Quotes About Engineering

I just want people to be excited about hard stuff, that's what engineering is.

I had gone to university and done engineering and then I got into art school and said I'm going to do this for three years.

What I like best is sitting in a room together with really smart engineers thinking about a problem.

When I was driving the simulator, out of the three engineers I worked with one was a woman. So it was very difficult for me to turn around and tell people that I worked in a male-dominated environment, because it wasn't.

I like to think about the future and how things can be done better than they are now. That's what engineers do.

I've spent my entire career in semiconductors.

Most of my career as an engineer, I was put in environments where I was the only person of color in the room.

The advance of genetic engineering makes it quite conceivable that we will begin to design our own evolutionary progress.

I am going to design... a Station after my own fancy that is, with engineering roofs, etc.

Visual design proved to be a fifth wonder of life. Buildings, terra-cotta warriors in China, dams, and paintings appeared in stories of awe from around the world.

Roman Technology

about 48 percent of GE's software is developed in India.

I do engineering, not religion.

I did graduate with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1948.

Those who incline to very strictly utilitarian views may perhaps feel that the peculiar powers of the Analytical Engine bear upon questions of abstract and speculative science rather than upon those involving everyday and ordinary human interests.

Another thing that was unique about working on this stuff was that I was engineering it. I used many of the things I had learned while I was away from the band. It sort of vindicated my decision to leave in '87.

Whether solid rockets are more or less likely to fail than liquid-fuel rockets is debatable. More serious, though, is that when they do fail, it's usually violent and spectacular.

Probably, if I created a venture fund, I would create a firm with virtual services not too different from the a16z model, but without employing people. So I would get CPOs, engineering talent, marketing people who wanted to be involved with the venture fund and provide services.

Virtually any pointed edifice is considered a candidate for alien engineering. After all, how could the Egyptians or Mayans have possibly stacked up stone blocks into pyramids?

I've always been a sucker for any technology engineered primarily for the entertainment of the human race - even such technology as has been disguised as 'useful' or 'improving' when we all know the real virtue lies in its ability to distract and divert.

Civil engineers build bridges. Electrical engineers, power grids. Software engineers, apps. From the engineers who created the Great Pyramids to the engineers who are designing and developing tomorrow's autonomous vehicles, these visionaries and their tangible creations are inextricably linked.

But, Wendell says, like my patient, I've come up with my own way to cope. If I screw up my life, I can engineer my own death rather than have it happen to me. It may not be what I want, but at least I'll choose it. Like cutting off my nose to spite my face, this is a way to say, Take that, uncertainty.

Form ever follows function.

Walt Disney defined Imagineering as the blending of creative imagination and technical know-how. I like