Engineers Quotes

• Great engineers are a huge multiplier.

  Steve Jobs

  Huge

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

  Scott Adams

  Anger, Engineering, Problem

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

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• Engineers turn dreams into reality.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Dream, Reality, Turns

  "Kaze tachinu [The Wind Rises]". www.imdb.com. September 11, 2013.

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• The most important thing is to keep trying...

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Engineering, Important, Trying

  "Are You Sleeping through the Restoration?". Dieter F. Uchtdorf's address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. April 2014.

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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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• An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be.

  Oscar Wilde

  Glasses, Optimism, Needs

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• Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.

  Cory Doctorow

  Ideas, People, Stuff

  Cory Doctorow (2015). “Eastern Standard Tribe”, p.137, Booklassic

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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, Engineering

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

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• Architects and engineers are among the most fortunate of men since they build their own monuments with public consent, public approval and often public money.

  John Prebble

  Men, Engineering, Approval

  John Prebble (1956). “Disaster at Dundee”

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

  Albert Einstein

  Engineering, Design, Scientist

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• Engineering is not merely knowing and being knowledgeable, like a walking encyclopedia; engineering is not merely analysis; engineering is not merely the possession of the capacity to get elegant solutions to non-existent engineering problems; engineering is practicing the art of the organizing forces of technological change ... Engineers operate at the interface between science and society.

  Gordon S. Brown

  Art, Knowledge, Science

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

  Theodore von Karman

  Engineering, World, Study

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• My study is NOT as a climatologist, but from a completely different perspective in
  which I am an expert … For decades, as a professional experimental test engineer, I have analyzed experimental data and watched others massage and present data. I became a cynic; My conclusion - 'if someone is aggressively selling a technical product who's merits are dependent on complex experimental data, he is likely lying'. That is true whether the product is an airplane or a Carbon Credit.

  Burt Rutan

  Lying, Airplane, Data

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

  Isaac Asimov

  Change, Science, Engineering

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• One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  A Thousand and One Epigrams (1911)

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• This is not the age of pamphleteers. It is the age of the engineers. The spark-gap is mightier than the pen. Democracy will not be salvaged by men who talk fluently, debate forcefully and quote aptly.

  Lancelot Hogben

  Men, Age, Democracy

  Science for the Citizen (1938) epilogue

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• The future is not what it used to be.

  Yogi Berra

  Future, Happy Accidents, Used

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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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• Early in my career as an engineer, I’d learned that all decisions were objective until the first line of code was written. After that, all decisions were emotional.

  Ben Horowitz

  Emotional, Careers, Decision

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• Engineering is the art or science of making practical.

  Samuel Florman

  Art, Science, Engineering

  Samuel Florman (2013). “The Existential Pleasures of Engineering”, p.5, Souvenir Press

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• Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

  William Blake

  Engineering, Genius, Improvement

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.38, Univ of California Press

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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

  Engineering, Ideas, Together

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• No one wants to learn from mistakes, but we cannot learn enough from successes to go beyond the state of the art.

  Henry Petroski

  Success, Art, Mistake

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• When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.

  William Gibson

  Engineering, Design, Want

  William Gibson (2010). “Zero History”, p.183, Penguin

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