Top 769 Engineer Quotes & Sayings - Page 4
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Last updated on November 15, 2024.
My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers. I only started the company when I realized I could be an engineer forever.
I only learned what an engineer was from a college guidance counselor. When she described it, a light clicked on in my head, and I said, 'Yes, that's what I want to do.'
Time pressure gradually corrupts an engineer's standard of quality and perfection. It has a detrimental effect on people as well as products
The human body was designed by a civil engineer. Who else would run a toxic waste pipeline through a recreational area ?
My parents were farmers' kids from South Dakota. My dad was an engineer. I wanted to be responsible and major in something pragmatic.
As an engineer by training, turning down the offer - getting to lead Ericsson, one of Sweden's greatest companies - is impossible.
I've been an engineer, barman, skip lorry driver, coalman, boat window manufacturer, contract grass cutter and builder.
I done became bigger swervin writin in my peer's lane. Same dudes that used to holla my engineer's name.
My brother is an electrical engineer and went to computer science grad school at Stanford, and he'd tell me stories about the happy hours he'd organize.
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.
My dad is an engineer and works on green energy, so I'm very aware of what it takes to keep a modern home running and how we can simplify.
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.
Every application has an inherent amount of irreducible complexity. The only question is who will have to deal with it, the user or the developer (programmer or engineer).
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.
When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.
I'm not an amazing engineer; I'm just super basic. I'm pretty cavalier about it - I stick the mic wherever it sounds good.
You have teenagers thinking they're going to make millions as NBA stars when that's not realistic for even 1 percent of them. Becoming a scientist or engineer is.
The worst thing in the world that can happen to you if you're an engineer that has given his life to something is for someone to rip it off and put their name to it.
Ive been an engineer, barman, skip lorry driver, coalman, boat window manufacturer, contract grass cutter and builder.
First rule of engineering; beware prototypes. Along with, avoid anything made by an engineer who doesn't have all his own fingers.
When I was a kid and I bought a record, I ripped that thing open, I wanted to know who was playing what, what studio it was cut at, who was the string arranger, who was the engineer.
I've spent a career working in tech as a software engineer. And I believe regulated markets are the best way to build and deliver innovative products.
I do not want to drive across a bridge designed by an engineer who believed the numbers in structural stress models are relative truths.
I came to America when I was six. In true African form, my parents wanted me to be a doctor or lawyer or engineer.
My training as an engineer has enabled me to design the stuff, but the reason I do it is not to make music but for the opportunity to work with musicians.
If one engineer at a startup tries Slack and says, 'I hate it. I am not going to use this,' that's it for us. We won't get evaluated.
I could have gone on to be an engineer full time, except that there was more demand for my playing. But the love of working the board never leaves you.
I wanted Jeev to become doctor or an engineer, but after seeing his talent and interest in golf, I dropped that idea.
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.
Einstein repeatedly argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer.
Having a mother who had been an aeronautical engineer convinced me that more things should be open to women.
This idea you're going to take a 50-year-old coal miner and turn them into a software engineer is ridiculous.
I've sort of decided that I can settle for being just the artist, arranger, writer and part-time engineer. That seems like enough to do.
In my opinion, as an engineer, a bridge is the most difficult thing you can do. You are not working in the direction of gravity but against it - so the problem opposes the solution.
The Swedish engineer who invented the zip fastener made a greater intellectual leap than many scientists do in a lifetime.
I worked as an engineer before going into ceramics, making insulators. It was my job, so I got it done. But I also had a lot of pride in myself.
My father was an engineer working for a textile company that had several factories scattered in rural towns in the southern part of Japan.
People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk.
I get called lots of things - a biochemist, a molecular biologist, a chemical engineer - and I guess I am all of those. I identify most as human!
I've gone down several paths. I started school as an engineer, but underneath it all, I knew I wanted to use instruments, not build them.
I wanted to become an engineer, or get a masters in business. But I had the opportunity to do films when I was about 25 and it was a great way to express myself.
Yes, though trained as an engineer, I shifted to education as I realized that the system needed to be changed; I saw so many of the bright minds caged.
I'm trying to break away from doing covers or from being considered only as a YouTube star. I'm a singer, songwriter, sound engineer, and producer.
I have always been driven by the ambition to solve every problem I face, whether as a scientist, engineer or entrepreneur.
It has been said that an engineer is a man who can do for ten shillings what any fool can do for a pound; if that be so, we were certainly engineers.
A good engineer thinks in reverse and asks himself about the stylistic consequences of the components and systems he proposes.
Parking's expensive, so I walk or ride my bike, which is good because my girlfriend's getting her PhD as an environmental engineer.
Deftly engineered. McCarthy challenges us all - not just engineers - to take responsibility for the ways in which we all increasingly engineer the world.
To be a good professional engineer, always start to study late for exams because it teaches you how to manage time and tackle emergencies.
An osteopath is only a human engineer, who should understand all the laws governing his engine and thereby master disease.
In our case, I, a working engineer, inventor and scientist, am bringing new innovation to campaigning to enable a grass-roots movement.
[S]tudies show that one of the best ways to lift your mood is to engineer an easy success, such as tackling a long-delayed chore.
I'm still an engineer at heart. So if I can automate conversations that I find myself keep having to have, it seems like a good opportunity for me.
The place where I hail from - a village in Gopalganj in North Bihar - people only know two professions: an engineer or a doctor.
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.
I got a degree in math, from not a good school in Texas, and then I went to work as a software engineer. Just not glamorous at all.
There is no short-cut to success. Whether you want to be an engineer, a charted accountant or a fashion model you must work hard.
A designer must always think about the unfortunate production engineer who will have to manufacture what you have designed; try to understand his problems.
However, the occasional visit of success provides just the excitement an engineer needs to face work the following day.
I grew up in the Seventies; my dad is an aeronautical engineer and my mum was an English and arts teacher and for a while my family had to exist on one salary.
