Engineer Quotes - page 2

You have teenagers thinking they're going to make millions as NBA stars when that's not realistic for even 1 percent of them. Becoming a scientist or engineer is. (Dean Kamen)
To Monsieur Eiffel the Engineer, the brave builder of so gigantic and original a specimen of modern Engineering from one who has the greatest respect and admiration for all Engineers including the Great Engineer the Bon Dieu. View quote
Thomas Edison
I am an engineer, not just an architect, so I've always been motivated by technique or technology. As soon as technology moves just a little bit, it changes architecture. View quote
Santiago Calatrava
Pictures, abstract symbols, materials, and colors are among the ingredients with which a designer or engineer works. To design is to discover relationships and to make arrangements and rearrangements among these ingredients. View quote
Paul Rand
An osteopath is only a human engineer, who should understand all the laws governing his engine and thereby master disease. View quote
Andrew Taylor Still
My father worked for governments all his life as an engineer and public works director. View quote
Edward R. Tufte
Having a mother who had been an aeronautical engineer convinced me that more things should be open to women. View quote
Elizabeth Moon
My dad never decided what he wanted to do; at times he fought in the army, was a teacher, a boxer, a light engineer, and a then a publican. My mum was a traditional housewife and mother. They showed my brother and I unconditional love. View quote
Anthony Browne
The scientist and the artist are both passionate about their exploration. What leads to my work is that I'm equally an artist and an engineer. View quote
Arthur Ganson
My engineer dad is where my technical acumen comes from. I remember him taking me to the factories to see how what works. Often he used to open up his motorbike to fix things and I saw how the wheels worked. His car used to be open for dissection very regularly. All this taught me and inspired me to look beyond what I could see on the skin. View quote
Bibhu Mohapatra
Video games are engineered now, but the step I am trying to take, no one can engineer. (Bill Budge)
I guess the two things I was most interested in were telescopes and steam engines. My father was an engineer on a threshing rig steam engine and I loved the machinery. View quote
Clyde Tombaugh
My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldn't understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be a chicken farmer. View quote
David Antin
Every time I went into the studio some engineer tried to impress me with how they're going to capture my sound with all kinds of tricks. But they limited the sound and never allowed me to play how I felt. View quote
Dick Dale
I'll tell you something: my dad was a nuclear engineer and he was really bright, and I've always said that because of negotiating at such a young age with my dad, it was really such a gift because I could then negotiate with very difficult personalities - and not end up being the scapegoat. I learned to really pick and choose my battles. View quote
Faith Prince
And so when I moved to IBM, I moved because I thought I could apply technology. I didn't actually have to do my engineer - I was an electrical engineer, but I could apply it. And that was when I changed. And when I got there, though, I have to say, at the time, I really never felt there was a constraint about being a woman. I really did not. View quote
Ginni Rometty
I can't stop watching 'Pan Am.' When I was growing up, my father worked as an engineer in Turkey, and we always flew Pan Am. The stewardesses were so glamorous! When they gave me a set of those golden wings, I felt very grown-up. Not only is the show's plot full of mystery and infidelity, they get the period details just right. View quote
Gayle King
My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918. View quote
James Rainwater
My father was an electrical engineer who worked at Westinghouse in Pittsburgh. When I was growing up, my mother wrote humor columns for the local paper. She was the Erma Bombeck of Murrysville, Pa. View quote
Jason Kilar
My brother and I were born in an Irish county called Tipperary. We were both very math- and science-inclined in high school. My dad trained as an electrical engineer, and my mom is in microbiology. View quote
John Collison
Better biofuels are a really big deal. That means we can precisely engineer the molecules in the fuel chain and optimize them along the way. So, if all goes well, they're going to have designer bugs in warm vats that are eating and digesting sugars to excrete better biofuels. I guess that's better living through bugs. (John Doerr)
As an engineer I'm constantly spotting problems and plotting how to solve them. View quote
James Dyson
However, the occasional visit of success provides just the excitement an engineer needs to face work the following day. View quote
Koichi Tanaka
When it came time to find employment, I set my sights on becoming an engineer at a home electronics manufacturer, a field that was closely related to my major at university. View quote
Koichi Tanaka
I have three siblings. My sister makes music. My older brother is a classical conductor, and my younger brother is a mixing engineer. View quote
Lisa Loeb