Engineering Quotes

A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

Engineering is not quite as important as imagination.

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

I think the greatest curse of American society has been the idea of an easy millennialism -- that some new drug, or the next election or the latest in social engineering will solve everything.

The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering-that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.

Engineering without imagination sinks to a trade.

The more physics you have the less engineering you need.

The environmental crisis has deep spiritual, philosophical, and religious roots and causes. It is not merely the result of bad engineering.

Shall I refuse my dinner because I do not fully understand the process of digestion?

In order to fix it, you need a passionate anger about something that doesn't work well.

Engineering is the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man.

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.

Never in the annals of software engineering was so much owed by so many to so few lines of code

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

With the advent of genetic engineering the time required for the evolution of new species may literally collapse.

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.

The glory of science is, that it is freeing the soul, breaking the mental manacles, getting the brain out of bondage, giving courage to thought, filling the world with mercy, justice, and joy.

Engineering stimulates the mind.

Being a language, mathematics may be used not only to inform but also, among other things, to seduce.

I think the ethics and morals of genetic engineering are very complicated. It intrigues me.

We need all hands on deck, and that means clearing hurdles for women and girls as they navigate careers in science, technology, engineering, and math.

I suspect any worries about genetic engineering may be unnecessary. Genetic mutations have always happened naturally, anyway.

Engineering is a predictive science, not a manipulative art.

The trick to having good ideas is not to sit around in glorious isolation and try to think big thoughts. The trick is to get more parts on the table.

Code reuse is the Holy Grail of Software Engineering.

The first principle of architectural beauty is that the essential lines of a construction be determined by a perfect appropriateness to its use.

I believe in the unlimited power of women in the context of science and engineering.

The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.

Social Engineering - The art of replacing what works with what sounds good.

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

One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null word.

What's gotten in the way of education in the United States is a theory of social engineering that says there is ONE RIGHT WAY to proceed with growing up.

Leonardo Da Vinci combined art and science and aesthetics and engineering, that kind of unity is needed once again.

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

But not only medicine, engineering, and painting are arts; living itself is an art in fact, the most important and at the same time the most difficult and complex art to be practiced by man.

The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large.

Therefore, O students, study mathematics and do not build without foundations.

Inadequate use of usability engineering methods in software development projects have been estimated to cost the US economy about $30 billion per year in lost productivity.

Don't document bad code - rewrite it.

A beaver does not, as legend would have it, know which direction the tree will fall when he cuts it, but counts on alacrity to make up for lack of engineering expertise.

What need the bridge much broader than the flood?

Today, over half of China's undergraduate degrees are in math, science technology and engineering, yet only 16 percent of America's undergraduates pursue these schools.

India has the opportunity to be a leader in genetic engineering, It has institutions that no other country has.

Engineering and mixing are absolutely key. Once a song is done, for me personally, it's usually two or three days to get the mix down.

I don't know technology and engineering. I don't know accounting.

In the hands of a genius, engineering turns to magic, philosophy becomes poetry, and science pure imagination.

To succeed at re-engineering, you have to be a missionary, a motivator, and a leg breaker.

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

It's an ancient and honorable term for the final step in any engineering project. Turn it on, see if it smokes.