31 Quotes About Engineering

Engineers are problem-solvers and pioneers. They look at things from a different angle and create solutions that make everyone’s lives easier. Engineers are constantly looking for better ways to do things. They constantly think of new ideas and constantly create new technology Read more

If you’re an engineer, you can learn a lot from this collection of engineering quotes and encourage yourself to always push the boundaries and create new ways of thinking and doing things.

Each type of knowledge has value; however, from an engineering...
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Each type of knowledge has value; however, from an engineering point of view, practical knowledge seems to be more valuable than theoretical knowledge. Eraldo Banovac
Don't be average and lazy, If you want to successes...
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Don't be average and lazy, If you want to successes you should work hard to achieve it Aymen Tmar
The fewer moving parts, the better.
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The fewer moving parts, the better." "Exactly. No truer words were ever spoken in the context of engineering. Christian Cantrell
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Stephenson had large wrought-iron boiler plates available and he also had the courage of his calculations.. The idea found its best-known expression in the Menai railway bridge opened in 1850. Stephenson's beams, which weighed 1, 500 tons each, were built beside the Straits and were floated into position between the towers on rafts across a swirling tide. They were raised rather over a hundred feet up the towers by successive lifts with primitive hydraulic jacks. All this was not done without both apprehension and adventure; they were giants on the earth in those days. J.E. Gordon
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We tend to hear much more about the splendors returned than the ships that brought them or the shipwrights. It has always been that way. Even those history books enamored of the voyages of Christopher Columbus do not tell much about the builders of the Nina the Pinta and the Santa Maria or about the principle of the caravel. These spacecraft their designers builders navigators and controllers are examples of what science and engineering set free for well-defined peaceful purposes can accomplish. Those scientists and engineers should be role models for an America seeking excellence and international competitiveness. They should be on our stamps. Carl Sagan
Women, on the other hand, had to wield their intellects...
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Women, on the other hand, had to wield their intellects like a scythe, hacking away against the stubborn underbrush of low expectations. Margot Lee Shetterly
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Kevyn, Ennesby tells me you are building a time machine. Actually I'm finished. In one afternoon? Wow... Does it work? After a fashion.... I put a whole lot of energy into it, and the next thing I knew it was time for dinner.- Captain Tagon & Commander Andreyasn Howard Tayler
Engineering is the continuation of politics by other means
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Engineering is the continuation of politics by other means Larrie D. Ferreiro
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Unfortunately, humans have a long history of trying to fix their engineering mistakes with more engineering mistakes! Steven Magee
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[John] Kobak explained, 'The way you learn anything is that something fails, and you figure out how not to have it fail again. Robert S. Arrighi
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One man’s “magic” is another man’s engineering. “Supernatural” is a null word. Robert A. Heinlein
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I didn't have a drill, so I had to make my own. First I heated a long nail in the fire, then drove it through a half a maize cob, creating a handle. I placed the nail back on the coals until it became red hot, then used it to bore holes into both sets of plastic blades. William Kamkwamba
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A pessimist says the glass is half empty, an optimist says the glass is half full, and an engineer says the glass is too big. Scott Edward Shjefte
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Engineering is not only study of 45 subjects but it is moral studies of intellectual life. Prakhar Srivastav
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Inventions are smarter than their inventors Larrie D. Ferreiro
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Nothing is easier than yesterday's solutions. Roger Sperry
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Great triumphs of engineering genius–the locomotive, the truss bridge, the steel rail– ... are rather invention than engineering proper. Arthur Mellen Wellington
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Philosophy in its old form could exist only in the absence of engineering, but with engineering in existence and daily more active and far reaching, the old verbalistic philosophy and metaphysics have lost their reason to exist. They were no more able to understand the "production" of the universe and life than they are now able to understand or grapple with "production" as a means to provide a happier existence for humanity. They failed because their venerated method of "speculation" can not produce, and its place must be taken by mathematical thinking. Mathematical reasoning is displacing metaphysical reasoning. Engineering is driving verbalistic philosophy out of existence and humanity gains decidedly thereby. Only a few parasites and "speculators" will mourn the disappearance of their old companion "speculation." The world of producers -the predominating majority of human beings- will welcome a philosophy of ordered thought and production. Alfred Korzybski
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Teachers need to be more inspirational. But it's also up to engineering to make itself more interesting. Bruce Dickinson
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I emphasize that virtually every engineering calculation is ultimately a failure calculation, because without a failure criterion against which to measure the calculated result, it is a meaningless number. Henry Petroski
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I did graduate with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1948. Daniel J. Evans
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Science is about knowing engineering is about doing. Henry Petroski
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Genetic engineering is a result of science advancement, so I don't think that in itself is bad. If used wisely, genetics can be beneficial, but they can be abused, too. Hideo Kojima
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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
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Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences - large scale engineering, neuroscience. Paolo Bacigalupi
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Architecture begins where engineering ends. Walter Gropius
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Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering. Bill Gates
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Biological engineering is not necessarily understanding systems but rather, I want to be able to design and build biological systems to perform particular applications. Drew Endy
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The walls between art and engineering exist only in our minds. Theo Jansen
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Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology. Karl Popper