Quotes About Engineering

Sensors are classified as proprioceptive or exteroceptive , and exteroceptive sensors are further classified as active or passive

I loved school, was an exceptional student, and found a passion for math and science that led me to Vanderbilt University, where I discovered the world of electrical engineering. I did well in college, loved the work I was doing, and soon found myself climbing the corporate ladder after graduation. I was one of the lucky ones.

I'm an electrical engineer, and when I first started out, there was nobody who looked like me out there. I worked at Qualcomm, and I remember coming into meeting rooms, and I could never get the floor. I could never get my opinion across.

People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk.

I'm not really interested in people. I just like messing around in cars.

I decided that since I was trying to teach 'style' of thinking in science and engineering, and 'style' is an art, I should therefore copy the methods of teaching used for the other arts - once the fundamentals have been learned.

I'm not an amazing engineer; I'm just super basic. I'm pretty cavalier about it - I stick the mic wherever it sounds good.

My dad worked all his life, an engineer, 30 years, week in, week out at the same machine. That is mind-boggling to me. I do not know how the hell he did it.

One of the most fun inventions of my lifetime is the Mini.

I must have made 20 different bicycles in my life; bicycle parts are like works of art in miniature.

It would of course be childish to think that the science of engineering, the rules of mechanics, had found application to organic nature;

Le temps est un don des dieux, prêté à l'homme pour qu'il en tire parti, pour qu'il en tire un parti utile, ingénieur, au service du progrès de l'humanité.

Now GE has connections with Siemens over here, they worked on the V-2 guidance

It is far easier to concentrate power than to concentrate knowledge. That is why so much social engineering backfires and why so many despots have led their countries into disasters.

Japan, newly emerging on the world scene in the late nineteenth century, sought its science and engineering in Scotland.

Students mismatched with institutions whose standards they did not meet would either fail to graduate as often as others or would manage to graduate only by avoiding difficult subjects like science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

Engineers and mechanics were as much products of the industrialization process as the material goods and the machinery by which those goods were produced.

Using machines to make other machines allowed finer tolerances to be maintained-sometimes down to a thousandth of an inch-and this in turn meant that parts could be made interchangeable.

It takes analytical skills worthy of a degree in civil engineering to understand when and where one is allowed to leave a car in Montreal.

I think one of the changes of our consciousness of how things come into being, of how things are made and how they work . . . is the change from an engineering paradigm, which is to say a design paradigm, to a biological paradigm, which is a cultural and evolutionary one. In lots and lots of areas now, people say, How do you create the conditions at the bottom to allow the growth of the things you want to happen?—Brian Eno

When we released JUnit 4 recently we spent nearly half of our engineering budget on reducing the cost of deployment for our clients. We tried to make sure that new-style tests would work with old tools and old-style tests would work with new tools. We also worked to make sure we had the freedom to make future changes to JUnit without breaking client code.

First you learn the value of abstraction, then you learn the cost of abstraction, then you're ready to engineer

We may discover resources on the moon or Mars that will boggle the imagination, that will test our limits to dream. And the fascination generated by further exploration will inspire our young people to study math, and science, and engineering and create a new generation of innovators and pioneers.

I think actually if you take the analogy with other areas of engineering, and increasingly of science and even mathematics, you can see people do not have to learn the vast number of formulae they used to learn. Instead, they have to learn to use the computer effectively. This frees them, I feel, to understand concepts and the foundations while they're learning the mechanics of the application of the theory.