#Engineering Quotes

“Recession doesn't deserve the right to exist. There are just too many things to be done in science and engineering to be bogged down by temporary economic dislocations.”

“Problems in human engineering will receive during the coming years the same genius and attention which the nineteenth century gave to the more material forms of engineering.We have laid good foundations for industrial prosperity, now we want to assure the happiness and growth of the workers through vocational education, vocational guidance, and wisely managed employment departments. A great field for industrial experimentation and statemanship is opening up.”

“Great engineers are a huge multiplier.”

“Instrumental or mechanical science is the noblest and above all others, the most useful.”

“A bird is an instrument working according to mathematical law, which instrument it is within the capacity of man to reproduce with all its movements.”

“A bird is an instrument working according to mathematical law, which instrument it is within the capacity of man to reproduce with all its movements, but not with a corresponding degree of strength, though it is deficient only in the power of maintaining equilibrium. We may therefore say that such an instrument constructed by man is lacking in nothing except the life of the bird, and this life must needs be supplied from that of man.”

“Engineering is not only study of 45 subjects but it is moral studies of intellectual life. Make things as simple as possible..but not simpler.”

“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.”

“I usually describe myself as an engineer; that's basically what I've been doing since I was a kid.”

“I don't spend my time pontificating about high-concept things; I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems.”

“My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment - my father is an electromechanical engineer. And so there were lots of engineery things around me.”

“Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.”

“Most of our competitors were one-product wonders... They would do their one product, but never get their engineering sorted out.”