Engineers Quotes - Page 13

• Aesthetics has become too important to be left to the aesthetes. To succeed, hard-nosed engineers, real estate developers, and MBAs must take aesthetic communication, and aesthetic pleasure, seriously. We, their customers, demand it.

  Virginia Postrel

  Real, Communication, Mba

  Virginia Postrel (2009). “The Substance of Style: How the Rise of Aesthetic Value Is Remaking Commerce, Culture, and Consciousness”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• Every technological product has to be designed and its fabrication overseen, and this is what engineers DO.

  Samuel Florman

  Technological, Fabrication, Products

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• We live technologically, with man as the master of nature, man as the engineer, and let anyone who raises his voice against it stop using bridges not built by nature.... No electric light bulbs, no engines, no atomic energy, no calculating machines, no anaesthetics-back to the jungle.

  Max Frisch

  Men, Light, Bridges

  Max Frisch (2006). “Homo Faber”, p.131, Penguin UK

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• To his and everybody else's way of thinking, you should build a house with your own hands before you start talking about being an engineer.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Thinking, Engineering, Hands

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• Watch with awe and amazement at how quickly an engineer will become totally annoyed by inefficiency.

  Rands

  Annoyed, Watches, Awe

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• 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.

  Nevil Shute

  Men, Fool, Pounds

  Nevil Shute (1954). “Slide rule: the autobiography of an engineer”

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• But I live very simply. I farm - there is something visceral about being attached to the land. I am a recording engineer. I do my own laundry most days and I get on with the business of living.

  Sandra Lerner

  Land, Laundry, Visceral

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• At that time [1909] the chief engineer was almost always the chief test pilot as well. That had the fortunate result of eliminating poor engineering early in aviation.

  Igor Sikorsky

  Engineering, Pilots, Tests

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• 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

  Mistake, Engineering, Essence

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• Being from a very traditional Chinese-American family, my parents believed the only options to have a successful life were to be a doctor, a lawyer, an engineer or a business person.

  Phillip Lim

  Successful, Doctors, Parent

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• An engineer can do for a dollar what any fool can do for two

  Arthur M. Wellington

  Two, Dollars, Fool

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• The life of an aviator seemed to me ideal. It involved skill. It brought adventure. It made use of the latest developments of science. Mechanical engineers were fettered to factories and drafting boards while pilots have the freedom of wind with the expanse of sky. There were times in an aeroplane when it seemed I had escaped mortality to look down on earth like a God.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Adventure, Wind, Sky

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• The lesson has already been learned with alcohol prohibition. We tried to engineer an alcohol-free society and ended up with huge criminal enterprises, government corruption, children lured into organized crime and random violence that took the lives of countless innocent people.

  Kurt Schmoke

  Children, Government, Random Violence

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• I pay two full-time assistants in my studio, plus consultants who are architects, engineers, and landscape architects, as well as lighting designers.

  Janet Echelman

  Two, Landscape, Pay

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• I do not want and will not take a royalty on any record I record. I think paying a royalty to a producer or engineer is ethically indefensible. The band write the songs. The band play the music. It's the band's fans who buy the records. The band is responsible for whether it's a great record or a horrible record. Royalties belong to the band. I would like to be paid like a plumber. I do the job and you pay me what it's worth.

  Steve Albini

  Song, Jobs, Writing

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• The Victorians were great engineers. They engineered a [schooling] system that was so robust that it's still with us today, continuously producing identical people for a machine that no longer exists.

  Sugata Mitra

  Motivation, Inspiration, People

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• Scientists build to learn; Engineers learn to build.

  Fred Brooks

  Learning, Scientist, Programming

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• It's [programming] the only job I can think of where I get to be both an engineer and an artist. There's an incredible, rigorous, technical element to it, which I like because you have to do very precise thinking. On the other hand, it has a wildly creative side where the boundaries of imagination are the only real limitation.

  Andy Hertzfeld

  Jobs, Real, Learning

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• ..there is need for a person to be generally educated. Otherwise you shrivel up much too soon. Whether this means reading the bible (I read the New Testament every few years) or reading the great 19th century novelists (the greatest and shrewdest judge of people and of society who ever lived), or classical philosophy (which I cannot read-it puts me to sleep immediately), or history (which is secondary). What matters is that the knowledge worker, by the time he or she reaches middle age, has developed and nourished a human being rather than a tax accountant or a hydraulic engineer.

  Peter Drucker

  Education, Business, Philosophy

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• There is no demand for women engineers, as such, as there are for women doctors; but there's always a demand for anyone who can do a good piece of work.

  Edith Clarke

  Doctors, Pieces, Demand

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• My father worked for governments all his life as an engineer and public works director.

  Edward Tufte

  Father, Government, Directors

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• The amateur software engineer is always in search of magic.

  Grady Booch

  Magic, Software

  Grady Booch, Robert Maksimchuk, Michael Engle, Jim Conallen, Kelli Houston (2007). “Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with Applications”, p.339, Pearson Education

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• The task of the software development team is to engineer the illusion of simplicity.

  Grady Booch

  Team, Simplicity, Tasks

  Grady Booch, Robert Maksimchuk, Michael Engle, Jim Conallen, Kelli Houston (2007). “Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with Applications”, p.40, Pearson Education

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• Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.

  Jamie Zawinski

  Science, Engineering, Might

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• He wondered what kind of blueprint beavers had for creating such a structure-or did they simply start aimlessly weaving stuff together until they had a dam? Did they even think about creating a dam? Maybe dams were simply accidents that resulted from their fooling around, much like the Army Corps of Engineers' accomplishments.

  Patrick F. McManus

  Army, Thinking, Rivers

  Patrick F. McManus (2011). “The Huckleberry Murders: A Sheriff Bo Tully Mystery”, p.124, Simon and Schuster

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