Arup Quotes

#1. Engineering problems are under-defined, there are many solutions, good, bad and indifferent. The art is to arrive at a good solution. This is a creative activity, involving imagination, intuition and deliberate choice.

Ove Arup

#2. What was my path to success? Well, there were some steps forward, some back, some to the side ... maybe it wasn't a path, but more of a dance.

Steve Maraboli

#3. I've got more important things to think about. I've got a yogurt to finish by today, the expiry date is today.

Gordon Strachan

#4. When engineers and quantity surveyors discuss aesthetics and architects study what cranes do we are on the right road.

Ove Arup

#5. Engineering is not a science. Science studies particular events to find general laws. Engineering design makes use of the laws to solve particular practical problems. In this it is more closely related to art or craft.

Ove Arup

#6. As soon as I take down her book and open it ... My skies rise higher and hang younger stars.

Eavan Boland

#7. Homelessness is the actor's fate; physical incapacity to attain what is most required and desired by such a spirit as I am a slave to.

Edwin Booth

#8. Penumbra [...] produces another e-reader - it's a Nook. Then another one, a Sony. Another one, marked KOBO. Really? Who has a Kobo?

Robin Sloan