Quotes About Engineering

There's a fundamental problem with how the software business does things. We're asking people who are masters of hard-edged technology to design the soft, human side of software as well. As a result, they make products that are really cool - if you happen to be a software engineer.

The days when a car aficionado could repair his or her own car are long past, due primarily to the high software content.

By being able to write a genome and plug it into an organism, the software, if you will, changes the hardware.

Yes, we are a producer of cameras, but we understand that at the end of the day, you have to make photos in software. A lot of companies focus on the camera side, and a lot are on the software side. There's a chasm between the two.

In our firm's earliest days, our understanding of the power of great software engineering and quantitative analytics helped Citadel stand out.

We taught ourselves to simulate how microprocessors work using DEC computers so we could develop software even before our machine was built.

As someone who was basically a software engineer for many years, I became fascinated with how the brain functions and is put together and works in such a different fashion than computers do.

Rather than engineering our economies solely to maximise GDP, Africa's business and political leaders must build economies explicitly designed to end poverty and inequality.

I'm an architect. Before you start pouring the concrete, you build a foundation that is solid so that when you take the scaffolding down, it holds - forever. So that when junior high schools are doing 'Hunchback,' a 12-year-old as Frollo still works on some level.

Large solid rockets have never been a very good way to build launchers that might have crews on top, especially because of the problems in getting the crew away from a failing launcher.

I want to build a machine that can drill wells for water. With this problem of water in many places in Africa, we need to find a solution for how you can dig wells so you can be pumping water from deeper places.

As an engineer, you learn there is a solution to every problem. It may take you a while, but eventually you're going to find it.

I see a problem and I invent some sort of solution to it.

In my opinion, as an engineer, a bridge is the most difficult thing you can do. You are not working in the direction of gravity but against it - so the problem opposes the solution.

I think a craft becomes an art form when the space of possible solutions becomes so huge that engineering can't carry you through.

Here is what the world looked like in 2000... there were no plug and play solutions for ecommerce/warehouse management and customer service that could scale... which means that we had to employ 40+ engineers. Cloud computing did not exist, which means that we had to have a server farm and several IT people to insure that the site did not go down.

Chinese engineers have spent years finding solutions to the problems of building a railway line on permafrost ground at altitudes above 4,000 metre.

I wanted to rewrite the code of life, to make new molecular machines that would solve human problems.

As an engineer I'm constantly spotting problems and plotting how to solve them.

Engineers have a certain mindset of how they approach problem solving. That's basically what engineers are: problem solvers. You identify the problem. Then you design a process to solve the problem. Then you execute the process and repeat it over and over until you get it right.

On 'MythBusters,' a lot of what we do does not fall into any category of things we have ever done before. There's a lot of problem solving to figure out how to even approach a given problem. A background in science or engineering helps a lot.

I love architecture.

I love working on cars.

In robotics, accuracy is not as important as precision, because a sensor measurement does not directly return a physical quantity.