Quotes About Engineering

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.

Battle platforms were a recent addition to Cruz's arsenal. They were the size of cities, floating on the ocean

There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy.

For an organization consisting mainly of engineers, whiteboards served as the corporate equivalent of the water cooler.

Nikolaus Otto built and sold the first internal-combustion gasoline engine in 1861, and Rudolf Diesel built his engine in 1897

Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty.

Beginning in the 1980s, government, including presidents, Congress, and the Federal Reserve, gave us three decades of reduced regulation of the financial industry. Leverage, easy money, and "financial engineering" then brought a series of asset bubbles and threats to the stability of the financial system itself.

If you tasked a cultural engineering team with designing a substance that would satisfy specs aimed at maximizing individual creativity and group cooperation, they would come up with something very much like alcohol.

Engineering -nature is engineering, so is culture, science is right behind, only chaos is not an engineer- and, along with it, the furious need to reproduce.

The companies don't normally induct talented engineers especially from premier institutions in their sales & marketing functions unless and until it is the only option left for their survival.

I am a qualified civil engineer but academics never attracted me as I was a sleepoholic when I was in college.

We have over 100,000 bridges in this country old enough to qualify for Medicare.

Joseph Bazalgette created a sewer system which he originally sized for London's needs of the time - he then doubled it to anticipate the future beyond. These are the qualities that I admire.

We Germans should know that we're good at constructing cars, and we have a lot of good qualities. But we're not the funniest.

Right now people are interested in genetic engineering to help the human race. That's a noble cause, and that's where we should be heading. But once we get past that - once we understand what genetic diseases we can deal with - when we start thinking about the future, there's an opportunity to create some new life-forms.

Driving race cars was an avenue for me to learn how to build my own car, and that was my ambition all along.

I come from a line of railroad men. My great-grandfather was a surveyor for the Burlington Railroad.

There's actually an awful lot of mathematics that goes into designing a railway, keeping it running, making sure everything runs optimally. Every time you need something to be optimal there's going to be some mathematics at play.

Google has helped raise the importance of DNS above the network engineering community, which has been really good.

The public should know that the liability issues here have yet to be resolved, or even raised. If you're a farmer and you're growing a genetically engineering food crop, those genes are going to flow to the other farm.

Protein engineering is a technology of molecular machines - of molecular machines that are part of replicators - and so it comes from an area that already raises some of the issues that nanotechnology will raise.

Only engineers would do something like random mutagenesis.

Many people think all I do is some random engineering work in between caving expeditions. It's been far more deliberate than that.

I've got a Range Rover. It's brilliant actually but it's manual.