Quotes About Engineering

We forget the importance of engineering, but it's been used to design everything from St. Paul's Cathedral to The Shard.

I've had Ferraris; I've had Aston Martins. I've had all kinds of cars, but the thing I love about Lamborghini is that they're all-wheel drive, and when you step on the pedal, you stick to the road. You're not fishtailing all over the place.

Normal people... believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet.

When you try to do something ten per cent better, you tend to work from where you are: if I ask you to make a car that goes 50 miles a gallon, you can just retool the engine you already have.

Negative feedback effected amplifier performance significantly.

You can't do a machine without knowing something about how it's going to work. As for the romantics, the costumes bored me and I don't enjoy doing period clothes.

we have to create machines to allow us to continue creating machines becouse what machines are never going to do is to create machines

I am not optimistic or pessimistic. I feel that optimism and pessimism are very unbalanced. I am a very hard engineer. I am a mechanic. I am a sailor. I am an air pilot. I don't tell people I can get you across the ocean with my ship unless I know what I'm talking about.

Engineering is an activity other than purely manual and physical work which brings about the utilization of the materials and laws of nature for the good of humanity.

A wizard," Long echoed, thoughtfully. "Odd word to use in connection with computers. I've always found there to be so much Ã¢â'¬Â¦ flimflam about wizards, and I can't see how one could get away with that in computer engineering. But perhaps that's my own innocence.

Engineers are problem solvers, and crucial to strengthening the economy, making Vermont more affordable, and protecting our most vulnerable.

I was always intrigued when I was growing up, and then in engineering school, with the idea of a perpetual machine. I think of the Wal-Mart culture as that.

Engineering the biological world was even more interesting than engineering the mechanical world.

I'm a huge Tchad Blake fan.

We can't simply blame the engineers when things go wrong because, no matter how well they plan, things don't always go according to plan.

I've been building scratch cars my whole life - my passion is taking something that doesn't exist, creating a concept on a blank piece of paper and making that concept real.

One has to look out for engineers - they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb.

I was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and from an early age was interested in technology and engineering.

What I wanted to do was build an automobile.

We have never succeeded in slowing down our nuclear fusion reactors.

Social engineering has become about 75% of an average hacker's toolkit, and for the most successful hackers, it reaches 90% or more.

In the early days, it was enough for Imgur to have a team that was focused on building product and engineering. But I realized early on if we were going to be successful, we needed someone who would be a bridge between the company and community.

Every great device, gadget, electric car, and robot would be even greater if batteries didn't suck so badly.

I had been tracked from grades 1 through 12 in an accelerated program in the public school system in Memphis and had done well in math and science classes. When I was getting ready for college, my guidance counselors suggested I look into engineering.