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Famous Engineering Quotes
Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems. Scott Adams
As engineers, we were going to be in a position to change the world not just study it. Henry Petroski
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. Antoine de Saint Exupery
The scientist discovers a new type of material or energy and the engineer discovers a new use for it. Gordon Lindsay Glegg
The problem in this business isn’t to keep people from stealing your ideas; it’s making them steal your ideas! Howard Aiken
This job is a great scientific adventure. But it’s also a great human adventure. Fabiola Gianotti
Math is my Passion. Engineering is my Profession. Wilfred James Dolor
Engineers are not mere technicians and should not approve or lend their name to any project that does not promise to be beneficent to man and the advancement of civilization. John Fowler
The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art. Leonardo da Vinci
But remember this, Japanese boy airplanes are not tools for war. They are not for making money. Airplanes are beautiful dreams. Engineers turn dreams into reality. Hayao Miyazakİ
The fewer moving parts, the better. Exactly. No truer words were ever spoken in the context of engineering. Christian Cantrell
Engineering is quite different from science. Scientists try to understand nature. Engineers try to make things that do not exist in nature. Engineers stress invention. Yuan Cheng Fung
When you want to know how things really work, study them when they’re coming apart. William Gibson
The fewer moving parts, the better. Exactly. No truer words were ever spoken in the context of engineering. Christian Cantrell
I’ve never seen a job being done by a five hundred person engineering team that couldn’t be done better by fifty people. C. Gordon Bell
Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems. Scott Adams
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. Douglas Adams
Strive for perfection in everything you do. Take the best that exists and make it better. When it does not exist, design it. Sir Henry Royce
Normal people believe that if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain’t broke, it doesn’t have enough features yet. Scott Adams
The way to succeed is to double your failure rate. Thomas J. Watson
Engineering is not only study of 45 subjects but it is moral studies of intellectual life. Prakhar Srivastav
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. James Dyson
First rule of engineering; beware prototypes. Along with, avoid anything made by an engineer who doesn’t have all his own fingers. Simon R. Green
A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering. Freeman Dyson
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. Steven Johnson
I don’t spend my time pontificating about high concept things; I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems. Elon Musk
John Kobak explained, The way you learn anything is that something fails, and you figure out how not to have it fail again. Robert S. Arrighi
Normal people believe that if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain’t broke, it doesn’t have enough features yet. Scott Adams
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. James Dyson
The ideal engineer is a composite. He is not a scientist, he is not a mathematician, he is not a sociologist or a writer, but he may use the knowledge and techniques of any or all of these disciplines in solving engineering problems. Nathan W. Dougherty
It is hardly surprising that the malodorous field of garbology has not attained the popularity of rocket science, oil exploration, or brain surgery. Hans Y. Tammemagi
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems. Lee Iacocca
Projects we have completed demonstrate what we know future projects decide what we will learn. Dr. Mohsin Tiwana
One has to watch out for engineers they begin with the sewing machine and end up with the atomic bomb. Marcel Pagnol
I don’t spend my time pontificating about high concept things; I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems. Elon Musk
Science can amuse and fascinate us all, but it is engineering that changes the world. Isaac Asimov
A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering. Freeman Dyson
The history of engineering is really the history of breakages, and of learning from those breakages. I was taught at college the engineer learns most on the scrapheap. C.A.
