Quotes About Engineering

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

No. He had a few fruitcake sympathisers, of course—but there was nothing ecclesiastical about it. That came afterwards. The Santiago was largely secular, but they couldn't engineer religion out of the human psyche that easily. They took what Sky had done and fused his deeds with what they chose to remember from home; saving this and discarding that as they saw fit. It took a few generations until they had all the details worked out, but then there was no stopping them.

To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.

A Marxist historian would say that industries grew up and remained in an area because there was a plentiful supply of a certain necessary item. The existence of coal and steel in the Midlands led to the engineering industry being based there, a humid climate meant cotton was woven in Lancashire, and finance was located in the City of London because of a plentiful supply of hard-hearted and cruel individuals.

What is the point of one guy developing a 1.3 engine, and another guy a 1.4? What are you getting for this? And the answer is nothing: a total waste of capital.

Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering, and exploration.

I love watches, the mechanism.

A nuclear power reactor is just a fancy way of boiling water.

Much of the Netherlands lies considerably below sea level, as you well know. Through the process of building dikes to wall out the salty sea and through pumping the water into canals, the country of the ingenious, resourceful, and doughty Dutch has literally been born of the sea.

In its heyday, the car was an expression of technical flair and design genius: the original Mini, the Beetle, the 2CV, and the Fiat 500 were all, in their various ways, inspired incarnations of functionality.

We live in a world of diverse cultures, and we know very little about social engineering and how to 'build nations.' And when we cannot be sure how to improve the world, hubristic visions pose a grave danger.

At its core, HP has the best technologists on the planet Earth.

I did engineering, and when people asked me my career plans, I used to say I would do an MBA.

I was a Dow Chemical baby. My dad designed chemical plants for Dow Chemical.

We understand how to build and manage businesses that involve technology, engineering, and people at a large scale on a global platform.

We need to eliminate hate speech. We need to do our part to really engineer kindness on our digital platforms.

I think it's doing very well. I'm pleased to see the concentration on semiconductors. I think this will help.

We want our buildings to work like a machine that will create a pleasurable environment.

I am instinctively a network infrastructure plumber.

When 'Kaanta Laga' was offered to me, I was in college, doing my engineering course. I did the shooting of the song for some pocket money. I never imagined it to become such a huge hit.

There's a great deal of poetry in working out how things work, cutting bits of metal, trying to mend stuff.

I don't know marketing... clearly in engineering school you don't get much marketing training.

As technologists, we all write code.

The car is the most regulated thing in the world. It's more complicated to make a car than it is to send a rocket to space.