Engineer Quotes - page 8

Case studies of failure should be made a part of the vocabulary of every engineer so that he or she can recall or recite them when something in a new design or design process is suggestive of what went wrong in the case study. (Henry Petroski)
The Engineer is one who, in the world of physics and applied sciences, begets new things, or adapts old things to new and better uses; above all, one who, in that field, attains new results in the best way and at lowest cost. View quote
Henry R. Towne
The study of celestial phenomena at radio wavelengths, radio astronomy came into being after the accidental discovery of cosmic radiation by radio engineer, Karl Jansky in 1933. View quote
Honor Harger
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 identify more as a musician than as a singer, because I play piano and percussion, and I engineer and produce everything that I do. View quote
Janina Gavankar
I need to develop a car and engineer a car in a position that feels comfortable for me, and I don't think anyone can do a better job than I can in that position. The problem for me is if I can't get the car there I do struggle more than some. View quote
Jenson Button
You can't get a degree at Tisch College. It serves as an amplifier for what your focus is. If you're an engineer, you can take courses on understanding how to move a river in Africa to bring hydroelectric power to a community. View quote
Jonathan Tisch
When you're a kid and your father is an engineer, he goes to the office. I saw my father get up and go to the office in the house and write. But I don't see any similarities. View quote
Jacques Audiard
My father, a mining engineer and colliery manager, gave his brood many advantages not least of which, for me, was his love of singing which gave music a central place in our lives. View quote
James Black
Most of the work performed by a development engineer results in failure. View quote
Koichi Tanaka
The Engineer Corps is charged with all construction, including light railways and roads. (Kelly Miller)
My father has a manufacturing company in Kentucky, and he's an electrical engineer. A brilliant man. A brilliant businessman. So he understands the business aspects of my business very well. My dad and I always communicate when I have to negotiate a deal. View quote
Laura Bell Bundy
My father was a dentist. And my mother was a - do we still say 'housewife'? A home engineer. View quote
Laurie Simmons
I need to aspire to be a great CEO and not just a great product engineer. View quote
Mark Pincus
I went to military college in Canada and graduated as an officer in the Navy but also as an engineer. View quote
Marc Garneau
In order to predict effectively, we need to use science. And the reason that we need to use science is because then we can reproduce what we're doing; it's not just wisdom or guesswork. And if we can predict, then we can engineer the future. View quote
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
I'd do a demo recording by myself, layering instruments on top of one another, and while that's fun, it doesn't have the same impact as getting some great players together in a great studio with a great engineer and producer, then waiting for the magic. View quote
Bernie Leadon
I was nerdy girl who went to Catholic school and wanted to be an engineer. I was all set to attend the Illinois Institute of Technology. And then I took a hard left turn and studied Liberal Arts at Northern Illinois University, majored in Communications. Then worked in radio as a disk jockey and as the weather girl. View quote
Cindy Morgan
There's always something that an engineer can do to make microscopes better. View quote
Eric Betzig
I'm an artist and an engineer, which is, increasingly, a more common kind of hybrid. But I still fall into this weird crack where people don't seem to understand me. View quote
Golan Levin
I come from a pretty scientific family. My sister is a neurologist and my brother is an engineer. (Mary Elizabeth Winstead)
I pushed the process forward by saying, 'We should do this, this, and this right now. Please find the budget for me to find a structural engineer, a mechanical engineer, a civil engineer, so we can do the preliminary work. View quote
Michael Arad
When your parents are Middle Eastern immigrants, you have three choices. You can become a doctor, a lawyer or an engineer. View quote
Michael Mina
Ive been an engineer, barman, skip lorry driver, coalman, boat window manufacturer, contract grass cutter and builder. View quote
Neal Asher
I'm ready to do womenswear. You've always got to be inspired by something new - women have so much more shape and I'm about finding what to engineer around those shapes. View quote
Ozwald Boateng