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Quotes About Engineers

Technology/science," "pure/applied," "internal/external," and "technical/ social" are some of the dichotomies that were foreign to the integrating inventors, engineers, and managers of the system- and network-building era. To
~ Wiebe E. Bijker
Commitment devices are commonplace in business as well. Google has pledged to give its engineers 20% of their time to pursue personal projects. With that pledge, the company forecloses its ability to claim that time (at least without a lot of squawking). Small businesses get in on the act too.
~ Chip Heath
That's what people do in Holland. They build dykes and ditches. They don't drown. They're brilliant engineers.' 'So I've heard,' says Faro thoughtfully. 'They're very obstinate, those people in Holland.
~ Helen Dunmore
No one wants to learn by mistakes, but we cannot learn enough from successes to go beyond the state of the art. Contrary to their popular characterization as intellectual conservatives, engineers are really among the avant-garde.
~ Henry Petroski
I love that our engineers are first and foremost 'Instagram' users.
~ Mike Krieger
Indian software engineers are the best in the world; even in Silicon Valley, the best software engineers are Indians.
~ Masayoshi Son
I came to Silicon Valley in 1997 and joined WebEx. At that time, WebEx was small, only 10 engineers and two co-founders.
~ Eric Yuan
Qualified software engineers, managers, marketers and salespeople in Silicon Valley can rack up dozens of high-paying, high-upside job offers any time they want, while national unemployment and underemployment is sky high.
~ Marc Andreessen
I've actually found the image of Silicon Valley as a hotbed of money-grubbing tech people to be pretty false, but maybe that's because the people I hang out with are all really engineers.
~ Linus Torvalds
Diversifying our tech talent pool is an imperative for the tech sector. More diverse engineers and entrepreneurs will bring about a new type of innovation that Silicon Valley has yet to see.
~ Mitch Kapor
What makes Silicon Valley really work? It's a unique combination of great educational institutions - especially at Stanford - that generate engineers and a culture that starts companies.
~ John T. Chambers
For Israel to retain its amazing position as the largest concentration of high tech after Silicon Valley, we need more engineers and mathematicians. We have too many lawyers.
~ Naftali Bennett
The energy in Silicon Valley is because of the very talented engineers immigrating from around the world, especially Indians and Chinese. They are the best engineers, and Japan doesn't have enough of them.
~ Masayoshi Son
Such a system would be very, very expensive and laborious to have, given the kinds of border we have. Scientists and engineers aren't even sure they have the technology to make it work
~ Janet Napolitano
We will employ almost every strategy and hustle in any possible way to recruit top engineers to our team.
~ Charles Best
I lived in fear that other engineers would stop me in the street and ask me a math question, and I wouldn't know the answer.
~ Gurjeet Singh
Walking the streets of Porto and speaking with the top engineers at Veniam, I am struck by the passion that they bring to the world with their designs.
~ Grant Imahara
Color is a very critical thing. I've found that architects don't like colors. Engineers too. And so somebody has to stand in. Because this is the finish of it. It is the emotional part of a structure.
~ John Hench
No one wants their life thrown into chaos. That is why a lot of people keep that threat under control, and are somehow capable of sustaining a house or a structure that is already rotten. They are the engineers of the superseded
~ Paulo Coelho
A new report says ISIS is trying to recruit professionals like doctors, engineers, and accountants. Sorry, kids, even ISIS says they're not hiring liberal arts majors.
~ Conan O'Brien
All Scots are engineers, and all engineers are Scots.
~ David Brin
The plumber plodded along in silence, like a man who has learned to be polite to lunatics through dealing with civil engineers.
~ Lindsey Davis
Silicon Valley has evolved a critical mass of engineers and venture capitalists and all the support structure - the law firms, the real estate, all that - that are all actually geared toward being accepting of startups.
~ Elon Musk
Ultimately Halcyon needs the greatest scientists and engineers in the world to succeed in its mission.
~ Luke Nosek