Engineer Quotes

A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering. (Freeman Dyson)
When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man. View quote
Herbert Hoover
The [engineer] should be equipped with knowledge of many branches of study and varied kinds of learning, for it is by his judgement that all work done by the other arts is put to test. This knowledge is the child of practice and theory. View quote
Vitruvius
When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer. View quote
Corrie Ten Boom
I failed in some subjects in exam, but my friend passed in all. Now he is an engineer in Microsoft and I am the owner of Microsoft. View quote
Bill Gates
A good engineer thinks in reverse and asks himself about the stylistic consequences of the components and systems he proposes. View quote
Helmut Jahn
I got out of high school, bought a recording studio and started operating it as an engineer and a producer. View quote
T Bone Burnett
As soon as we cease to believe in such an engineer and in a discourse which breaks with the received historical discourse, and as soon as we admit that every finite discourse is bound by a certain bricolage and that the engineer and the scientist are also species of bricoleurs, then the very idea of bricolage is menaced and the difference in which it took on its meaning breaks down. View quote
Jacques Derrida
A scientist studies what is, whereas an engineer creates what never was. View quote
Theodore von Kármán
The engineer, and more generally the designer, is concerned with how things ought to be - how they ought to be in order to attain goals, and to function. View quote
Herbert Simon
Being able to break security doesn't make you a hacker anymore than being able to hotwire cars makes you an automotive engineer. (Eric S. Raymond)
Engineering stimulates the mind. Kids get bored easily. They have got to get out and get their hands dirty: make things, dismantle things, fix things. When the schools can offer that, you'll have an engineer for life. View quote
Bruce Dickinson
My grandfather was an engineer who invented the automatic pilot for airplanes. View quote
Temple Grandin
I was a kind of a one-man army. I could solder circuits together, I could turn out things on the lathe, I could work with rockets and balloons. I'm a kind of a hybrid between an engineer and a physicist and astronomer. View quote
James Van Allen
I am an engineer, but what I find important and necessary is that you just learn things as you go along. View quote
Terrence Howard
Wit's an unruly engine, wildly striking sometimes a friend, sometimes the engineer. View quote
George Herbert
I wanted to be a psychological engineer, but we lacked the facilities, so I did the next best thing - I went into politics. It's practically the same thing. View quote
Isaac Asimov
So give me the political economist, the sanitary reformer, the engineer; and take your saints and virgins, relics and miracles. The spinning-jenny and the railroad, Cunard's liners and the electric telegraph, are to me, if not to you, signs that we are, on some points at least, in harmony with the universe; that there is a mighty spirit working among us, who cannot be your anarchic and destroying Devil, and therefore may be the Ordering and Creating God. View quote
Charles Kingsley
It has been said that an engineer is a man who can do for ten shillings what any fool can do for a pound; if that be so, we were certainly engineers. View quote
Nevil Shute
I am a Quantum Engineer, but on Sundays I Have Principles. View quote
John Stewart Bell
In fact, the science of thermodynamics began with an analysis, by the great engineer Sadi Carnot, of the problem of how to build the best and most efficient engine, and this constitutes one of the few famous cases in which engineering has contributed to fundamental physical theory. Another example that comes to mind is the more recent analysis of information theory by Claude Shannon. These two analyses, incidentally, turn out to be closely related. (Richard Feynman)
I've always felt that stylists such as you have in America are ashamed of a car and are preoccupied with making it look like something else, like a submarine or an airship...As an engineer, I revolt against this. View quote
Alec Issigonis
I do feel that evolution is being controlled by some sort of divine engineer. I can't help thinking that. And this engineer knows exactly what he or she is doing and why, and where evolution is headed. That's why we've got giraffes and hippopotami and the clap. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
Industrialism implies technology and the cutting of time into precise fragments suited to the needs of the engineer and the accountant. View quote
Harold Innis
I also think that everyone has an elitist approach to his own art, a complex knowledge of it, whether he is a clockmaker or an engineer. And I think it's perfectly legitimate to make use of this knowledge because it enriches the overall texture of life. View quote
Peter Greenaway