“Engineering is the art and science of nuts and bolts.”
― Haresh Sippy
“Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.”
― Scott Adams
“But remember this, Japanese boy... airplanes are not tools for war. They are not for making money. Airplanes are beautiful dreams. Engineers turn dreams into reality.”
― Hayao Miyazaki
“All we know about the new economic world tells us that nations which train engineers will prevail over those which train lawyers. No nation has ever sued its way to greatness.”
― Richard Lamm
“The fewer moving parts, the better." "Exactly. No truer words were ever spoken in the context of engineering.”
― Christian Cantrell
“Engineering is not only study of 45 subjects but it is moral studies of intellectual life.”
― Prakhar Srivastav
“Are engineers better at business than business people? It’s debatable. Business people certainly seems to have bigger houses, drive fancier cars, wear nicer clothes and have better looking mates. Engineers lack the time management skills to spend that kind of money. They waste all their time inventing ways to make the most money in the quickest, most efficient way possible. And then when they figure it out, they optimize the process.”
― Raul Perez
“Great triumphs of engineering genius—the locomotive, the truss bridge, the steel rail— ... are rather invention than engineering proper.”
― Arthur Mellen Wellington
“First rule of engineering; beware prototypes. Along with, avoid anything made by an engineer who doesn't have all his own fingers.”
― Simon R. Green
“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.”
― Bruce Dickinson
“I don’t spend my time pontificating about high-concept things; I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems.”
― Elon Musk
“A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.”
― Freeman Dyson
“To the optimist, the glass is half full. To the pessimist, the glass is half empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
― Unknown
“What we usually consider as impossible are simply engineering problems… there’s no law of physics preventing them.”
― Michio Kaku
“Architects and engineers are among the most fortunate of men since they build their own monuments with public consent, public approval and often public money.”
― John Prebble
“Engineering is the art of modelling materials we do not wholly understand, into shapes we cannot precisely analyse so as to withstand forces we cannot properly assess, in such a way that the public has no reason to suspect the extent of our ignorance.”
― Dr AR Dykes
“Engineering problems are under-defined, there are many solutions, good, bad and indifferent. The art is to arrive at a good solution. This is a creative activity, involving imagination, intuition and deliberate choice.”
― Ove Arup
“Engineering refers to the practice of organizing the design and construction [and, I would add operation] of any artifice which transforms the physical world around us to meet some recognized need.”
― GFC Rogers
“Engineering ... to define rudely but not inaptly, is the art of doing that well with one dollar, which any bungler can do with two after a fashion.”
― Arthur Mellen Wellington
“Engineers ... are not mere technicians and should not approve or lend their name to any project that does not promise to be beneficent to man and the advancement of civilization.”
― John Fowler
“Engineers ... are not superhuman. They make mistakes in their assumptions, in their calculations, in their conclusions. That they make mistakes is forgivable; that they catch them is imperative. Thus it is the essence of modern engineering not only to be able to check one's own work but also to have one's work checked and to be able to check the work of others.”
― Henry Petroski
“It is a great profession. There is the satisfaction of watching a figment of the imagination emerge through the aid of science to a plan on paper. Then it moves to realization in stone or metal or energy. Then it brings jobs and homes to men. Then it elevates the standards of living and adds to the comforts of life. That is the engineer's high privilege.”
― Herbert Hoover
“No doubt as years go by people forget which engineer did it, even if they ever knew. Or some politician puts his name on it. Or they credit it to some promoter who used other peoples money with which to finance it. But the engineer himself looks back at the unending stream of goodness that flows from his successes with satisfactions that few professions may know. And the verdict of his fellow professionals is all the accolade he wants.”
― Herbert Hoover
“One has to watch out for engineers - they begin with the sewing machine and end up with the atomic bomb.”
― Marcel Pagnol, Critiques des Critiques
“The history of engineering is really the history of breakages, and of learning from those breakages. I was taught at college 'the engineer learns most on the scrapheap'.”
― CA Claremont, Spanning Space
“The well being of the world largely depends upon the work of the engineer. There is a great future and unlimited scope for the profession; new works of all kinds are and will be required in every country, and for a young man of imagination and keenness I cannot conceive a more attractive profession. Imagination is necessary as well as scientific knowledge.”
― Sir William Halcrow
“When engineers and quantity surveyors discuss aesthetics and architects study what cranes do we are on the right road.”
― Ove Arup
“The life work of the engineer consists in the systematic application of natural forces and the systematic development of natural resources in the service of man.”
― Harry Walter Tyler
“The scientist discovers a new type of material or energy and the engineer discovers a new use for it.”
― Gordon Lindsay Glegg
“Can one think that because we are engineers, beauty does not preoccupy us or that we do not try to build beautiful, as well as solid and long-lasting, structures? Aren’t the genuine functions of strength always in keeping with unwritten conditions of harmony?”
― Gustave Eiffel
“A scientist can discover a new star but he cannot make one. He would have to ask an engineer to do it for him.”
