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Quotes About Engineering

When Welwyn Garden City was planned, the workers homes were placed in the east, downwind from the factories in the middle, whilst the bosses got the larger westside homes in Handside. This sort of social engineering, including the absence of a pub, would not be acceptable today.
~ Grant Shapps
Weapons of mass destruction aren't pulled out of a black hat like a white rabbit at a magic show. They're produced in factories. There's science and technology involved. They're not produced in a hole in the ground or in a basement.
~ Scott Ritter
The biggest lesson I've learned is that hurt people hurt people, and kindness is just as contagious. So if you can focus your efforts on engineering kindness, it will prevail.
~ Whitney Wolfe Herd
I don't design down to a price.
~ James Dyson
Our business model is primarily that of consulting, engineering, system integration, and managed services.
~ Azim Premji
With a 3D printer, you could build your own car, one part at a time. When you were finished, you'd have an automobile that is extremely lightweight because it is made of plastic, which is good because you'd need to carry it because it is made of plastic.
~ W. Bruce Cameron
Problem-solving is essential to engineering. Engineers are constantly on the lookout for a better way to do things.
~ Dinesh Paliwal
I know firsthand that the characteristics of a great engineer - problem-solving skills, a deep understanding of technology, and a results-driven mindset - are the exact same things that any executive, in any industry, must have in order to succeed.
~ Dinesh Paliwal
I became an environmentalist because I love the living world, but I spend much of my life thinking about electricity, industrial processes and civil engineering.
~ George Monbiot
The entire brain of the organization is here. The construction drawings and data processing all takes place in Rotterdam.
~ Boyan Slat
I had no intention of being a film producer, and I knew I wasn't passionate about engineering. I was always set on having my own business, controlling my own destiny.
~ Will Packer
All I ever really work for is to be a really good engineer, a good producer, a good executive, good in the world of Beats. That's power to me.
~ Jimmy Iovine
Engineering producers who don't play and have technology as a background may be the reason why there's a lot of cold non-musical music, for lack of a better description.
~ Bill Laswell
The West is not producing enough engineers.
~ Azim Premji
Indians have very good engineering capabilities, and that is why, if an industry focuses on innovation, you will have a far greater chance of success, rather than the model which is based on just being a production machine.
~ Baba Kalyani
My very first records, I was very interested in how you get the particular quality you want out of it, and I began to learn about the engineering and aspects of production and things very early on. I got hands-on with the process and taught myself how to engineer, as opposed to just being a producer who asked the engineer to make it sound nice.
~ Todd Rundgren
My profession is called record production.
~ Tony Visconti
Although engineers want always to make everything better, they cannot make anything perfect. This basic characteristic flaw of the products of the profession's practitioners is what drives change and makes achievement a process rather than simply a goal.
~ Henry Petroski
All my dishes are engineered.
~ Alvin Leung
During my engineering days, I learnt to value diversity, not to take shortcuts in life.
~ Rajeev Suri
It is vitally important for me to concentrate on myself, on the work that I have to do on the track and off it with the engineers, without really thinking about what people are expecting from me on the outside.
~ Charles Leclerc
We've gotten quite creative with our use of explosives... It's almost like an art form, rather than just blowing crap up.
~ Jamie Hyneman
My dad is an electrical engineer. So he was always very focused on, you know, teaching his daughters about, you know, science, math, technology. None of us actually became engineers for our careers, but I always had that exposure when I was young, and I just loved playing computer games.
~ Kristen Soltis Anderson
The factory is the machine that builds the machine.
~ Elon Musk