There’s nothing I believe in more strongly than getting young people interested in science and engineering, for a better tomorrow, for all humankind. Bill Nye
Engineering is not merely knowing and being knowledgeable, like a walking encyclopedia; engineering is not merely analysis; engineering is not merely the possession of the capacity to get elegant solutions to non existent engineering problems; engineering is practicing the art of the organizing forces of technological change. Engineers operate at the interface between science and society. Gordon Stanley Brown
But remember this, Japanese boy airplanes are not tools for war. They are not for making money. Airplanes are beautiful dreams. Engineers turn dreams into reality. Hayao Miyazaki
What we usually consider as impossible are simply engineering problems there’s no law of physics preventing them. Michio Kaku
What we usually consider as impossible are simply engineering problems there’s no law of physics preventing them. Michio Kaku
Engineering or technology is the making of things that did not previously exist, whereas science is the discovering of things that have long existed. David Billington
I was originally supposed to become an engineer but the thought of having to expend my creative energy on things that make practical everyday life even more refined, with a loathsome capital gain as the goal, was unbearable to me. Albert Einstein
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. Lyon Sprague DeCamp
The most important thing is to keep the most important thing the most important thing. Donald P. Coduto
Scientists study the world as it is, engineers create the world that never has been. Theodore von Karman
It is exciting to discover electrons and figure out the equations that govern their movement; it is boring to use those principles to design electric can openers. From here on out, it’s all can openers. Neal Stephenson
Architects and engineers are among the most fortunate of men since they build their own monuments with public consent, public approval and often public money. John Prebble
Aeroplanes are not designed by science, but by art in spite of some pretence and humbug to the contrary. I do not mean to suggest that engineering can do without science, on the contrary, it stands on scientific foundations, but there is a big gap between scientific research and the engineering product which has to be bridged by the art of the engineer. British Engineer
Engineering is the science of economy, of conserving energy, kinetic and potential, provided and stored up by nature for the use of man. It is the business of engineering to utilize this energy to the best advantage, so that there may be the least possible waste. William A. Smith
A great bridge is a great monument which should serve to make known the splendour and genius of a nation; one should not occupy oneself with efforts to perfect it architecturally, for taste is always susceptible to change, but to conserve always in its form and decoration the character of solidity which is proper. Jean Peronnet
The engineer has been, and is, a maker of history. James Kip Finch
Architects and engineers are among the most fortunate of men since they build their own monuments with public consent, public approval and often public money. John Prebble
Manufacturing, 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. Sir James Dyson
Engineering is the art of modelling materials we do not wholly understand, into shapes we cannot precisely analyse so as to withstand forces we cannot properly assess, in such a way that the public has no reason to suspect the extent of our ignorance. Dr. AR Dykes
The life work of the engineer consists in the systematic application of natural forces and the systematic development of natural resources in the service of man. Harry Walter Tyler
Engineering problems are under defined, there are many solutions, good, bad and indifferent. The art is to arrive at a good solution. This is a creative activity, involving imagination, intuition and deliberate choice. Ove Arup
Engineering refers to the practice of organizing the design and construction [and, I would add operation] of any artifice which transforms the physical world around us to meet some recognized need. G.F.C. Rogers
Engineering to define rudely but not inaptly, is the art of doing that well with one dollar, which any bungler can do with two after a fashion. Arthur Mellen Wellington
Engineering stimulates the mind. Kids get bored easily. They have got to get out and get their hands dirty: make things, dismantle things, fix things. When the schools can offer that, you’ll have an engineer for life. Bruce Dickinson
Engineers are not mere technicians and should not approve or lend their name to any project that does not promise to be beneficent to man and the advancement of civilization. John Fowler
A good engineer thinks in reverse and asks himself about the stylistic consequences of the components and systems he proposes. Helmut Jahn
Engineers are not superhuman. They make mistakes in their assumptions, in their calculations, in their conclusions. That they make mistakes is forgivable; that they catch them is imperative. Thus it is the essence of modern engineering not only to be able to check one’s own work but also to have one’s work checked and to be able to check the work of others. Henry Petroski
Engineering is the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man. Thomas Tredgold
Experience serves not only to confirm theory, but differs from it without disturbing it, it leads to new truths which theory only has not been able to reach. Dalembert
Engineering problems are under-defined, there are many solutions, good, bad, and indifferent. The art is to arrive at a good solution. This is a creative activity, involving imagination, intuition and deliberate choice. Ove Arup
From the laying out of a line of a tunnel to its final completion, the work may be either a series of experiments made at the expense of the proprietors of the project, or a series of judicious applications of the results of previous experience. H.S. Drinker
Science can amuse and fascinate us all, but it is engineering that changes the world. Isaac Asimov
Go for civil engineering, because civil engineering is the branch of engineering which teaches you the most about managing people. Managing people is a skill which is very, very useful and applies almost regardless of what you do. Sir John Harvey Jones
Engineering is the professional and systematic application of science to the efficient utilization of natural resources to produce wealth. Theodore Jesse Hoover
I have not failed, but found 1000 ways to not make a light bulb. Thomas Edison
