Quotes About Engineering

Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.

Our garage was basically science fair central.

Engineering is the professional and systematic application of science to the efficient utilization of natural resources to produce wealth.

I have long aspired to make our company a noble prototype of industry, penetrating in science, reliable in engineering, creative in aesthetics and wholesomely prosperous in economics.

Mechanics is the paradise of the mathematical sciences because by means of it one comes to the fruits of mathematics.

Engineers use knowledge primarily to design, produce, and operate artifacts. ... Scientists, by contrast, use knowledge primarily to generate more knowledge.

Engineering is merely the slow younger brother of physics.

When a body acts upon another one, it is always immediately or through some intermediate body; this intermediate body is in general what one calls a machine.

The central activity of engineering, as distinguished from science, is the design of new devices, processes and systems.

the science of control and communication in the animal and the machine

This extraordinary metal, the soul of every manufacture, and the mainspring perhaps of civilised society. Of iron.

Art and design are not luxuries, nor somehow incompatible with science and engineering.

Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts.

I like talking to engineers best. They built bridges, they're very precise, very disciplined, yet I find they have roving minds.

[An engineer's] invention causes things to come into existence from ideas, makes world conform to thought; whereas science, by deriving ideas from observation, makes thought conform to existence.

The hallmark of the Renaissance was its holistic quality as all fields of art, engineering, science and culture shared the same exciting spirit and many of the same intellectual principles.

Rockets are cool. There's no getting around that.

Faraday has the Cage, Tesla has the Coil and Magee has the Sandwich!

A pessimist says the glass is half empty, an optimist says the glass is half full, and an engineer says the glass is too big.

Engineering is not only study of 45 subjects but it is moral studies of intellectual life.

Harmonics are the cancer of the electrical system.

every successful hardware has a software behind

Great triumphs of engineering genius—the locomotive, the truss bridge, the steel rail— ... are rather invention than engineering proper.

My advice is to look out for engineers - they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb.