Quotes About Engineering

It takes 8,460 bolts to assemble an automobile, and one nut to scatter it all over the road.

An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be

Despite these advances, internal combustion engines remain rather inefficient prime movers and the overall process of converting the chemical energy of gasoline to the kinetic energy of a moving passenger car is extraordinarily wasteful.

From this era on, I think invention will be the parent of necessity – and not the other way around.' That was easy for Sherkaner Underhill to say. He didn't have to engineer the science into reality.

In part due to the 270 bridges they built from local materials, lightweight prefabricated sections were available to construct the largest known Bailey bridge, which was built across the Chindwin at Kalewa in December 1944.

Don't think that even an engineer, when he buys a motor, takes it to bits to scrutinize it. Even he as a specialist buys from the external appearance. A motor ought to look like a birthday present.

Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.

Happy 110th birthday to Frank Zamboni, who left us in 1988 but still resurfaces periodically.

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.

Most of our competitors were one-product wonders... They would do their one product, but never get their engineering sorted out.

I don'tsell cars; I sell engines. The cars I throw in for free since something has tohold the engines in.

The perfect racing car crosses the finish line first and subsequently falls into its component parts.

If you can leave two black stripes from the exit of one corner to the braking zone of the next, you have enough horsepower.

Horsepower sells cars, torque wins races

Turbochargers are for people who cant build engines.

Mr. Bentley - He builds fast trucks.

I had never stopped thinking about the ideal car… All I had to do was construct a plant to build it.

Give me a few bits of wool to stick on the car, a good gust of mistral wind, and I could come up with a better aerodynamic package on the bridge at Avigon

You can make them so small that they almost disappear, but I think headlights are also part of the face of a car.

I build my cars to go, not to stop.

All American cars are basically Chevrolets.

And that just shows you how important the car is in Formula One Racing.

I enjoy trying to develop a car and Mercedes are one of the biggest car manufacturers in the world.

A car designer is really a sculptor.