Quotes About Engineering

Paradigms are ways of programming, relatively unrelated to languages. A paradigm tells you which programming structures to use, and when to use them. To date, there have been three such paradigms. For reasons we shall discuss later, there are unlikely to be any others.

What do we talk about when we talk about architecture?

Coined the term "Aerial Robotics

teleological engineering.

Con quale velocità, pensò l'ingegnere, la natura si riprende ciò che ha dovuto cedere: pioggia e gelo sbriciolano la muratura, le strade sono sepolte da strati verdi di erbaccia, gli acquedotti sono ostruiti dalla stessa acqua per portare la quale sono stati costruiti. Quella della civiltà è un'incessante guerra che l'uomo è destinato a perdere.

One man's "magic" is another man's engineering. "Supernatural" is a null word.

The motorcycle is a system. A real system.

Any computer-electronics technician knows otherwise. Try to find a voltage representing one or zero when the power is off! The circuits are in a mu state.

Why hadn't they built a lot of little Ringworlds instead?

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.

How many software developers does it take to change a lightbulb? None, it's a hardware problem.

Being the most striking manifestation of the art of metal structures by which our engineers have shown in Europe, it [the Eiffel Tower] is one of the most striking of our modern national genius.

To the engineer falls the job of clothing the bare bones of science with life, comfort, and hope.

Science is the study of what Is, Engineering builds what Will Be. The scientist merely explores that which exists, while the engineer creates what has never existed before.

I have been spending the better part of my professional life trying to create self-driving cars. At Google, I am working with a world-class team of engineers to turn science fiction into reality.

Engineering without imagination sinks to a trade.

A designer must always think about the unfortunate production engineer who will have to manufacture what you have designed; try to understand his problems.

Engineering is a predictive science, not a manipulative art.

Computer Science is a science of abstraction -creating the right model for a problem and devising the appropriate mechanizable techniques to solve it.

Science can amuse and fascinate us all, but it is engineering that changes the world.

Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.

Progress is cumulative in science and engineering, but cyclical in finance.

In the hands of a genius, engineering turns to magic, philosophy becomes poetry, and science pure imagination.

[M]anufacturing, 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.