― Gordon Lindsay Glegg
“Engineering is not merely knowing and being knowledgeable, like a walking encyclopedia; engineering is not merely analysis; engineering is not merely the possession of the capacity to get elegant solutions to non-existent engineering problems; engineering is practicing the art of the organising forces of technological change… Engineers operate at the interface between science and society.”
― Gordon Stanley Brown
“Engineering is quite different from science. Scientists try to understand nature. Engineers try to make things that do not exist in nature. Engineers stress invention.”
― Yuan-Cheng Fung
“Engineering is the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man.”
― Thomas Tredgold
“Engineering is the professional and systematic application of science to the efficient utilisation of natural resources to produce wealth."
― Theodore Jesse Hoover
“Engineering or technology is the making of things that did not previously exist, whereas science is the discovering of things that have long existed."
― David Billington
“Science can amuse and fascinate us all, but it is engineering that changes the world.”
― Isaac Asimov
“Scientists study the world as it is, engineers create the world that never has been.”
― Theodore von Karman
“The story of civilisation is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man’s good.”
― Lyon Sprague DeCamp
“The ideal engineer is a composite… He is not a scientist, he is not a mathematician, he is not a sociologist or a writer, but he may use the knowledge and techniques of any or all of these disciplines in solving engineering problems.”
― NW Dougherty
“Engineering is the science of economy, of conserving energy, kinetic and potential, provided and stored up by nature for the use of man. It is the business of engineering to utilise this energy to the best advantage, so that there may be the least possible waste.”
― William A Smith
“The engineer has been, and is, a maker of history.”
― James Kip Finch
“You see, my ambition was not to confound the engineering world but simply to create a beautiful piece of art.”
― Kit Williams
“A good engineer thinks in reverse and asks himself about the stylistic consequences of the components and systems he proposes.”
― Helmut Jahn
“Normal people believe that if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain’t broke, it doesn’t have enough features yet.”
― Scott Adams
Any idiot can build a bridge that stands, but it takes an engineer to build a bridge that barely stands.”
― Unknown
“If not for the compulsions of engineers, mankind would never have seen the wheel, settling instead for the trapezoid because some Neanderthal in marketing convinced everybody it had great braking ability.”
― Scott Adams
“The engineer is a mediator between the philosopher and the working mechanic and, like an interpreter between two foreigners must understand the language of both, hence the absolute necessity of possessing both practical and theoretical knowledge.”
― Henry Palmer
― Haresh Sippy
“Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.”
― Scott Adams
“But remember this, Japanese boy... airplanes are not tools for war. They are not for making money. Airplanes are beautiful dreams. Engineers turn dreams into reality.”
― Hayao Miyazaki
“All we know about the new economic world tells us that nations which train engineers will prevail over those which train lawyers. No nation has ever sued its way to greatness.”
― Richard Lamm
“The fewer moving parts, the better." "Exactly. No truer words were ever spoken in the context of engineering.”
― Christian Cantrell
“Engineering is not only study of 45 subjects but it is moral studies of intellectual life.”
― Prakhar Srivastav
“Are engineers better at business than business people? It’s debatable. Business people certainly seems to have bigger houses, drive fancier cars, wear nicer clothes and have better looking mates. Engineers lack the time management skills to spend that kind of money. They waste all their time inventing ways to make the most money in the quickest, most efficient way possible. And then when they figure it out, they optimize the process.”
― Raul Perez
“Great triumphs of engineering genius—the locomotive, the truss bridge, the steel rail— ... are rather invention than engineering proper.”
― Arthur Mellen Wellington
“First rule of engineering; beware prototypes. Along with, avoid anything made by an engineer who doesn't have all his own fingers.”
― Simon R. Green
“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.”
― Bruce Dickinson
“I don’t spend my time pontificating about high-concept things; I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems.”
― Elon Musk
“A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.”
― Freeman Dyson
“To the optimist, the glass is half full. To the pessimist, the glass is half empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
― Unknown
“What we usually consider as impossible are simply engineering problems… there’s no law of physics preventing them.”
― Michio Kaku
“Architects and engineers are among the most fortunate of men since they build their own monuments with public consent, public approval and often public money.”
― John Prebble
“Engineering is the art of modelling materials we do not wholly understand, into shapes we cannot precisely analyse so as to withstand forces we cannot properly assess, in such a way that the public has no reason to suspect the extent of our ignorance.”
― Dr AR Dykes
“Engineering problems are under-defined, there are many solutions, good, bad and indifferent. The art is to arrive at a good solution. This is a creative activity, involving imagination, intuition and deliberate choice.”
― Ove Arup
“Engineering refers to the practice of organizing the design and construction [and, I would add operation] of any artifice which transforms the physical world around us to meet some recognized need.”
― GFC Rogers
“Engineering ... to define rudely but not inaptly, is the art of doing that well with one dollar, which any bungler can do with two after a fashion.”
