Engineering Quotes

All of physics is either impossible or trivial. It is impossible until you understand it, and then it becomes trivial.

Genetic engineering has never been about saving the world, it's about controlling the world.

I don't know why I always liked aerospace engineering. I was in the 10th grade when I figured that's what I wanted to do.

I am opposed to the laying down of rules or conditions to be observed in the construction of bridges lest the progress of improvement tomorrow might be embarrassed or shackled by recording or registering as law the prejudices or errors of today.

A lawyer’s either a social engineer or … a parasite on society … A social engineer [is] a highly skilled, perceptive, sensitive lawyer who [understands] the Constitution of the United States and [knows] how to explore its uses in the solving of problems of local communities and in bettering conditions of the underprivileged citizens.

I am going to design, in a great hurry, and I believe to build a station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc. etc. It is at Paddington, in cutting, and admitting of no exterior, all interior and all roofed in.

When wireless is fully applied the earth will be converted into a huge brain, capable of response in every one of its parts.

Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.

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

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.

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

Strive for perfection in everything you do.

An algorithm must be seen to be believed.

I was in school studying civil engineering. A guy approached me on the street and said that I had a interesting look-very exotic. He told me I should try to be in the industry.

Experimental confirmation of a prediction is merely a measurement. An experiment disproving a prediction is a discovery.

Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.

Protein engineering is a technology of molecular machines - of molecular machines that are part of replicators - and so it comes from an area that already raises some of the issues that nanotechnology will raise.

Take the best that exists and make it better.

Architecture begins where engineering ends.

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

The engineering of consent is the very essence of the democratic process, the freedom to persuade and suggest.

Very few people can communicate with one another. The only language that's not subject to interpretation is mathematics, chemistry, basic science, engineering principles, and applied agriculture. But other than that, many systems today are subject to interpretation.

Birds in flight fascinate me. I admire eagles and falcons. I’m inspired by a feather but also its color, its graphics, its weightlessness and its engineering. It’s so elaborate. In fact I try and transpose the beauty of a bird to women.

Social engineering bypasses all technologies, including firewalls.

The purpose of a business is to get and keep a customer. Without customers, no amount of engineering wizardry, clever financing, or operations expertise can keep a company going.