evan Davis

Historically, the British have always been rather wary of grand engineering projects - perhaps understandably, given that many of them have been delivered late and over budget.

Francis Crick

You can do reverse engineering, but you can’t do reverse hacking.

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.

He's like really the engine that runs this team. This team is just prepared for him to come back whenever he feels comfortable and after him and his wife and his family get over the grieving process.

Freeman Dyson

Every orchid or rose or lizard or snake is the work of a dedicated and skilled breeder. There are thousands of people, amateurs and professionals, who devote their lives to this business. Now imagine what will happen when the tools of genetic engineering become accessible to these people.

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.

Chris Riddell

I think stories can grow out of the visual. It can be an engine for literacy.

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.

Testing so far this year has gone extremely well. The engine performance is good and the chassis performance has been very strong. We will be going to the first race, Bahrain, in a strong position.

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.

Steven Strogatz

That's the phenomenon. Why did they all start moving in step? They did it unconsciously. That is what nobody had thought about and engineers did not anticipate.

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

Hire inexperience. This year we plan to hire 200 engineers - half of whom are recent grads. Young people are not burdened by years of experience. They haven't learned - or been told - what is right or wrong. With engineering, there is no tried and tested path. You try, and fail, and fix, and fail again.

James Dyson

[M]anufacturing, science and engineering are ... incredibly creative. I'd venture to say more so than creative advertising agencies and things that are known as the creative industries.

James Dyson

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

James Dyson

Engineering undergraduates should not be charged fees. They should receive grants, not student loans, and the government will get the money back long-term from increased exports.

Ernest Rutherford

The more physics you have the less engineering you need.

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.

Christian Louboutin

The heel is engineering in itself. This little thing that supports the human weight has to have a precise balance.