Engineering Quotes

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

Genetic engineering is a result of science advancement, so I don't think that in itself is bad.

[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.

I do engineering, not religion.

In engineering, people have a big margin of safety. But in the financial world, people don't give a damn about safety. They let it balloon and balloon and balloon. It's aided by false accounting.

All we know about the new economic world is that nations which train engineers will prevail over those which train lawyers. No nation has ever sued its way to greatness.

To define it rudely but not inaptly, engineering is the art of doing that well with one dollar which any bungler can do with two after a fashion.

My father was a master carpenter and builder. Architectural design, engineering design, mechanical design, three-dimensional views, that was my shtick, my forte.

Forcing automakers to sell smaller cars to improve fuel economy [is like]... fighting the nation's obesity problem by forcing clothing manufacturers to sell garments in only small sizes.

Engineering is achieving function while avoiding failure.

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

There has been a substitution of ideology for fact and scientific and engineering data in this administration.

Once confined to fantasy and science fiction, time travel is now simply an engineering problem.

If I were 21 years old, I would go into biotechnology or genetic engineering.

At the fourth grade level, girls at the same percentages of boys say they're interested in careers in engineering or math or astrophysics, but by eighth grade that has dropped precipitously.

Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.

Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.

We don’t care about what you did yesterday—we care about what you’re going to do tomorrow.

Proper accounting is like engineering. You need a margin of safety. Thank God we don't design bridges and airplanes the way we do accounting.

I look most like myself... when I'm wearing my black, nerdy engineering glasses.

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.

Engineering is a jeans and hoodie culture, and sales is more formal.

The same undisciplined government spending and social engineering that has undermined our economy over the past 30 years has also been tearing at the social fabric of this land.

The most important thing is to keep trying...

Engineering is the application of scientific principles toward practical ends. If the engineering isn't practical, it's bad engineering.

Good engineering is characterized by gradual, stepwise refinement of products that yields increased performance under given constraints and with given resources.

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

Style is engineering that gives you freedom.

After graduating in engineering I went to the University of Kansas to get an MA in economics as a vehicle for allowing me to decide if I wanted to continue in economics.

Failure is Central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation.

Only when I began studying chemical engineering at Oregon Agricultural College did I realize that I myself might discover something new about the nature of the world.

None of us knows anything, not even whether we know or do not know, nor do we know whether not knowing and knowing exist, nor in general whether there is anything or not.

Recession doesn't deserve the right to exist. There are just too many things to be done in science and engineering to be bogged down by temporary economic dislocations.

There's an old joke that you know you're in heaven if the cooks are Italian and the engineering is German. If it's the other way around you're in hell.

I do think it is very important that the religious communities do try to bring their teachings and their insights to bear on the stem cell debate and on the debate about genetic engineering.

Spread the truth-the laws of economics are like the laws of engineering. One set of laws works everywhere.

Engineering is too important to wait for science.

If you've found some way to educate yourself about engineering, stocks, or whatever it is, good employers will have some type of exam or interview and see a sample of your work.

I didn't do the engineering, and I didn't do the math, because I thought I understood what was going on and I thought I made a good rig. But I was wrong. I should have done it.

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.

George Washington was quite a farmer. He was a farmer, Civil Engineer and gentleman. He made enough at civil engineering to indulge in both the other luxuries.

Biotech and geo engineering have the same mindset, of engineering, of power, of control, of mastery of nature.

Writers acquire their technique by spotting, savoring, and reverse-engineering examples of good prose.

Engineering is the professional and systematic application of science to the efficient utilization of natural resources to produce wealth.

Law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

An engineer cannot participate in irrationality.

Knowing there is a structure, hidden or felt, to the random gives pleasure.

For the personality, bankruptcy or failure may be a disaster. For the soul, it may be grist for its strangely joyful mill, and a condition it has been secretly engineering for years.

Communication is like the basics of mechanical engineering, the more moving parts you have the more likely it is to break down!

If geek means you're willing to study things, and if you think science and engineering matter, I plead guilty. If your culture doesn't like geeks, you are in real trouble.