Engineering Quotes - page 11

Successful engineering is all about understanding how things break or fail. (Henry Petroski)
The dollar is the final term in almost every equation which arises in the practice of engineering in any or all of its branches, except qualifiedly as to military and naval engineering, where in some cases cost may be ignored. View quote
Henry R. Towne
I went to engineering school, I went to physics class. I said, 'Screw this, I don't want to be here. I'd much rather be at a club playing music. View quote
Huey Lewis
At Stanford, we teach 'design thinking' - that is, we put together small, interdisciplinary groups to figure out what the true needs are and then to apply the art of engineering to serve them. View quote
Hasso Plattner
While I was at Cornell in engineering, I was an engineering co-op student, and that turned out to be very valuable because we'd go out every other term to work in industry and have that close association with industry. View quote
Irwin M. Jacobs
I am going to design... a Station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc. View quote
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
My dad wanted me to be a professional person, which I was - I was a civil engineer. I graduated from civil engineering at USC in California. I became an engineer, and I helped design the roads for the L.A. County Roads Department. And I did that for about one and a half years in a sense to please my parents - to be a 'respectable' person. View quote
James Hong
I never studied sculpture, engineering or architecture. In fact, after college I applied to seven art schools and was rejected by all seven. View quote
Janet Echelman
This is a global fight to get the right people in the right place and we're talking about people with PhDs in engineering, computer science, mathematics. View quote
Jerry Moran
Right now people are interested in genetic engineering to help the human race. That's a noble cause, and that's where we should be heading. But once we get past that - once we understand what genetic diseases we can deal with - when we start thinking about the future, there's an opportunity to create some new life-forms. View quote
Jack Horner
There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy. (John Baldacci)
You had to make a camera look like it's traveling at 300 mph, but you couldn't make it actually travel at 300 mph so you had to slow everything down and build devices to do that. So you were constantly engineering. View quote
John Dykstra
My latter schooldays and my university days were during the war, when science - physics, in particular - was a very important and glamorous subject. A lot of us felt that if we couldn't get into science, we might try engineering or medicine. View quote
John Henry Carver
Basically, if reverse engineering is banned, then a lot of the open source community is doomed to fail. View quote
Jon Lech Johansen
I'm not into politics but I am committed to a cause: ensuring design technology and engineering stays on the U.K. curriculum, alongside science and maths - grounding abstract theory, merging the practical with the academic. View quote
James Dyson
Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it. View quote
James Dyson
Engineering undergraduates should not be charged fees. They should receive grants, not student loans, and the government will get the money back long-term from increased exports. View quote
James Dyson
Engineering is treated with disdain, on the whole. It's considered to be rather boring and irrelevant, yet neither of those is true. View quote
James Dyson
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. View quote
James Dyson
My grandfather on my mother's side was a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; my other grandfather was a lawyer, and one time Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives. View quote
Kenneth G. Wilson
In 1978, I entered Tohoku University, into the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Technology. (Koichi Tanaka)
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. View quote
Lindsey Buckingham
Many of the issues we face in dealing with rapid climate change are well suited to an engineering mind. View quote
Larry Brilliant
We know that to compete for the jobs of the 21st century and thrive in a global economy, we need a growing, skilled and educated workforce, particularly in the areas of science, technology, engineering and math. Americans with bachelor's degrees have half the unemployment rate of those with a high school degree. View quote
Mark Pocan
British innovation in design, in the creative arts, in engineering and manufacturing is world class. View quote
Margaret Heffernan