Quotes About Engineering

Form follows function.

they were originally made from the metal remains of the first Québec Bridge. It collapsed in 1907, killing eighty-six workers. It was a catastrophic failure of engineering. The rings were made to remind engineers of that disaster, and the consequences of what they, what we, do.

I will build a motorcar for the multitude. It will be large enough for the family but small enough for the individual to run and care for. It will be constructed of the best materials, by the best men to be hired, after the simplest designs that modern engineering can devise. But it will be so low in price that no man making a good salary will be unable to own one—and enjoy with his family the blessings of hours of pleasure in God's great open spaces.

Thousands of engineers can design bridges, calculate strains and stresses, and draw up specifications for machines, but the great engineer is the man who can tell whether the bridge or the machine should be built at all, where it should be built, and when.

No design is possible until the materials with which you design are completely understood

The design of good houses requires an understanding of both the construction materials and the behavior of real humans.

The art of automobile design has progressed, until today it is regarded as one of the most important factors in the marketing of the automobile.

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

Designing aircraft and racing cars is an extremely exciting thing.

My father was a master carpenter and builder. Architectural design, engineering design, mechanical design, three-dimensional views, that was my shtick, my forte.

I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray.

It's tens of millions of calculations just to design one connection between a piece of structural steel and another piece of structural steel.

So I went for engineering, specifically product design, which I enjoyed.

Software and hardware design is less different than software designers think, but more different than hardware designers think.

Fiat has a lot going for it in terms of design, technology and efficiency.

If there is ever a science of programming language design, it will probably consist largely of matching languages to the design methods they support.

I was always pretty good at designing things.

Yaz?l?m konusunda iddial? insanlar kendi donan?mlar?n? yapmal?lar.

Objects and their manufacture are inseparable, you understand a product if you understand how it's made.

... man cannot help but transcend himself as soon as he begins to design and construct.

I've found that people who design computers don't know a lot about displays.

What's gotten in the way of education in the United States is a theory of social engineering that says there is ONE RIGHT WAY to proceed with growing up.

But I decided I wanted more education and I had to make a choice between starting law school, which was interesting to me, and going for a graduate degree in engineering.

I grew up in a close-knit community where I was expected to excel, and it was a different experience when I got to the university. There were very few students of color, and those numbers were extremely low in the school of engineering.