Engineering Inspirational Quotes - Page 2

• A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

  Douglas Adams

  Inspirational, Funny, Fake People

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.690, Pan Macmillan

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• Strive for perfection in everything you do.

  Henry Royce

  Engineering, Perfection, Strive

  "I Know You Got Soul". Rolls-Royce, p. 19. Book by Jeremy Clarkson, 2004.

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• One man's magic is another man's gluey torture session.

  Jackie Earle Haley

  Men, Engineering, Magic

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• I've never seen a job being done by a five-hundred-person engineering team that couldn't be done better by fifty people.

  Gordon Bell

  Jobs, Team, Science

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• Knowing there is a structure, hidden or felt, to the random gives pleasure.

  Cecil Balmond

  Engineering, Knowing, Giving

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• The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Twitter post from Jan 30, 2017

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• The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering-that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.

  L. Sprague de Camp

  Struggle, Men, Engineering

  L. Sprague de Camp (1963). “The Ancient Engineers”

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