Top 100 Engineer Quotes
#1. I failed in some subjects in exam, but my friend passed in all. Now he is an engineer in Microsoft and I am the owner of Microsoft.
Bill Gates
#2. He didn't say "that's weird". He wouldn't have said "that's weird" if a flock of sheep had cycled past playing violins. It wasn't the sort of thing a responsible engineer said.
Terry Pratchett
#3. Would anyone but a crazed bicephalous being, half engineer, half poet, willingly shackle himself to a venture of such magnitude? I am prisoner of my dream.
Philippe Petit
#4. I went to Carnegie Mellon and was an electrical engineer, but electrical engineering wasn't right for me.
David M. Kelley
#5. The reason she had taken the long way round was on the unlikely chance that she might engineer an "accidental" meeting with Benjamin Cole.
Kate Atkinson
#6. I pushed the process forward by saying, 'We should do this, this, and this right now. Please find the budget for me to find a structural engineer, a mechanical engineer, a civil engineer, so we can do the preliminary work.'
Michael Arad
#7. To be a good professional engineer, always start to study late for exams because it teaches you how to manage time and tackle emergencies.
Bill Gates
#8. Bobby is really the one who did all the editing on that stuff. And he did all the mixing. I particularly like the record we did with Logic because Scott Harding did a great job mixing it. He's really a killing engineer.
Charlie Hunter
#9. I'm an engineer by trade so I've always been interested in engineering and technology but also I've a strong interest in self build and off-grid properties and how it would affect us in terms of lifestyle.
Andy Griffiths
#11. I never knew what an engineer did for a living when I was a kid. I still don't.
Scott Adams
#12. The [engineer] should be equipped with knowledge of many branches of study and varied kinds of learning, for it is by his judgement that all work done by the other arts is put to test. This knowledge is the child of practice and theory.
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
#13. My father has a manufacturing company in Kentucky, and he's an electrical engineer. A brilliant man. A brilliant businessman. So he understands the business aspects of my business very well. My dad and I always communicate when I have to negotiate a deal.
Laura Bell Bundy
#14. God is the Great Engineer, creating circumstances to bring about moments in our lives of divine importance, leading us to divine appointments
Oswald Chambers
#15. I will miss you
not because you taught me,
not because you helped me on all steps of education;
but only because
you made me a leader to lead as an perfect Electrical Engineer.
Hasil Paudyal
#16. An osteopath is only a human engineer, who should understand all the laws governing his engine and thereby master disease.
Andrew Taylor Still
#17. Engineer is the one who thinks Dark Fantasy is a condom and not a biscuit
Subhasis Das
#19. The biggest mistake a person can make is to lie to an engineer about a subject that they specialize in.
Steven Magee
#20. Case studies of failure should be made a part of the vocabulary of every engineer so that he or she can recall or recite them when something in a new design or design process is suggestive of what went wrong in the case study.
Henry Petroski
#21. Without 'The Brady Bunch,' my guess is I would have become an engineer working on new plastics or something.
Mike Lookinland
#22. My mother and father were supportive. But in an Italian family, you kind of work with your hands, or you are an engineer or a doctor. But an actor was something they couldn't get hold of. They were afraid I wouldn't be able to make a living, and for many years, they were right.
Michael Rispoli
#23. I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer, born under the second law of thermodynamics, steeped in steam tables, in love with free-body diagrams, transformed by Laplace and propelled by compressible flow.
Neil Armstrong
#24. The Swedish engineer who invented the zip fastener made a greater intellectual leap than many scientists do in a lifetime.
Martin Rees
#25. My father was an electrical engineer who worked at Westinghouse in Pittsburgh. When I was growing up, my mother wrote humor columns for the local paper. She was the Erma Bombeck of Murrysville, Pa.
Jason Kilar
#26. IT engineer is not a profession but a different species
Subhasis Das
#27. In the end it's your knowledge that will prove you as an Engineer, Even i can score better if sacrificed thinking practically..
Srinivas Shenoy
#28. I was always a silent comedy nerd. I would stay up late and sneak downstairs to watch 'Saturday Night Live' and 'Kids in the Hall,' and things like that. Very early on, my parents realized that I was not going to be an engineer or a doctor. I just don't have those inclinations, at all.
Mindy Kaling
#29. An Engineer is no match for a Historian with his dander up!
Philip Reeve
#30. Remember that in 1993 a company with a bad Web site needed an engineer. Today, a company with a bad Web site needs a psychiatrist.
Philip Greenspun
#31. I just wondered if you always carry a miniature tool kit when you take a woman out to dinner."
"Always. I'm an engineer.
Jayne Castle
#32. Studios are designed to pull out all of that beautiful ambience you get from singing in a room, and then the engineer puts it back in digitally or through whatever machinery you've got.
Patty Griffin
#33. I'd been in a couple situations where I'd seen bands realize that they didn't have to get a good take in order to get something that sounded like a song. The musicians are there and they don't quite have it together, and then the engineer says, "Oh! That's okay, I'll just cut and paste the verse!"
J. Robbins
#34. The task of the software development team is to engineer the illusion of simplicity.
