Engineering Quotes

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.

~ Ross Perot

Every orchid or rose or lizard or snake is the work of a dedicated and skilled breeder. There are thousands of people, amateurs and professionals, who devote their lives to this business. Now imagine what will happen when the tools of genetic engineering become accessible to these people.

~ Freeman Dyson

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

~ Bruce Dickinson

Failure is central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation. Successful engineering is all about understanding how things break or fail.

~ Henry Petroski

Engineering is achieving function while avoiding failure.

~ Henry Petroski

I emphasize that virtually every engineering calculation is ultimately a failure calculation, because without a failure criterion against which to measure the calculated result, it is a meaningless number.

~ Henry Petroski

Relying on nothing but scientific knowledge to produce an engineering solution is to invite frustration at best and failure at worst.

~ Henry Petroski

Shiv Nadar University has five schools with 16 departments offering 14 undergraduate, 10 master's and 13 doctoral programmes. The demand for engineering courses - computer science, engineering, electronics, communication engineering, mechanical engineering - is slightly on the higher side compared to other engineering courses.

~ Shiv Nadar

Introduced in the 1960s, multitasking is an engineering strategy for making computers more efficient. Human beings are the slowest elements in a system.

~ Ellen Ullman

A wide variety of devices beyond personal computers are arriving, many of which will be used to browse the Web... The Flash engineering team has taken this on with a major overhaul of the mainstream Flash Player for a variety of devices.

~ Kevin Lynch

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

~ Daniel J. Evans

I think I finally chose the graduate degree in engineering primarily because it only took one year and law school took three years, and I felt the pressure of being a little behind - although I was just 22.

~ Daniel J. Evans

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

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

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

~ Jaron Lanier

Genetic engineering is a result of science advancement, so I don't think that in itself is bad. If used wisely, genetics can be beneficial, but they can be abused, too.

~ Hideo Kojima

At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession.

~ Queen Elizabeth Ii

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

~ Jamie Zawinski

I've actually started a number of businesses in my career. So I'm 28 currently, but when I was about 16, I started building Websites, and that's how I put myself through school. I went to Duke with a degree in electrical engineering, computer science, computer engineering, and then to Princeton.

~ Aaron Patzer

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

~ Ben Shneiderman

All the traditional STEM fields, the science, technology, engineering, and math fields, are stoked when you dream big in an agency such as NASA.

~ Neil Degrasse Tyson

I think people are realizing that engineering and science are extremely good degrees to get and you'll be very highly paid once you've got them.

~ James Dyson

Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences - large scale engineering, neuroscience.

~ Paolo Bacigalupi

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

~ James Dyson

Architecture begins where engineering ends.

~ Walter Gropius

I never studied sculpture, engineering or architecture. In fact, after college I applied to seven art schools and was rejected by all seven.

~ Janet Echelman

I didn't know what architecture was except that I lived in a house. I don't even think that I knew the word for a long time. My dad funneled me into engineering because it was his background.

~ Antoine Predock

The deep learning techniques, while relatively easy to learn, are quite foreign to traditional engineering modalities. It takes a different mindset and a relaxation of the presumption of control. The practitioners are like magi, sequestered from the rest of a typical engineering process.

~ Steve Jurvetson

All the food we eat, whether Brussels sprouts or pork bellies, has been modified by mankind. Genetic engineering is only one particularly powerful way to do what we have been doing for eleven thousand years.

~ Michael Specter

Elon Musk wins you over with his elegant mastery of engineering, be it for the rocket or the car. But what blew my socks off was when our conversation veered way off topic. We started musing about whether it was possible we all lived in the matrix, and Musk still had deep knowledge.

~ Steve Jurvetson

You may be in a medical or engineering college, but not all will stand first in class. It depends on who studies the most.

~ Anupam Kher

Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.

~ Bill Gates

The path to the CEO's office should not be through the CFO's office, and it should not be through the marketing department. It needs to be through engineering and design.

~ Elon Musk

I am going to design... a Station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc.

~ Isambard K. Brunel

I do quite like Gehry's Guggenheim. But where in Bilbao it's seen as an outgrowth of years of investment in urban design and engineering, in Britain it's seen as the catalyst for urban regeneration rather than the icing on the cake.

~ David Chipperfield

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.

~ Freeman Dyson

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

~ Drew Endy

Economic engineering is about the design and analysis of frameworks for achieving specific economic objectives.

~ Ben Bernanke

The theory of mechanism design can be thought of as the 'engineering' side of economic theory.

~ Eric Maskin

My dad wanted me to be a professional person, which I was - I was a civil engineer. I graduated from civil engineering at USC in California. I became an engineer, and I helped design the roads for the L.A. County Roads Department. And I did that for about one and a half years in a sense to please my parents - to be a 'respectable' person.

~ James Hong

I was one of the first practitioners of social engineering as a hacking technique, and today it is my only tool of use, aside from a smartphone - in a purely white hat sort of way. But if you don't trust me, then ask any reasonably competent social engineer.

~ John Mcafee