Quotes About Engineering

I went to school for audio engineering, and I was around a lot of sound engineers over the summers in New York, so I'm pretty comfortable in engineering my own stuff.

The market needs a super car with no excuses.

If you want to have a Super Bowl, put a retractable dome on your stadium, then you can get one.

My personal experience with companies in the PayPal ecosystem taught me that a superb engineering culture is indispensable to building a winning business.

Sometimes people wonder why aeroplanes are so cheap and rockets are so expensive. Even the most superficial comparison shows one obvious difference: aeroplane engines use outside air to burn their fuel, while rockets have to carry their own oxidisers along.

Naturalism by its purpose engineers the displacement of the miracle and puts in its place explanations that defy reason. Those who smirk at His walking on water have forgotten the miracle He has already performed in the very composition of water. Think

premature optimization is the root of all evil. —Donald E. Knuth [

You make careful plans, and 'chance' seems to favor you. Things go your way that look to a neutral observer like luck. But it's luck you've engineered.

The Titanic woke them up. Never again would they be quite so sure of themselves. In technology especially, the disaster was a terrible blow. Here was the "unsinkable ship" -- perhaps man's greatest engineering achievement -- going down the first time it sailed. But it went beyond that. If this supreme achievement was so terribly fragile, what about everything else? If wealth mean so little on this cold April night, did it mean so much the rest of the year?

I can build a hyperphase jump gate, I'm sure I could have figured sex out. Insert Tab M into Slot F. Repeat until done.

Without an engine, Beebe's bathysphere dangled helplessly from the topside support ship like a ball of yarn suspended from knitting needles.

Dams are built with the intent of a 100-year lifetime — just long enough for societies to become completely dependent on them

The world's record for the largest yo-yo is jointly held by J. N. Nichols (Vimto) Ltd. and the engineering students of Stockport College, Stockport, England. This yo-yo was 10 feet 4 inches in diameter and weighed 897 pounds. It entered the world of Yo on August 1, 1993 when it was "thrown" from a 187-foot crane in Wythenshawe, England.

Behind every screen on your phone, there are literally a thousand engineers that have worked on this thing to try to make it maximally addicting

According to Aza Raskin, the smartphone's infinite scroll feature (which allows us to swipe down continuously without clicking) was deliberately built to be habit-forming. He should know. He's the engineer who created it.

One of the great paradoxes of social engineering is that it seems at odds with the experience of modernity generally. Trying to jell a social world, the most striking characteristic of which appears to be flux, seems rather like trying to manage a whirlwind.

Yet it should not be forgotten that construction of churches and cathedrals helped create and deepen markets for many artisanal and engineering skills. In the same way that military spending of the nation-state during the Cold War unintentionally helped incubate the Internet, so the building of medieval cathedrals led to spin-offs of other kinds, the incubation of commerce. The Church was a principal customer of the building trades and artisans.

biotech creatures we have manufactured to help us create and fully manage the planned Variables.

Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.

Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it.

I don't design down to a price.

I think people are realizing that engineering and science are extremely good degrees to get and you'll be very highly paid once you've got them.

Engineering undergraduates should not be charged fees. They should receive grants, not student loans, and the government will get the money back long-term from increased exports.

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.