Grady Booch
#35. The Stones are not the kind of band that want to get in the details. That's why they have a producer and engineer - to pull the magic out of them and make them sound so great.
Nikki Sixx
#36. Before I became a game designer, I was a software engineer.
Jane Jensen
#37. When this engineer, Sergeant Mukherjee, grabbed me by the arm
Max Brooks
#38. George Washington was quite a farmer. He was a farmer, Civil Engineer and gentleman. He made enough at civil engineering to indulge in both the other luxuries.
Will Rogers
#39. The word meltdown had not yet entered the reactor engineer's vocabulary - Fermi was only then inventing that specialty - but that is what Compton was risking, a small Chernobyl in the midst of a crowded city.
Richard Rhodes
#40. How is it that mankind can engineer condoms to prevent pregnancy and STDs and not be able to invent some sort of emotional safeguard? Is it even possible to abstain from falling in love?
Daria Snadowsky
#41. Keeping an open mind is a virtue - but, as the space engineer James Oberg once said, not so open that your brains fall out.
Carl Sagan
#42. As an engineer, I tended to maintain my own equipment along with developing the processes for it.
Brian Krzanich
#43. Don't go to the same studio twice, or work with the same engineer twice.
Stephen Malkmus
#44. I've always felt that stylists such as you have in America are ashamed of a car and are preoccupied with making it look like something else, like a submarine or an airship ... As an engineer, I revolt against this.
Alec Issigonis
#45. To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.
Ezra Pound
#46. Everyone who gives up a serious childhood dream
of becoming an artist, a doctor, an engineer, an athlete
lives the rest of their life with a sense of loss, with nagging what ifs,
Glenn Kurtz
#47. If he is going into management, he writes. If he is an engineer or architect why he paints or sculpts. He will straddle the line, aware up to the point of knowing he is getting the worst of both worlds, but never stopping to wonder why there should ever be a line, or even if there is a line at all.
Thomas Pynchon
#48. My father, an engineer, was the gentlest man I knew.
Kevin McCloud
#49. What we look for are people that are technically competent. You need a background in a scientific field, whether it's as a scientist, an engineer, medical doctor, or, you know, a person that's in the military with some kind of technical background.
Scott Kelly
#50. It infuriates me that stuff from the Internet routinely doesn't include all the credits. Because as soon as I listen to something, if I like it, I want to know, "Who's the bass player?" "Who did that?" "Who's the engineer on this?"
Brian Eno
#51. Don't drag the engine, like an ignoramus, but bring wood and water and flame, like an engineer.
Maria Weston Chapman
#52. There were few worse criminals on any world than the engineer who blithely and knowingly hands over to a tyrant the tools of oppression.
David Brin
#53. Mr. Pony struggled manfully with the engineer's permanent dread of having to commit himself to anything, and managed, "Well, if we don't lose too many staff, and the winter isn't too bad, but of course there's always -
Terry Pratchett
#54. It was the engineer who determined what problems to investigate, designed the experiments, and defined the assignments for the mathematicians.
Margot Lee Shetterly
#55. One kind of person is engaged in society without realizing it; another kind engages in society by controlling it. The one is a gear, a cog, and the other an engineer, a driver. But a person who has opted out has only his ability to express his disengagement between his existence and nothingness.
John Fowles
#56. Deftly engineered. McCarthy challenges us all - not just engineers - to take responsibility for the ways in which we all increasingly engineer the world.
Carl Mitcham
#57. My parents were farmers' kids from South Dakota. My dad was an engineer. I wanted to be responsible and major in something pragmatic.
Ron Carlson
#58. I've never wanted to be a doctor, I've never wanted to be an engineer, I've never had that goal, but when you're around people who are successful, you kind of feel some type of way like, I don't want to be a doctor or lawyer but I do want to be successful.
Eric Thomas
#59. Ohio went on alert Tuesday when a train with hazardous chemicals ran wild through the state. A brave engineer leaped aboard and brought the runaway train under control. Sounds like we've found our next FBI Director.
Argus Hamilton
#60. Fred Vogelstein summed up iPhone's impact that day in his book Dogfight with a quote by Google engineer Chris DeSalvo: "We're going to have to start over.
Jacquie McNish
#61. You could engineer a human to survive the greenhouse effect because you think that's what's going to happen, and then all of a sudden the glaciers are creeping down on you.
Paul Di Filippo
#62. The desire to engineer humanity is a sign of a mind warped by megalomania and lust for power.
A.E. Samaan
#63. If it weren't for the people, the god-damn people' said Finnerty, 'always getting tangled up in the machinery. If it weren't for them, the world would be an engineer's paradise.
Kurt Vonnegut
#64. If You'r a Mechanical Engineer Don't Feel So Proud, Because You Can Repair Everything Except Your Own Heart"!!!
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
#65. I was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on June 15, 1916. My father, an electrical engineer, had come to the United States in 1903 after earning his engineering diploma at the Technische Hochschule of Darmstadt, Germany.
Herbert A. Simon
#66. The engineer who counts cost as nothing as compared to the result, who holds himself above the consideration of dollars and cents, has missed his vocation.
