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Quotes About Engineer

The human body was designed by a civil engineer. Who else would run a toxic waste pipeline through a recreational area ?
~ Robin Williams
A lawyer is either a social engineer or he is a parasite on society.
~ Charles Hamilton Houston
How'd you do that?" Riker gasped as he followed Scott out into the dim corridor. "Oh, you'd have to take my course in alternative signals at the academy. New term starts in September." "Scotty, you're a miracle worker." "No, lad, I'm an engineer.
~ Diane Carey
I need to develop a car and engineer a car in a position that feels comfortable for me, and I don't think anyone can do a better job than I can in that position. The problem for me is if I can't get the car there I do struggle more than some.
~ Jenson Button
Mrs. Arthur Luck of Worcester, Massachusetts, traveling with her two sons, Kenneth Luck and Elbridge Luck, ages eight and nine, to rejoin her husband, a mining engineer who awaited them in England. Why in the midst of great events there always seems to be a family so misnamed is one of the imponderables of history.
~ Erik Larson
When I get my music mixed, I'm actually in the studio with the engineer, every project I've ever put out. So it's supposed to always say mixed by whatever engineer I use and Dolph.
~ Young Dolph
In August 1994, I was invited to have dinner with House Minority Whip Newt Gingrich. At that time, I was a senior engineer working for Martin Marietta Astronautics in Denver, where I had been responsible for inventing a new plan called 'Mars Direct.'
~ Robert Zubrin
I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer.
~ Neil Armstrong
I knew I wanted to be an engineer, but I didn't know what type of engineer. I chose electrical engineering primarily because it was the hardest one to get into. It's ridiculous when I think about it now, but it worked out OK.
~ Steve Mollenkopf
As an engineer, I tended to maintain my own equipment along with developing the processes for it.
~ Brian Krzanich
People have always said that I could have been a highly successful pop artist, if only that were my intention. It never was. My original intention was to be a kind of behind-the-scenes participant in music, to just be a record producer and engineer. And I made a record for myself just so I could have an outlet for my musical ideas.
~ Todd Rundgren
Every time we go into the studio and use a different engineer or producer I try to look, listen and learn their approach. That has helped with the gear I look for to use live and in the studio.
~ Jim Root
I've spent a career working in tech as a software engineer. And I believe regulated markets are the best way to build and deliver innovative products.
~ Brianna Wu
What we look for are people that are technically competent. You need a background in a scientific field, whether it's as a scientist, an engineer, medical doctor, or, you know, a person that's in the military with some kind of technical background.
~ Scott Kelly
I am an engineer, not just an architect, so I've always been motivated by technique or technology. As soon as technology moves just a little bit, it changes architecture.
~ Santiago Calatrava
So there was always work, but the one project by which Fontana is remembered, and which gave him a deserved immortality as an engineer, was moving and re-erecting the obelisk of Saint Peter's, that huge spike rising from what would become the heart of Christianity.
~ Robert Hughes
I am not a visionary. I'm an engineer. I'm happy with the people who are wandering around looking at the stars but I am looking at the ground and I want to fix the pothole before I fall in.
~ Linus Torvalds
As an environmental engineer who spent the early part of my career cleaning up groundwater contamination, I know firsthand the challenges of cleaning up contaminants and the risks posed to human health if we fail.
~ Chris Sununu
As an environmental engineer I spent many years cleaning up PCB contamination, and I know firsthand the costs these efforts can place on individuals and communities.
~ Chris Sununu
I wanted to further my education, so I went on to get a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and came back and served about ten years in the Canadian Navy as what we call a combat systems engineer.
~ Marc Garneau
I'm a mechanical engineer, and I grew up on a farm, so I like practical hardware - somebody's elegant solution that proves itself over the long term.
~ Chris Hadfield
My training as an engineer has enabled me to design the stuff, but the reason I do it is not to make music but for the opportunity to work with musicians.
~ Robert Moog
It's never one thing that leads to a tragic accident, she was sure she'd read once—though she couldn't say where. It's usually seven things—seven mistakes, or errors in judgment, or acts of negligence. If you reverse engineer any major disaster—oil spill or train derailment or airplane crash—there are usually seven things that had to go wrong in order for them to occur. Claudia
~ Lisa Unger
On the third, we got into troubles. Baz Jesek had gotten more and more involved with equipment and maintenance—he is a good engineer, I'll give him that—I was tactical commander, and Oser—I thought by default, but now I think design—took up the administrative slack. Could have been good, each doing what he did best, if Oser'd been working with and not against us. In the same situation, I'd have sent assassins. Oser employed guerilla accountants.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold