Over Engineering Quotes

#1. Over-engineering can create products too complex to use.

Abhishek Ratna

#2. There are hundreds of miracles within a single machine. Americans calmly explain these with mathematical formulas. Our difficulty is to learn, theirs to appreciate.

Warren Eyster

#3. It doesn't help to just get women's opinions and then turn them over to an all-white-male engineering team.

Anita Borg

#4. The form a city assumes as it evolves over time owes more to large-scale works of civil engineering - what we now call infrastructure - than almost any other factor save topography.

Martin Filler

#5. The Romans spent the next 200 years using their great engineering skill to construct ruins all over Europe.

Dave Barry

#6. I still haven't heard anything from Apple about my hacks. There is a tool based on my work reverse-engineering Apple's FairPlay called jhymn that's been hosted on a U.S. server for over a year and nothing has happened.

Jon Johansen

#7. The same undisciplined government spending and social engineering that has undermined our economy over the past 30 years has also been tearing at the social fabric of this land.

Stockwell Day

#8. My dad owns a company that lends equipment to industrial projects. I've been obsessed with taking it over since I could talk. I'd follow him and repeat conversations about how many tons of cranes were arriving. He said it was a man's world, so I studied electrical engineering because it was related.

Ruchi Sanghvi

#9. Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.

Bill Gates

#10. Indeed, the ratio of time spent reading versus writing is well over 10 to 1. We are constantly reading old code as part of the effort to write new code. ...[Therefore,] making it easy to read makes it easier to write.

Robert C. Martin

#11. Sporting competitions seem to be what we obsess over, frankly. So if we can put engineering, science, technology into a format of healthy, fun competition, we can attract all sorts of kids that might not see the kind of activity we do as accessible or rewarding.

Dean Kamen

#12. Historically, the British have always been rather wary of grand engineering projects - perhaps understandably, given that many of them have been delivered late and over budget.

Evan Davis

#13. All we know about the new economic world tells us that nations which train engineers will prevail over those which train lawyers. No nation has ever sued its way to greatness.

Richard Lamm

#14. At 17, I went to Stanford University to study engineering. My time was occupied with the required reading and the extracurricular duties of managing the baseball and football teams and earning my way.

Herbert Hoover

#15. Engineers use knowledge primarily to design, produce, and operate artifacts ... Scientists, by contrast, use knowledge primarily to generate more knowledge.

Walter Guido Vincenti

#16. Today, over half of China's undergraduate degrees are in math, science technology and engineering, yet only 16 percent of America's undergraduates pursue these schools.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

#17. Let's face it: Engineering companies in general have more men than women. Google has tried really hard to recruit women. On the other hand, we have a standard. Google tries to recruit the best engineers.

Susan Wojcicki

#18. All the food we eat, whether Brussels sprouts or pork bellies, has been modified by mankind. Genetic engineering is only one particularly powerful way to do what we have been doing for eleven thousand years.

Michael Specter

#19. I used to be a chemical-engineering student, but I started studying acting, and I went for a cattle call, up against hundreds of people. They tore me down because I was too tall. They said "How tall are you?" "6'5"." "Next.

Dolph Lundgren

#20. 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

#21. My dad is from Panama; he came to the U.S. in 1971. He came to study chemical engineering at the University of Delaware. He thought he would go back, and then he met my mom here. I was born and mostly raised in Delaware.

Cristina Henriquez