Quotes About Engineering Design

#1. My father was a master carpenter and builder. Architectural design, engineering design, mechanical design, three-dimensional views, that was my shtick, my forte.

Bobby Seale

#2. 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

#3. Being the first mid-size SUV for the brand, Dodge Nitro had to personify the bold, powerful and street-smart attitude of Dodge. In a world of mostly bland SUVs, the 2007 Dodge Nitro has the design, engineering and performance to inspire consumers and ignite the mid-size SUV market.

George Murphy

#4. I employ case studies of failure into my courses, emphasizing that they teach us much more than studies of success. It is not that success stories cannot serve as models of good design or as exemplars of creative engineering. They can do that, but they cannot teach us how close to failure they are.

Henry Petroski

#5. Man cannot help but transcend himself as soon as he begins to design and construct.

Samuel Florman

#6. When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.

William Gibson

#7. The aim of human rights, if I may borrow a term from engineering, is to move beyond the design and drawing-board phase, to move beyond thinking and talking about the foundations stones - to laying those foundation stones, inch by inch, together.

Mary Robinson

#8. Building on our successful partnership, we can now bring together the best of Microsoft's software engineering with the best of Nokia's product engineering, award-winning design, and global sales, marketing and manufacturing,

Stephen Elop

#9. The trick to having good ideas is not to sit around in glorious isolation and try to think big thoughts. The trick is to get more parts on the table.

Steven Johnson

#10. What I'm trying to do is bring certain of those engineering values into the design process, such that when you think about form you're already incorporating those performance criteria in the process of the generation of forms.

Neri Oxman

#11. Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it.

James Dyson

#12. Software architecture is the set of design decisions which, if made incorrectly, may cause your project to be cancelled.

Eoin Woods

#13. British innovation in design, in the creative arts, in engineering and manufacturing is world class.

Margaret Heffernan

#14. So I went for engineering, specifically product design, which I enjoyed.

Debi Thomas

#15. 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

#16. The path to the CEO's office should not be through the CFO's office, and it should not be through the marketing department. It needs to be through engineering and design.

Elon Musk

#17. Art and design are not luxuries, nor somehow incompatible with science and engineering,

Bran Ferren

#18. Conjugation of the irregular verb "to design":
I create,
You interfere,
He gets in the way.
We cooperate,
You obstruct,
They conspire.

David K. Brown

#19. I'm not into politics but I am committed to a cause: ensuring design technology and engineering stays on the U.K. curriculum, alongside science and maths - grounding abstract theory, merging the practical with the academic.

James Dyson

#20. What is commonly overlooked in using the computer is the fact that the central goal of design is still to obviate failure, and thus it is critical to identify exactly how a structure may fail. The computer cannot do this by itself ...

Henry Petroski

#21. I was attracted to things that combined art and science equally. I've always been equally interested in art design, science and engineering.

Bran Ferren

#22. The theory of mechanism design can be thought of as the 'engineering' side of economic theory.

Eric Maskin

#23. The advance of genetic engineering makes it quite conceivable that we will begin to design our own evolutionary progress.

Isaac Asimov

#24. Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design.

Herbert Simon

#25. The central activity of engineering, as distinguished from science, is the design of new devices, processes and systems.

Myron Tribus

#26. At Stanford, we teach 'design thinking' - that is, we put together small, interdisciplinary groups to figure out what the true needs are and then to apply the art of engineering to serve them.

Hasso Plattner

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

Walter Guido Vincenti

#28. Truth can only be found in one place: the code.

Robert C. Martin

#29. Proper accounting is like engineering. You need a margin of safety. Thank God we don't design bridges and airplanes the way we do accounting.

Charlie Munger

#30. I am going to design ... a Station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc.

Isambard K. Brunel

#31. In order to fix it, you need a passionate anger about something that doesn't work well.

James Dyson

#32. Pools have their own uniqueness, design and engineering to depict culture, history or innovation.

Troy Dumais

#33. The problem is that when many products are produced, the majority of time and effort go into the engineering phase and not into the design phase. Object-oriented

Matt Weisfeld

#34. Nuclear weapons need large facilities, but genetic engineering can be done in a small lab. You can't regulate every lab in the world. The danger is that either by accident or design, we create a virus that destroys us.

Stephen Hawking

#35. Economic engineering is about the design and analysis of frameworks for achieving specific economic objectives.

Ben Bernanke

#36. Having a good idea is one thing, but persuading other people to buy it is quite another. Good inventors are polymaths: they think with their hands and their brains. They're experts in design, engineering and business.

James Dyson

#37. It is exciting to discover electrons and figure out the equations that govern their movement; it is boring to use those principles to design electric can openers. From here on out, it's all can openers.

Neal Stephenson

#38. I do quite like Gehry's Guggenheim. But where in Bilbao it's seen as an outgrowth of years of investment in urban design and engineering, in Britain it's seen as the catalyst for urban regeneration rather than the icing on the cake.

David Chipperfield

#39. There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy.

John Baldacci