Engineering Quotes

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

What's nice about having an engineering degree is everybody thinks you are smart.

Copying is about reverse-engineering.

Death is an engineering problem.

I was attracted to things that combined art and science equally. I've always been equally interested in art design, science and engineering.

At MakerBot, we joke that if we were engineers we would still be on our first prototype. There's something about just 'Doing it”iteration is a way of engineering.

[An engineer's] invention causes things to come into existence from ideas, makes world conform to thought; whereas science, by deriving ideas from observation, makes thought conform to existence.

I studied engineering in the national university, the Universidad Autonoma, in San Ildefonso.

One of the great inventions of the twentieth century was the studied, methodical engineering of myth for political ends.

I reckon that the Bailey Bridge and the bulldozer were the greatest advances in military engineering in the years between World War I and World War II.

Engineering is a creative practice.

Google has helped raise the importance of DNS above the network engineering community, which has been really good.

I've always disliked words like inspiration. Writing is probably like a scientist thinking about some scientific problem, or an engineer about an engineering problem.

The most troublesome problem which confronts social engineering is how to provide for the untalented and, what is equally important, how to provide against them.

A system needs to be alive and workable even when other people than the first enthusiasts start using it. Reinvention and revolution are enthusiast stuff. Invention and evolution are engineering.

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.

I've always said I don't want to have kids. I don't want a kid at all, but I do like reverse-engineering myself; managing and parenting myself.

In life sciences, we find a reasonable balance between men and women. In engineering and computer science, we have a major problem. A very small percentage of women will be in computer science.

Most people don't realize that it's not just minorities who don't do well in science and engineering - quite frankly, you're talking about Americans.

To strive consciously for an object and to engage in engineering -- that is, incessantly and eternally to make new roads, wherever they may lead.

The switch from 'steam engines' to 'heat engines' signals the transition from engineering practice to theoretical science.

Engineering is treated with disdain, on the whole. It's considered to be rather boring and irrelevant, yet neither of those is true.

No one expected a first year engineering student to build the perfect bridge.

The 19th century was the great period of engineering, thanks to the railways, thanks to lots of discoveries in metallurgy.

The hallmark of the Renaissance was its holistic quality as all fields of art, engineering, science and culture shared the same exciting spirit and many of the same intellectual principles.

I strive to create drum samples that have a variety of engineering and capturing options in order to build a unique drum sound.

I would staple a green card to the diploma of anyone that graduates with a degree in the physical sciences or engineering in the U.S.

I am looking at opening a school of social engineering. The McAfee School of Social Engineering has a nice ring to it. Beyond that, it is hard to say what life will bring my way.

You have the insanity that is geo-engineering which is a case in which you say the planet is heating up. Let's spray some aerosol and cool it down.

Let's not be optimistic in the irreversibly irresponsible way that tends to happen with the crazies of geo-engineering. But let's talk about what sorts of changes we can make.

In the first 27 years of my life, I never had written a single non-technical word. I went to engineering college and went to business school. I never knew I could write fiction of any form.

Meditation is the best engineering.

So far we have done too much of 'spatial engineering'. The real thing is 'non-spatial engineering'.

British innovation in design, in the creative arts, in engineering and manufacturing is world class.

Hey, if I had my choice for social engineering, I'd declare an automatic R-rating for any movie that depicts television commercials. There's a truly dangerous influence on our children.

PayPal once rejected a candidate who aced all the engineering tests because for fun, the guy said that he liked to play hoops. That single sentence lost him the job.

I was always intrigued when I was growing up, and then in engineering school, with the idea of a perpetual machine. I think of the Wal-Mart culture as that.

I was taking chemical engineering. But I went into the army after that. When I came out of the army, I was a different person. I met a lot of good jazz players in the army.

I've had training in electronics engineering, of all things, and in languages. But I've never taken any degree, something I share with Lewis Mumford, I think.

A professor is one who can speak on any subject - for precisely fifty minutes.

Business ethics has always had problems that are distinct from those of other professions, such as medicine, law, engineering, dentistry, or nursing.

Someone will always want to mobilize Death on a massive scale for economic Domination or revenge. And the task, taken As a task, appeals to the imagination. The military is an engineering profession.

The greatest engineering is the engineering of men.

... man cannot help but transcend himself as soon as he begins to design and construct.

The engineer's power was usually limited to a refusal to endorse a given plan, or to the tender of his resignation.

Engineering, I think you can pick up. [A data scientist's] curiosity is built-in

Climate protection creates sustainability and jobs in the real economy - in construction, in the production of heavy machinery and in systems engineering.

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

Aggression, like every other part of human behavior we take for granted, is a challenging engineering problem!

The biggest engineering companies, like Schlumberger, Halliburton and others, have technology they spent billions of dollars developing.