Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bruce Dickinson

Don't ask me to put up a shelf, but I love engineering.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

An engineer cannot participate in irrationality ...

Alfred P. Sloan

Advanced engineering always, like advanced everything else, brings down upon it the discredit of ridicule of minds who cannot see so far.

Debi Thomas

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

I do engineering, not religion.

Andrew Cuomo

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

Ray Kurzweil

Those with engineering skills will build tomorrow's genius computers. But those with the ability to create knowledge of any kind will be the ones who are best able to extract great value from them. The way to create value in the age of genius machines will be to compile and disseminate knowledge that other people will find useful.

Simon Newcomb

All attempts at artificial aviation are not only dangerous to human life, but foredoomed to failure from the engineering standpoint.

Michio Kaku

What we usually consider as impossible are simply engineering problems... there's no law of physics preventing them.

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.

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.

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.

James Grant

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

Henry Petroski

Engineering is achieving function while avoiding failure.

Arthur Ganson

I happen to love engineering. I love figuring things out in a spatial sense, that whole realm of working with mechanical parts, and the relationship of the parts, and things like ratios and the speeds of particular objects.