Engineering Quotes - Page 3

• Engineering is a predictive science, not a manipulative art.

  D. Elton Trueblood

  Art, Science, Manipulative

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• Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.

  Bill Gates

  Combination, Software, Artistry

  Bill Gates, Janet Lowe (1998). “Bill Gates Speaks: Insight from the World's Greatest Entrepreneur”, p.70, John Wiley & Sons

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• Engineers use knowledge primarily to design, produce, and operate artifacts. ... Scientists, by contrast, use knowledge primarily to generate more knowledge.

  Walter Guido Vincenti

  Knowledge, Science, Design

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• Great triumphs of engineering genius-the locomotive, the truss bridge, the steel rail- ... are rather invention than engineering proper.

  Arthur M. Wellington

  Science, Bridges, Triumph

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• In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.

  Charles Darwin

  Teamwork, Creativity, Knowledge

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.23, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• But I decided I wanted more education and I had to make a choice between starting law school, which was interesting to me, and going for a graduate degree in engineering.

  Daniel J. Evans

  School, Law, Starting Over

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• I worked with such concentration and focus and I had hundreds of obscure engineering or programming things in my head. I was just real exceptional in that way

  Steve Wozniak

  Real, Focus, Way

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• Indeed, the woes of Software Engineering are not due to lack of tools, or proper management, but largely due to lack of sufficient technical competence.

  Niklaus Wirth

  Tools, Woe, Management

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• So I went for engineering, specifically product design, which I enjoyed.

  Debi Thomas

  Design, Enjoyed, Products

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• The public should know that the liability issues here have yet to be resolved, or even raised. If you're a farmer and you're growing a genetically engineering food crop, those genes are going to flow to the other farm.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Gmos, Issues, Growing

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• Asian countries produce eight times as many engineering bachelors as the United States, and the number of U.S. students graduating at the masters and PhD levels in these areas is declining.

  Mark Kennedy

  Country, Eight, Numbers

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• It is a great profession. There is the fascination of watching a figment of the imagination emerge through the aid of science to a plan on paper. Then it moves to realization in stone or metal or energy. Then it brings jobs and homes to men. Then it elevates the standards of living and adds to the comforts of life. That is the engineer's high privilege.

  Herbert Hoover

  Jobs, Moving, Home

  Herbert Hoover (1951). “The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover: Years of adventure, 1874-1920”

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• I was always fascinated by engineering. Maybe it was an attempt maybe to get my father's respect or interest, or maybe it was just a genetic love of technology, but I was always trying to build things.

  James Cameron

  Father, Technology, Always Trying

  James Cameron, Brent Dunham (2012). “James Cameron: Interviews”, p.110, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• A failed structure provides a counterexample to a hypothesis and shows us incontrovertibly what cannot be done, while a structure that stands without incident often conceals whatever lessons or caveats it might hold for the next generation of engineers.

  Henry Petroski

  Generations, Done, Lessons

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• [M]anufacturing, science and engineering are ... incredibly creative. I'd venture to say more so than creative advertising agencies and things that are known as the creative industries.

  James Dyson

  Creativity, Science, Agency

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• I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.

  Walter Isaacson

  Smart, Thinking, People

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• I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success ... Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

  Nikola Tesla

  Motivational, Success, Heart

  "Marconi and Tesla: Pioneers of Radio Communication" by Tim O'Shei, (p. 5), 2008.

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• I think through education, belief in God, and good engineering, our children become a lot better at what they're doing than we did, and that starts with the very first sign of life on the face of this earth.

  Evel Knievel

  Children, Thinking, Earth

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• I don't spend my time pontificating about high-concept things; I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Problem, My Time

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In engineering, that only is great which achieves. It matters not what the intention is, he who in the day of battle is not victorious is not saved by his intention.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Greatness, Achievement, Victory

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• What need the bridge much broader than the flood?

  William Shakespeare

  Bridges, Needs, Flood

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1785). “The Plays of William Shakspeare ...”, p.280

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• 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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• Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Wise

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  One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null word.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Men, Usa, Magic

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.236, Penguin

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• I do engineering, not religion.

  Daniel J. Bernstein

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