Famous Quotes & Sayings

There's always something that an engineer can do to make microscopes better.

Leah Busque

I'm an engineer turned entrepreneur who's passionate about connection.

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.

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.

I do engineering, not religion.

And then, when I went into the Navy, there was no choice. You took about half of the hours during your naval training as naval courses and the other half were engineering.

Debi Thomas

So I went for engineering, specifically product design, which I enjoyed.

Drew Endy

Biological engineering is not necessarily understanding systems but rather, I want to be able to design and build biological systems to perform particular applications.

Dolph Lundgren

I used to be a chemical-engineering student, but I started studying acting, and I went for a cattle call, up against hundreds of people. They tore me down because I was too tall. They said "How tall are you?" "6'5"." "Next.

Donald Knuth

An algorithm must be seen to be believed.

Andrew Cuomo

What made Manhattan Manhattan was the underground infrastructure, that engineering marvel.

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.

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.

Oliver E. Williamson

My first jobs after graduation in 1955 were as a project engineer for G.E. and later with the U.S. government in Washington, D.C., where I met and married my wife, Dolores Celini.

Edsger Dijkstra

The required techniques of effective reasoning are pretty formal, but as long as programming is done by people that don't master them, the software crisis will remain with us and will be considered an incurable disease. And you know what incurable diseases do: they invite the quacks and charlatans in, who in this case take the form of Software Engineering gurus.

Atul Gawande

Checklists turn out...to be among the basic tools of the quality and productivity revolution in aviation, engineering, construction - in virtually every field combining high risk and complexity. Checklists seem lowly and simplistic, but they help fill in for the gaps in our brains and between our brains.

Carl Guardino

Many of those founders were not only engineers but immigrants.

Craig Venter

I think future engineered species could be the source of food, hopefully a source of energy, environmental remediation and perhaps replacing the petrochemical industry.

Henry Petroski

Because they are so humbled by their creations, engineers are naturally conservative in their expectations of technology. They know that the perfect system is the stuff of science fiction, not of engineering fact, and so everything must be treated with respect.

A student would take a semester off to work for an engineer and gain an understanding of particular companies.

Ryan Holmes

Social media, for all of its limitations, is rarely irrelevant. The stream of updates on your Facebook page, for instance, is algorithmically engineered to be darn-near irresistible.

Dale Jarrett

It's incredible what has taken place. I think that's why we see so many competitive teams now, because not only with what NASCAR has done with templates and things, but the engineers we have involved now.

The Fed seems to have engineered a soft landing.

Cynthia Ozick

The engineering is secondary to the vision.

Clifford Stoll

The first time you do something, it's science. The second time, it's engineering. The third time, it's just being a technician. I'm a scientist. Once I do something, I want to do something else.

Fifteen seconds, seems huge to me. We have engineers who say, if you could give me 100 nanoseconds, it would be useful.

Fifteen seconds, seems huge to me, ... We have engineers who say, if you could give me 100 nanoseconds, it would be useful.

Fifteen seconds, seems huge to me, ... We have engineers who say, 'If you could give me 100 nanoseconds, it would be useful.'

Steven Strogatz

The phenomenon was that people who were walking at random, at their own favorite speed, not organized in any way, spontaneously synchronized, ... 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.

David Chipperfield

I do quite like Gehry's Guggenheim. But where in Bilbao it's seen as an outgrowth of years of investment in urban design and engineering, in Britain it's seen as the catalyst for urban regeneration rather than the icing on the cake.

We're trying to engineer out some of the errors. We steal shamelessly from everybody and everywhere that has good training programs.

Johnny Ball

Women make such excellent scientists and engineers - because of their passion for learning and will-power to succeed. They out-perform the lads in science all the way through school, but somehow are put off engineering and science at a higher level, and that is so very sad.

Vandana Shiva

Genetic engineering has never been about saving the world, it's about controlling the world.