― Arthur Mellen Wellington
“Engineers ... are not mere technicians and should not approve or lend their name to any project that does not promise to be beneficent to man and the advancement of civilization.”
― John Fowler
“Engineers ... are not superhuman. They make mistakes in their assumptions, in their calculations, in their conclusions. That they make mistakes is forgivable; that they catch them is imperative. Thus it is the essence of modern engineering not only to be able to check one's own work but also to have one's work checked and to be able to check the work of others.”
― Henry Petroski
“It is a great profession. There is the satisfaction of watching a figment of the imagination emerge through the aid of science to a plan on paper. Then it moves to realization in stone or metal or energy. Then it brings jobs and homes to men. Then it elevates the standards of living and adds to the comforts of life. That is the engineer's high privilege.”
― Herbert Hoover
“No doubt as years go by people forget which engineer did it, even if they ever knew. Or some politician puts his name on it. Or they credit it to some promoter who used other peoples money with which to finance it. But the engineer himself looks back at the unending stream of goodness that flows from his successes with satisfactions that few professions may know. And the verdict of his fellow professionals is all the accolade he wants.”
― Herbert Hoover
“One has to watch out for engineers - they begin with the sewing machine and end up with the atomic bomb.”
― Marcel Pagnol, Critiques des Critiques
“The history of engineering is really the history of breakages, and of learning from those breakages. I was taught at college 'the engineer learns most on the scrapheap'.”
― CA Claremont, Spanning Space
“The well being of the world largely depends upon the work of the engineer. There is a great future and unlimited scope for the profession; new works of all kinds are and will be required in every country, and for a young man of imagination and keenness I cannot conceive a more attractive profession. Imagination is necessary as well as scientific knowledge.”
― Sir William Halcrow
“When engineers and quantity surveyors discuss aesthetics and architects study what cranes do we are on the right road.”
― Ove Arup
“The life work of the engineer consists in the systematic application of natural forces and the systematic development of natural resources in the service of man.”
― Harry Walter Tyler
“The scientist discovers a new type of material or energy and the engineer discovers a new use for it.”
― Gordon Lindsay Glegg
“Can one think that because we are engineers, beauty does not preoccupy us or that we do not try to build beautiful, as well as solid and long-lasting, structures? Aren’t the genuine functions of strength always in keeping with unwritten conditions of harmony?”
― Gustave Eiffel
“A scientist can discover a new star but he cannot make one. He would have to ask an engineer to do it for him.”
― Gordon Lindsay Glegg
“Engineering is not merely knowing and being knowledgeable, like a walking encyclopedia; engineering is not merely analysis; engineering is not merely the possession of the capacity to get elegant solutions to non-existent engineering problems; engineering is practicing the art of the organising forces of technological change… Engineers operate at the interface between science and society.”
― Gordon Stanley Brown
“Engineering is quite different from science. Scientists try to understand nature. Engineers try to make things that do not exist in nature. Engineers stress invention.”
― Yuan-Cheng Fung
“Engineering is the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man.”
― Thomas Tredgold
“Engineering is the professional and systematic application of science to the efficient utilisation of natural resources to produce wealth."
― Theodore Jesse Hoover
“Engineering or technology is the making of things that did not previously exist, whereas science is the discovering of things that have long existed."
― David Billington
“Science can amuse and fascinate us all, but it is engineering that changes the world.”
― Isaac Asimov
“Scientists study the world as it is, engineers create the world that never has been.”
― Theodore von Karman
“The story of civilisation is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man’s good.”
― Lyon Sprague DeCamp
“The ideal engineer is a composite… He is not a scientist, he is not a mathematician, he is not a sociologist or a writer, but he may use the knowledge and techniques of any or all of these disciplines in solving engineering problems.”
― NW Dougherty
“Engineering is the science of economy, of conserving energy, kinetic and potential, provided and stored up by nature for the use of man. It is the business of engineering to utilise this energy to the best advantage, so that there may be the least possible waste.”
― William A Smith
“The engineer has been, and is, a maker of history.”
― James Kip Finch
“You see, my ambition was not to confound the engineering world but simply to create a beautiful piece of art.”
― Kit Williams
“A good engineer thinks in reverse and asks himself about the stylistic consequences of the components and systems he proposes.”
― Helmut Jahn
“Normal people believe that if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain’t broke, it doesn’t have enough features yet.”
― Scott Adams
Any idiot can build a bridge that stands, but it takes an engineer to build a bridge that barely stands.”
― Unknown
“If not for the compulsions of engineers, mankind would never have seen the wheel, settling instead for the trapezoid because some Neanderthal in marketing convinced everybody it had great braking ability.”
― Scott Adams
“The engineer is a mediator between the philosopher and the working mechanic and, like an interpreter between two foreigners must understand the language of both, hence the absolute necessity of possessing both practical and theoretical knowledge.”
― Henry Palmer
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