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Quotes About Engineering

I believe in the unlimited power of women in the context of science and engineering.
~ Elizabeth Holmes
These characters are not spontaneous creations. They are engineered down to the last nut and bolt.
~ John Sandford
Engineers working in the 'black world' of classified military projects are often referred to in military circles as 'black hats.' There are a lot of jokes about the difference between 'white hats' and their spooky counterparts.
~ Trevor Paglen
F1 has to be the pinnacle of motor sport in terms of technology and performance.
~ Mattia Binotto
I think an engineer has not matured until he or she has conceived of a product and participated in every stage of bringing it to fruition, if that makes sense. And not many engineers get to do all of those stages.
~ Martin Cooper
When people have their own money at stake, it's a lot easier to find and settle on practical, no-nonsense solutions to engineering problems than is ever the case in the complex and endless deliberations of a government bureaucracy.
~ Robert Zubrin
I hate to take compromises with a racing car. The more standard a car is, the more compromises you have to take.
~ Michael Schumacher
Why kick the man downstream who can't put the parts together because the parts really weren't designed properly?
~ Philip Caldwell
Man was so engineered by God that the presence of the Creator within the creature is indispensable to His humanity.
~ W. Ian Thomas
A computer program is a message from a man to a machine. The rigidly marshaled syntax and the scrupulous definitions all exist to make intention clear to the dumb engine.
~ Fred Brooks
There's a saying in engineering: You can build things cheap, fast, or right, but not all three.
~ Temple Grandin
It's clearly a crisis of two things: of consciousness and conditioning. We have the technological power, the engineering skills to save our planet, to cure disease, to feed the hungry, to end war; But we lack the intellectual vision, the ability to change our minds. We must decondition ourselves from 10,000 years of bad behavior. And, it's not easy.
~ Terence McKenna
The purpose of a business is to get and keep a customer. Without customers, no amount of engineering wizardry, clever financing, or operations expertise can keep a company going.
~ Theodore Levitt
We can make aircrafts that can navigate a maze of hallways.
~ Vijay Kumar
And then, when I went into the Navy, there was no choice. You took about half of the hours during your naval training as naval courses and the other half were engineering.
~ Daniel J. Evans
I studied engineering at Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo, and between my junior and senior years I actually joined the Navy, while I was still in college.
~ Victor J. Glover
American citizens and communities should be free to choose where they would like to live and not be subject to federal neighborhood engineering at the behest of an overreaching federal government.
~ Paul Gosar
When I was little, I wanted to be a civil engineer. Not a ballerina, not a doctor, a civil engineer. I was such a nerd.
~ Bitsie Tulloch
Germans make nice cars.
~ Jason Behr
Telautomatics
~ Nikola Tesla
Since democratic leaders can't wait for the people to arrive at even general understanding and have to engineer consent to socially constructive goals and values, some obvious questions arise. Who makes the decisions about these goals and values? What factors enter into the decisions of "democratic leaders"? How is their "responsibility" and dedication to the public interest established?
~ Noam Chomsky
If you go back to a century ago, the major problems of electrical and mechanical engineering had to do with how to place a huge gun on a moving platform, namely a ship, designing it to be able to hit a moving object, another ship, so naval gunnery. That was the most advanced problem in metallurgy, electrical and mechanical engineering, and so on. England and Germany put huge efforts into it, the United States less so. Out of associated innovations comes the automotive industry.
~ Noam Chomsky
The Amalgamated Engineering and Foundryworkers' Union, for example, has adopted, as official policy, the program of nationalization of basic industries under "workers' control at all levels.
~ Noam Chomsky
communication engineering began with Gauss, Wheatstone, and the first telegraphers.
~ Norbert Wiener