I Am An Engineer Quotes

#1. For me, while writing I am an engineer, so if I decide to change the format, I want to add a section, to move a section, reorganize the section, anything I want to do, I just boot words, and I do what I want to do. So, I feel completely empowered when I'm a writer.

Guy Kawasaki

#2. Don't make me out to be an artist. I am an engineer. I am after the facts, only the facts.

Harold Eugene Edgerton

#3. I am an engineer, but what I find important and necessary is that you just learn things as you go along.

Terrence Howard

#4. Chris is the engineer down at the studio where we do these things. And he's just such an integral part and he has such a marvelous ear. Also it turns out, we didn't know, but he's a pretty good fiddle player.

Guy Clark

#5. In the early days it was fun to fly. You could soar over rooftops and trees, or drop down to meet a passing train and wave at the engineer. The whole sky belonged to you. now there are so many regulations. The sky is crowded. All the fun is gone.

Katherine Stinson

#6. I think of myself as an engineer, not as a visionary or 'big thinker.' I don't have any lofty goals.

Linus Torvalds

#7. Particularly if you're a good engineer, there's a lot of ways you can make money, but to actually have an impact on the world is rare, and when you find an opportunity for that, it's very special.

Matt Mullenweg

#8. One effect of benefit-cost analysis is to give any respectable engineer or economist a means for justifying almost any kind of project the national government wants to justify ... Exclusive reliance on benefit-cost analysis has been one of the greatest threats to wise decisions in water development.

Gilbert F. White

#9. I was born in the small town of Gorizia, Italy, on 31 March, 1934. My father was an electrical engineer at the local telephone company and my mother an elementary school teacher.

Carlo Rubbia

#10. What my father gave me more than anything else is great tutoring and a great brain, frankly. You know, my father's brother was a top person at MIT, went to MIT, graduated from MIT, was a teacher at MIT, a professor at MIT, a great engineer. I mean, you know, I have very good genes.

Donald Trump

#11. I was the only child, and I know my father had certain thoughts about me. He was a lawyer and extremely literary, but he would have been much happier if I had wanted to be a lawyer, a scientist, an engineer. But what I wanted to do was read.

Robert Gottlieb

#12. We would not even need a statistician; a second-rate engineer would do.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#13. It is contrary to the usual practice of professional men to give their opinions upon each other's work unless regularly called upon in the way of their profession.

John Smeaton

#14. I was one of the first practitioners of social engineering as a hacking technique, and today it is my only tool of use, aside from a smartphone - in a purely white hat sort of way. But if you don't trust me, then ask any reasonably competent social engineer.

John McAfee

#15. I want to be a writer, not an engineer who writes books.

Paulo Coelho

#16. My father worked for governments all his life as an engineer and public works director.

Edward Tufte

#17. I've recorded myself for four or five years and have been doing lots of experiments. I'm not that good an engineer - so it always becomes a different song - but I have ideas.

Gustav Ejstes

#18. My father was an engineer and my mother was a social worker, and they met as young socialists. That probably tells you everything you need to know about my attitude to money - I've never really been bothered about it.

Jo Brand

#19. As the son of a racing car designer and mechanical engineer, I was exposed to motorsports from day one.

Charlie Kimball

#20. I put a lot of weight on feelings and am weirdly in touch with them, which is not typical for an engineer.

Luis Von Ahn

#21. I am not optimistic or pessimistic. I feel that optimism and pessimism are very unbalanced. I am a very hard engineer. I am a mechanic. I am a sailor. I am an air pilot. I don't tell people I can get you across the ocean with my ship unless I know what I'm talking about.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#22. I never claimed to be a computer engineer, but I did train as an industrial designer, and I am a consumer marketer, and I am very comfortable dealing with complex businesses and complexity in general and simplifying it - basically a systems designer.

John Sculley

#23. We are two brothers: I am a doctor; my brother is an engineer.

