Quotes About Engineering

I'm not into politics but I am committed to a cause: ensuring design technology and engineering stays on the U.K. curriculum, alongside science and maths - grounding abstract theory, merging the practical with the academic.

Information theory began as a bridge from mathematics to electrical engineering and from there to computing.

It's hard to do that with people who think emotionally. A lot of people think in terms of people, emotions, and feelings. That's more complicated. Engineering mentality makes it, in theory, a little easier.

Colleges produce more sports therapists than engineers. Perhaps because America is a sporty country: a lot of outdoors.

We were then satisfied that, with proper lubrication and better adjustments, a little more power could be expected. The completion of the motor according to drawing was, therefore, proceeded with at once.

When I was studying at Purdue, we learned our thermodynamics from an antique steam engine. When I went back in 1964, I found the laboratories packed with the most modern equipment for the study of thermodynamics, some of which had been built by the students themselves.

A good engineer thinks in reverse and asks himself about the stylistic consequences of the components and systems he proposes.

The design of each element should be thought out in order to be easy to make and easy to repair.

A racing car is an animal with a thousand adjustments.

Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Engineering is the practice of safe and economic application of the scientific laws governing the forces and materials of nature by means of organization, design and construction, for the general benefit of mankind.

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El Sur producía hombres de Estado y soldados, plantadores y doctores, abogados y poetas, pero no ingenieros ni mecánicos. Estas profesiones vulgares eran buenas para los yanquis.

[Our lab uses] a desktop inkjet printer, but instead of using ink, we're using cells.

It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering.

Technology is a vocabulary and a language in which you can say many things.

Too few people recognize that the high technology so celebrated today is essentially a mathematical technology.

Electronic calculators can solve problems which the man who made them cannot solve; but no government-subsidized commission of engineers and physicists could create a worm.

Moore's Law - The number of transistors and resistors on a chip doubles every 24 months

I'm fascinated with materials, with processes, with technologies.

We are involved in technology development for, you know, missions that we hope to plan that would take us to an asteroid and eventually to Mars.

In 1978, I entered Tohoku University, into the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Technology.

Most people who sneer at technology would starve to death if the engineering infrastructure were removed.

My dad was an engineer and so I had this picture of science and technology and pursuits of the mind as being more impressive than artistic pursuits, which I saw a as kind of frivolous.