Coleman Sellers II
#67. Engineering -nature is engineering, so is culture, science is right behind, only chaos is not an engineer- and, along with it, the furious need to reproduce.
Elena Ferrante
#68. The mantra of any good security engineer is: 'Security is a not a product, but a process.' It's more than designing strong cryptography into a system; it's designing the entire system such that all security measures, including cryptography, work together.
Bruce Schneier
#69. In order to predict effectively, we need to use science. And the reason that we need to use science is because then we can reproduce what we're doing; it's not just wisdom or guesswork. And if we can predict, then we can engineer the future.
Bruce Bueno De Mesquita
#70. I was a good student with mathematical ability and interests. As such, I took the usual college preparatory program in high school for one looking to become an engineer: all the available courses in mathematics and science.
Dale T. Mortensen
#71. Control oil and you control money. That's how you become a dominant player in the new Great Game - the one that Putin has been playing so masterfully in his effort to engineer the demise of the dollar.
Marin Katusa
#72. Lord Uthe once said I wouldn't be the one at the head of the army, storming the castle. I'd be the engineer, tunneling beneath to bring the whole thing crashing down.
Anonymous
#73. When I was young I had an apprenticeship as an engineer.
Yves Rossy
#74. My dad was an engineer and so I had this picture of science and technology and pursuits of the mind as being more impressive than artistic pursuits, which I saw a as kind of frivolous.
Scott McCloud
#75. Life is the steam of the corporeal engine; the soul is the engineer who makes use of the steam-quickened engine.
Sara Coleridge
#76. The lesson has already been learned with alcohol prohibition. We tried to engineer an alcohol-free society and ended up with huge criminal enterprises, government corruption, children lured into organized crime and random violence that took the lives of countless innocent people.
Kurt Schmoke
#77. Why should a financial engineer be paid four, four times ... to a hundred times more than the, uh ... real engineer?
A real engineer build bridges, a financial engineer build, build dreams.
And when those dream turn out to be nightmares, other people pay for it.
Andrew Sheng
#78. Forelimbs of people, porpoises, bats and horses provide the classic example of homology in most textbooks. They look different, and do different things, but are built of the same bones. No engineer, starting from scratch each time, would have built such disparate structures from the same parts.
Stephen Jay Gould
#79. I farm - there is something visceral about being attached to the land. I am a recording engineer. I do my own laundry most days, and I get on with the business of living.
Sandra Lerner
#80. Getting shocked was a badge of honor for Woz. He prided himself on being a hardware engineer, which meant
Walter Isaacson
#81. [...] it would have been an affront to all good souls who had worked for a better world over the millennia not to engineer a system for preserving finer thoughts after the millennium arrived and all ideologies died and people became animals once more.
Douglas Coupland
#82. I initially wanted to be a teacher, and then I was going to become an engineer and build bridges and highways, but pretty soon I went into the business world. I never did get to be a teacher except in a different way.
Louis V. Gerstner Jr.
#83. The engineer performs many public functions from which he gets only philosophical satisfactions. Most people do not know it, but he is an economic and social force.
Herbert Hoover
#84. I do understand why a desperate engineer still use a hammer
to solve a hard problem. I think, that made him more humane.
Toba Beta
#85. Evolution is, as an engineer, an opportunist, not a perfectionist.
Stanislaw Lem
#86. I loved problems on paper, and I was good at math, but I was a mechanical engineer, and I never understood - or cared to - how a car worked.
Rabih Alameddine
#87. I know you engineer types are excellent with mathematics, much better than I ever will be, but I do know the difference between a tiny pail of coins and big bucket of dollars. How can I take the pail when I am worth the bucket?
Ken Goldstein
#88. There's always something that an engineer can do to make microscopes better.
Eric Betzig
#89. If you are a woman, you might feel torn between logical agreement and emotional resistance. Why? It seems like a simpler solution to blame men for the pay gap than to engineer your own bridge to higher pay.
Warren Farrell
#90. As the semantic engineer, your job is naming the parts and tightening nuts and bolts. I suggest you get back to your office and do that - right now!
John Sladek
#91. Watch with awe and amazement at how quickly an engineer will become totally annoyed by inefficiency.
Rands
#93. I am an ordinary woman who did extraordinary things. The first to qualify as a ground engineer. The first to fly to Australia single-handed. A million people lined the streets of London when I came home. I waved to them from an open-topped car like the queen, the queen of the air.
Kate Lord Brown
#94. I've always disliked words like inspiration. Writing is probably like a scientist thinking about some scientific problem, or an engineer about an engineering problem.
Doris Lessing
#96. Having a mother who had been an aeronautical engineer convinced me that more things should be open to women.
Elizabeth Moon
#97. I did not deliberately invent Earthsea, I did not think 'Hey wow - islands are archetypes and archipelagoes are superarchetypes and let's build us an archipelago! I am not an engineer, but an explorer. I discovered Earthsea.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#98. I'm an engineer and a writer. And I find that those two things are not uncomplementary.
Naomi Novik
#99. Complexity is not a goal. I don't want to be remembered as an engineer of complex systems.
David Parnas
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