Bassem Youssef

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. I am not a visionary. I'm an engineer. I'm happy with the people who are wandering around looking at the stars but I am looking at the ground and I want to fix the pothole before I fall in.

Linus Torvalds

#28. If you asked every engineer at NASA what the worst scenario for the Hab was, they'd all answer "fire." If you asked them what the result would be, they'd answer "death by fire." But

Andy Weir

#29. If truth prevails, the contributions of a courageous physician and a brilliant engineer to the conquest of waterborne disease will still be remembered in another hundred years.

Michael J. McGuire

#30. When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.

Herbert Hoover

#31. If I had one singular galvanizing ambition in life, I would try to reverse engineer toward it, but I don't.

Chelsea Clinton

#32. The writer is the engineer of the human soul.

Joseph Stalin

#33. And knowing my luck ... that'll be the Engineer sign for Your mom's a skank.

Karen Traviss

#34. My first jobs after graduation in 1955 were as a project engineer for G.E. and later with the U.S. government in Washington, D.C., where I met and married my wife, Dolores Celini.

Oliver E. Williamson

#35. My background is in physics, so I was the mission specialist, who is sort of like the flight engineer on an airplane.

Sally Ride

#36. I find it amusing that those who helped to authorize and engineer the biggest foreign policy disaster in our generation are now criticizing me for making sure that we are on the right battlefield and not the wrong battlefield in the war against terrorism.

Barack Obama

#37. If vampires were a separate species, and they were into genetic engineering, what would they engineer for?

Octavia E. Butler

#38. People wanted me to do a CD-ROM of 'Hitchhiker's,' and I thought, 'No, no.' I didn't want to just sort of reverse-engineer yet another thing from a book I'd already written. I think that the digital media are interesting enough in their own right to be worth originating something in.

Douglas Adams

#39. I was Google's first woman engineer.

Marissa Mayer

#40. I've been an engineer, barman, skip lorry driver, coalman, boat window manufacturer, contract grass cutter and builder.

Neal Asher

#41. How in the fucking hell did you do that?"

Calyph shrugged. "I'm an Engineer," he said simply, as if it would explain everything.

April Adams

#42. I've been a software engineer, a novelist, a journalist, and a manager - and managing developers is easily the trickiest thing I've ever done.

Jon Evans

#43. Women are very different to men, and that hasn't been respected. So when people say there's never been a good woman painter or poet or engineer or whatever, they don't understand that our skills are many simultaneously and men's skills are single.

Joanna Lumley

#44. Any good software engineer will tell you that a compiler and an interpreter are interchangeable.

Tim Berners-Lee

#45. I have always thought of myself as an inventor first and foremost. An engineer. An entrepreneur. In that order. I never thought of myself as an employee. But my first jobs as an adult were as an employee: at IBM, and then at my first start-up.

Aaron Patzer

#46. I actually studied engineering in school - I have a degree in mechanical engineering. But, when I got out of school, instead of going to work as an engineer, I was in a band.

Mark Frauenfelder

#47. As Earl Lautenslager writes, "A minister without theology is like an engineer without physics or a doctor without anatomy. He'll kill you."[

Michael S. Horton

#48. I still feel that in India we look upon sports as a recreational activity - which it is - but people have to understand that there is a career in sports. It's not just necessary to be a doctor or a lawyer or an engineer, as most of us Indians appear to think that our children should grow up to be.

Abhishek Bachchan

#49. I'm a mechanical engineer, and I grew up on a farm, so I like practical hardware - somebody's elegant solution that proves itself over the long term.

Chris Hadfield

#50. From here, it becomes an engineering problem; the engineer considers the ground motion that will occur and evaluates the requirements of the proposed structure in the light of the local foundation conditions.

Charles Francis Richter

#51. Parking's expensive, so I walk or ride my bike, which is good because my girlfriend's getting her PhD as an environmental engineer.

Chaz Bundick

#52. A good businessman knows how to make a profit. An engineer makes sure it runs well. We need more leaders who are task oriented.

Phil Mitchell