Engineering Quotes

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  A problem well stated is a problem half-solved.

  Charles Kettering

  Creativity, Innovation, Liberty

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  Architecture begins where engineering ends.

  Walter Gropius

  Design, Architecture, Ends

  Speech at Harvard Department of Architecture. "Architects on Architecture". Book by Paul Heyer, 1966.

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• Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been.

  Albert Einstein

  Design, Scientist, Civil Engineer

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  Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.

  Scott Adams

  Anger, Problem, Dilbert

  Scott Adams (1996). “The Dilbert principle: a cubicle's-eye view of bosses, meetings, management fads & other workplace afflictions”

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• Scientists study the world as it is, engineers create the world that never has been.

  Theodore von Karman

  World, Study, Scientist

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• Science can amuse and fascinate us all, but it is engineering that changes the world.

  Isaac Asimov

  Change, Science, World

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  Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

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• The engineering is secondary to the vision.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Inspirational, Vision

  Cynthia Ozick (2017). “Art and Ardor”, p.279, Atlantic Books

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  There's nothing I believe in more strongly than getting young people interested in science and engineering, for a better tomorrow, for all humankind.

  Bill Nye

  Believe, People, Tomorrow

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• A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.

  Freeman Dyson

  Science, Ideas, Design

  "Disturbing the Universe". Book by Freeman Dyson, 1979.

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• Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.

  James A. Michener

  Dream, Science, Technology

  James A. Michener (2014). “Space: A Novel”, p.537, Dial Press

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• There's an old joke that you know you're in heaven if the cooks are Italian and the engineering is German. If it's the other way around you're in hell.

  David Byrne

  Italian, Heaven, Way

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• An algorithm must be seen to be believed.

  Donald Knuth

  Algorithms, Computer Science

  Donald Ervin Knuth (1997). “The Art of Computer Programming: Fundamental algorithms”, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• The Mississippi River will always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise.

  Mark Twain

  Skills, Rivers, Way

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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, Might, Hackers

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• Therefore, O students, study mathematics and do not build without foundations.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Science, Foundation, Students

  Leonardo Da Vinci (1938). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”

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• You see, my ambition was not to confound the engineering world but simply to create a beautiful piece of art.

  Kit Williams

  Beautiful, Art, Ambition

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• Engineering is the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man.

  Thomas Tredgold

  Art, Men, Use

  The Times, London, June 30, 1828.

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• You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Inspirational, Change, Wisdom

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• 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

  Art, Thinking, Creative

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• The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there.

  Gordon Bell

  Programming, Software, Simplicity In Design

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• Manufacturing is more than just putting parts together. It's coming up with ideas, testing principles and perfecting the engineering, as well as final assembly.

  James Dyson

  Ideas, Together, Principles

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• Science is the study of what Is, Engineering builds what Will Be. The scientist merely explores that which exists, while the engineer creates what has never existed before.

  Theodore von Karman

  Study, Scientist, Engineers

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• The inspirational value of the space program is probably of far greater importance to education than any input of dollars... A whole generation is growing up which has been attracted to the hard disciplines of science and engineering by the romance of space.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Education, Growing Up, Inspiration

  "First on the Moon". Book by Michael Collins and Neil Armstrong, 1970.

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• Problems in human engineering will receive during the coming years the same genius and attention which the nineteenth century gave to the more material forms of engineering.
  We have laid good foundations for industrial prosperity, now we want to assure the happiness and growth of the workers through vocational education, vocational guidance, and wisely managed employment departments. A great field for industrial experimentation and statemanship is opening up.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Science, Years, Opening Up

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