Quotes About Engineering

Design is important, it's an important dimension in the car. It's not the only one.

There is a little bit of Nils Bohlin in every car.

[We're making materials] so light that you can make a car that two people can lift, but so strong that it has the crash-worthiness of an SUV.

You know, Scooter's going to do the first separation burn; I'm going to do the second separation burn.

If you try to engineer all of the risk out of a trade, it will only surface somewhere else when it is least welcome.

As early as the 1830s Charles Babbage had managed to construct a "Difference Engine" which could perform simple sums, but he soon became preoccupied with the far more complicated "Analytical Engine" which could add, subtract, multiply and divide as well as solve both algebraic and numerical equations; it had also been able to print out the results of its calculations onto stereotype plates. This was the engine which Gissing had come to see.

First-rate engineers, for instance, tend to take pride in not knowing anything about people. Human beings, they believe, are much too disorderly for the good engineering mind. Human resources professionals, by contrast, often pride themselves on their ignorance of elementary accounting or of quantitative methods altogether. But taking pride in such ignorance is self-defeating. Go to work on acquiring the skills and knowledge you need to fully realize your strengths.

Technology" does not necessarily mean "science and engineering." Techne, the Greek word from which "technology" derives, means, after all, "useful knowledge," or "organized skill," rather than "engineering.

Just as the Boeing 247's engineers had to downsize their engine because it lacked wing flaps, systems thinking without the discipline of mental models loses much of its power. The two disciplines go naturally together because one focuses on exposing hidden assumptions and the other focuses on how to restructure assumptions to reveal causes of significant problems.

An automobile piston should be round; but this phrase means nothing unless there is a way to measure the roundness of a particular piston.

Somos una nación de ingenieros que aspiran a ser reconocidos.

I see, in the future, bioengineered almost everything you can imagine that we use.

I have a huge love for architecture.

Canals are made of flat water, and flat water is difficult stuff to get hold of. It is expensive. You use locks to keep it flat when you go up hills. Sometimes, you have to take the water under hills in tunnels in order to preserve its flatness. Canals were not cheap to build.

Bullets are incompatible with pressurised environments and complex machinery.

Come to think of it, it is like production. Marketing designs the plan—what should be sold at what price, and how it should be sold. Sales actually goes out and implements the plan. Stylistically, marketing is like process engineering and sales is like production.

There is no all-?purpose computer built that weighs as little as a hundred and fifty pounds. You do.

Washing machines, vacuums, drills, pumps, and electric fans, among other things, are still powered by Tesla's perambulatory insight.

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Engineering is a predictive science, not a manipulative art.

Building robot versions of people is very expensive.

One very interesting framework for a company to succeed over time - beyond just business logic and analytics - is, do they have a reason why the best graduates in engineering programs will flock to them versus competitors?

The reason we chose vertical landing as our recovery architecture is that vertical landing scales really well.

Typically, highway bridges have about 50 years. But over in England, they have iron bridges approaching 250 years. In France, there are Roman aqueducts that are approaching 2,000 years old. So a bridge can last a very long time if it's built properly in the first place and then maintained properly.