Quotes About Engineering

After showing them the blast furnaces, rolling mills and armour-plate works, Hitler and Ribbentrop took Mussolini alone into a hall where Krupp engineers took the tarpaulins off Hitler's proudest possession – a gun barrel so huge that it had to be transported on two parallel railroad tracks. Mussolini stroked it and congratulated the Führer, clearly astonished at the weapon's size.

I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam.

Proper accounting is like engineering. You need a margin of safety. Thank God we don't design bridges and airplanes the way we do accounting.

The Americans cannot build aeroplanes. They are very good at refrigerators and razor blades.

To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.

Any day we create that much shrapnel is a good day.

I think people are realizing that engineering and science are extremely good degrees to get and you'll be very highly paid once you've got them.

It always helps to be a good programmer. It is important to like computers and to be able to think of things people would want to do with their computers.

My first jobs after graduation in 1955 were as a project engineer for G.E. and later with the U.S. government in Washington, D.C., where I met and married my wife, Dolores Celini.

Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it.

Chrysler builds great cars.

'Social engineering, ' the fancy term for tricking you into giving away your digital secrets, is at least as great a threat as spooky technology.

I always see what's... wrong. Would you want that? When I see a car or a rocket or spacecraft, I only see what's wrong. I never see what's right. It's not a recipe for happiness.

Probably the TV show I've watched the most is 'How It's Made' on the History Channel. I could watch 24 hours of 'How It's Made' and never get bored.

The idea of engineering is an idea of mastery. And today the role that we are being asked to play is a role based on informed humanity.

Among all the machines, motorcar is my favorite machine.

LEGO has essentially taken the concrete block, the building block of the world, and made it into the building block of our imagination.

As I hurtled through space, one thought kept crossing my mind - every part of this rocket was supplied by the lowest bidder.

If geek means you're willing to study things, and if you think science and engineering matter, I plead guilty. If your culture doesn't like geeks, you are in real trouble.

I don't spend my time pontificating about high-concept things; I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems.

The engineers of the future will be poets.

I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly.

Windows 95 is what Rube Goldberg would have designed if he'd studied cartooning at M.I.T.

I take computers practically apart and put them back together. I have a supercomputer I built over the years out of different computers.