Quotes About Engineering

It's not about today or tomorrow; it's about building a company that can build the best race cars in the world.

My dad owns a company that lends equipment to industrial projects. I've been obsessed with taking it over since I could talk. I'd follow him and repeat conversations about how many tons of cranes were arriving. He said it was a man's world, so I studied electrical engineering because it was related.

By the time you get to college, it's much too late because you haven't had the math or science that you would need and, therefore, you're not prepared to really study engineering.

We are more dependent on science and engineering than at any other time in history. However, there is plenty of evidence that far too many people are scientifically illiterate, often having been put off science at school.

I didn't write because in the corps I took mining engineering of all things and, you know, they, they graduate a mining engineer as a sort of an illiterate.

One of my primary objects is to form the tools so the tools themselves shall fashion the work and give to every part its just proportion.

Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.

Even smaller companies are putting resources behind their analytics teams in the same way they put resources behind engineering and product teams. There are some great tools out there that allow even tiny businesses to use data effectively.

Every single item that we come into contact with on a daily basis has been designed by an artist. From the toothbrush we use in the morning, to the defibrillator that could save our lives, an artist is behind the design.

If you want to make a serious, rugged, reliable robot, you can start with the Create platform and just build stuff on top of it.

The form a city assumes as it evolves over time owes more to large-scale works of civil engineering - what we now call infrastructure - than almost any other factor save topography.

I have never engineered a record. I will draw a record and I'll show you what it's gonna look like. And I will design it and sketch it out and show you, you know, the breaks are coming in here. Sixteen bars. Move out. 32 bars and you get this baseline. Repeat this. Ghost it. Take the tops out of that. Make it go thin. Get a filter. Reverse it.

Engineers don't have that sixth sense where we can just toss in things here and there like many chefs.

'LaFerrari' means 'the Ferrari.' The excellence. In this car, we put everything we are able to do. Our extreme technology, extreme experience, extreme capability. And this has been the first Ferrari totally designed in our design center.

York City attorney—in 1887 to learn more about his alternating current theories and designs. Tesla passionately described how the entire system would work,

Mr. Westinghouse, you have been my friend, you believed in me when others had no faith; you were brave enough to go ahead when others lacked courage; you supported me when even your own engineers lacked vision. ... Here is your contract, and here is my contract. I will tear them both to pieces, and you will no longer have any troubles from my royalties." In

diagrammed the motor in the sand while his friend watched, unsure of what to think. After all, such a machine was theoretically impossible. In fact, seven years earlier, his professor at a college in Austria ridiculed him for suggesting that direct current generators could

At my house I have a full-size time machine that I've built over a couple of years... I love looking at people's faces when they walk into my office. They're literally astounded.

I didn't know what architecture was except that I lived in a house. I don't even think that I knew the word for a long time. My dad funneled me into engineering because it was his background.

In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.

Any car which holds together for a whole race is too heavy.

I take computers practically apart and put them back together. I have a supercomputer I built over the years out of different computers.

Manufacturing is more than just putting parts together. It's coming up with ideas, testing principles and perfecting the engineering, as well as final assembly.

Rome was not simply the thuggish younger sibling of classical Greece, committed to engineering, military efficiency and absolutism, whereas the Greeks preferred intellectual inquiry, theatre and democracy.