Engineering Quotes

"California is an easy place to be an Asian woman engineer."

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled."

Richard Feynman

"Scientists study the world as it is; engineers create the world that has never been."

Theodore von Kármán

"Engineering is the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man."

Thomas Tredgold

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

“Normal people believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet.”

Scott Adams

“Architecture begins where engineering ends.”

Walter Gropius

“Don't fight forces, use them.”

R. Buckminster Fuller

“A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible.”

Freeman Dyson

“My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers.”

Steve Wozniak

“Anyone can build a fast CPU. The trick is to build a fast system.”

Seymour Cray