Engineering Quotes

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All of physics is either impossible or trivial. It is impossible until you understand it, and then it becomes trivial.

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

I don't know why I always liked aerospace engineering. I was in the 10th grade when I figured that's what I wanted to do.

When wireless is fully applied the earth will be converted into a huge brain, capable of response in every one of its parts.

At that time [1909] the chief engineer was almost always the chief test pilot as well. That had the fortunate result of eliminating poor engineering early in aviation.

Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been.

Strive for perfection in everything you do.

I did graduate with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1948.

An algorithm must be seen to be believed.

I was in school studying civil engineering. A guy approached me on the street and said that I had a interesting look-very exotic. He told me I should try to be in the industry.

Experimental confirmation of a prediction is merely a measurement. An experiment disproving a prediction is a discovery.

Architecture begins where engineering ends.

Take the best that exists and make it better.

The engineering of consent is the very essence of the democratic process, the freedom to persuade and suggest.

Social engineering bypasses all technologies, including firewalls.

Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.

My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.

The purpose of a business is to get and keep a customer. Without customers, no amount of engineering wizardry, clever financing, or operations expertise can keep a company going.

Audiophiles don't use their equipment to listen to your music. Audiophiles use your music to listen to their equipment.

An osteopath is only a human engineer, who should understand all the laws governing his engine and thereby master disease.

Basically, if reverse engineering is banned, then a lot of the open source community is doomed to fail.

Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Trying to determine the structure of a protein by UV spectroscopy was like trying to determine the structure of a piano by listening to the sound it made while being dropped down a flight of stairs.

A problem well stated is a problem half-solved.

The Mississippi River will always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise.

Basically, if I have no intention of using a service then I won't bother reverse-engineering it.

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

It is a simple feat of scientific electrical engineering — only expensive — blind, faint-hearted, doubting world.

To say that a man is made up of certain chemical elements is a satisfactory description only for those who intend to use him as a fertilizer.

Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called an engineering discipline.

Any person or organization depends ultimately on public approval, and is therefore faced with the problem of engineering the public's consent to a program or goal.

Indeed, the woes of Software Engineering are not due to lack of tools, or proper management, but largely due to lack of sufficient technical competence.

Scientists study the world as it is, engineers create the world that never has been.

Social engineering is using deception, manipulation and influence to convince a human who has access to a computer system to do something, like click on an attachment in an e-mail.

One is always a long way from solving a problem until one actually has the answer.

Science is the study of what Is, Engineering builds what Will Be. The scientist merely explores that which exists, while the engineer creates what has never existed before.

Available energy is the main object at stake in the struggle for existence and the evolution of the world.

Architects and engineers are among the most fortunate of men since they build their own monuments with public consent, public approval and often public money.

The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.

To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing for 10 shillings what any fool can do for a pound

I suppose the reason I chose electrical engineering was because I had always been interested in electricity, involving myself in such projects as building radios from the time I was a child.

Asian countries produce eight times as many engineering bachelors as the United States, and the number of U.S. students graduating at the masters and PhD levels in these areas is declining.

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

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

Engineering is the art or science of making practical.

I like engineering, but I love the creative input.

When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.

An API that isn't comprehensible isn't usable.

It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering.

The key to social engineering is influencing a person to do something that allows the hacker to gain access to information or your network.