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Quotes About Engineering

Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.
~ Elon Musk
There's no such thing as technology in the singular, only technologies in the plural.
~ John Michael Greer
All the traditional STEM fields, the science, technology, engineering, and math fields, are stoked when you dream big in an agency such as NASA.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
For the future, primarily, we must educate people in science, engineering, technology and math.
~ Buzz Aldrin
Israel has the best engineers in the world... I view Israel as a tremendous source of technologies
~ Douglas H. Bosco
I'm a technical manager, but I don't have to take care of people. I only have to worry about technology itself.
~ Linus Torvalds
[Nikola] Tesla is great! Tesla I actually deal with - I have this thing called the Cop Stopper that deals with Tesla's technology. It's like a Pokémon ball and you push the button.
~ Kellan Lutz
Medical Device technology is truly interdisciplinary.
~ Chris Toumazou
At that time [1909] the chief engineer was almost always the chief test pilot as well. That had the fortunate result of eliminating poor engineering early in aviation.
~ Igor Sikorsky
I suppose the reason I chose electrical engineering was because I had always been interested in electricity, involving myself in such projects as building radios from the time I was a child.
~ Koichi Tanaka
It is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature.
~ Nikola Tesla
With the advent of genetic engineering the time required for the evolution of new species may literally collapse.
~ Dee Hock
After the Challenger accident, NASA put in a lot of time to improve the safety of the space shuttle to fix the things that had gone wrong.
~ Sally Ride
When the ancient Egyptians finished building the pyramids, they had built the pyramids.
~ Anne Lamott
The hard work and big money you used to spend on frequent purchases of print and TV advertising now move to repeated engineering expenses and product failures. If anything, marketing is more time-consuming and expensive than it used to be. You're just spending the money earlier in the process (and repeating the process more often). This is worth highlighting: The Purple Cow is not a cheap shortcut. It is, however, your best (perhaps only) strategy for growth.
~ Seth Godin
In case you haven't noticed, there's not a plethora of engineers here. (Devyn) Plethora? What kind of girl word is that? (Sway)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
All attempts at artificial aviation are not only dangerous to human life, but foredoomed to failure from the engineering standpoint.
~ Simon Newcomb
The linear-programming was - and is - perhaps the single most important real-life problem.
~ Keith Devlin
You had to make a camera look like it's traveling at 300 mph, but you couldn't make it actually travel at 300 mph so you had to slow everything down and build devices to do that. So you were constantly engineering.
~ John Dykstra
My own impression is that we may be witnessing something far more complex, namely an awkward joining of two species, engineered by an intelligence we are unable to fathom, for a purpose that serves both of our goals with difficulties for each. I base this view on the evidence presented by the abductees themselves.
~ John E. Mack
The problem with castles, Halt thought as he continued upward, was that they were full of stairs. If someone could only design a castle that was all on one level, it would save a lot of effort.
~ John Flanagan
Since the early days, some of the originators of NLP have developed new models including Design Human Engineering, the New NLP, and NLP New Code.
~ John Grinder
Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
It couldn't sound like a dog, because K9 isn't a dog, but I made it sound as mechanical as possible.
~ John Leeson