Engineering Quotes

For every scientific (or engineering) action, there is an equal and opposite social reaction.

Anything which is physically possible can always be made financially possible; money is a bugaboo of small minds.

Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty.

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.

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

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

Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.

Software engineering economics.

Software Engineering is that part of Computer Science which is too difficult for the Computer Scientist.

Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process.

I think a craft becomes an art form when the space of possible solutions becomes so huge that engineering can't carry you through.

Anyone with an engineering frame of mind will look at [accounting standards] and want to throw up.

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.

But I decided I wanted more education and I had to make a choice between starting law school, which was interesting to me, and going for a graduate degree in engineering.

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

I have long aspired to make our company a noble prototype of industry, penetrating in science, reliable in engineering, creative in aesthetics and wholesomely prosperous in economics.

I don't spend my time pontificating about high-concept things; I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems.

I went to engineering school, I went to physics class. I said, 'Screw this, I don't want to be here. I'd much rather be at a club playing music.

I studied chemical engineering. I was a good student, but these were the hard times of the depression, my scholarship came to an end, and it was necessary to work to supplement the family income.

Enlightened social engineering is required to face situations that demand global action now.

In 1978, I entered Tohoku University, into the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Technology.

Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.

We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.

Most people who sneer at technology would starve to death if the engineering infrastructure were removed.

I didn't write because in the corps I took mining engineering of all things and, you know, they, they graduate a mining engineer as a sort of an illiterate.

I worked with such concentration and focus and I had hundreds of obscure engineering or programming things in my head. I was just real exceptional in that way

Science, math and engineering can give you the exhilarating power to become not mere spectators or consumers, but the active explorers, makers and doers who will help invent the future.

Teachers need to be more inspirational. But it's also up to engineering to make itself more interesting.

Engineering is not only study of 45 subjects but it is moral studies of intellectual life. Make things as simple as possible..but not simpler.

The physicist's greatest tool is his wastebasket.

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

I think we can question whether degrees are antediluvian. Online learning has flexibility. Why not master courses in energy, writing, communications, and engineering and get a credential?

Hippocrates is an excellent geometer but a complete fool in everyday affairs.

Great triumphs of engineering genius-the locomotive, the truss bridge, the steel rail- ... are rather invention than engineering proper.

I kind of think of engineering like the chefs at a restaurant. Nobody's going to deny chefs are integrally important, but there's also so many other people who contribute to a great meal.

An important re-engineering principle is that companies should focus on their core competence and outsource everything else.

Software will get to be somewhat more mature, ah, but it will never be as predictable as most areas of engineering.

Most of our competitors were one-product wonders... They would do their one product, but never get their engineering sorted out.

I am so old, I entered engineering school with a slide rule. And I left engineering school with a calculator. I can still use a slide rule but it's not a skill you especially need anymore.

This is not the internet the world needs, or the internet its creators envisioned. We need to take it back. And by we, I mean the engineering community.

This cement can be used in any situation and for any purpose to which any other mortar or hydraulic cement can be applied. It does not become perfectly hard within one or two months.

When you're young, you're not afraid of what comes next. You're excited by it.

Any impatient student of mathematics or science or engineering who is irked by having algebraic symbolism thrust upon him should try to get along without it for a week.

Aviation is the branch of engineering that is least forgiving of mistakes.

...governments, including free and democratic governments, are not really friendly to freedom and democracy. They abhor any rule of law that limits their powers and penchant for social engineering.

I've never seen a job being done by a five-hundred-person engineering team that couldn't be done better by fifty people.

Any colour - so long as it's black.

In engineering, that only is great which achieves. It matters not what the intention is, he who in the day of battle is not victorious is not saved by his intention.