American Engineer Quotes

Henry Ford

Wernher von Braun

George B. McClellan

Vannevar Bush

Frederick Winslow Taylor

Robert Fulton

Douglas Engelbart

Progress is not made by pulling off a series of stunts. Each step has to be regulated. A man cannot expect to progress without thinking.

Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition — in having to put forth the best within you.

Henry J. Kaiser

You can be good at technology and like fashion and art. You can be good at technology and be a jock. You can be good at technology and be a mom. You can do it your way, on your terms.

Marketing is far too important to be left only to the marketing department!.

Enterprise Engineering is defined as that body of knowledge, principles, and practices having to do with the analysis, design, implementation and operation of an enterprise. In a continually changing and unpredictable competitive environment, the Enterprise Engineer addresses a fundamental question: how to design and improve all elements associated with the total enterprise through the use of engineering and analysis methods and tools to more effectively achieve its goals and objectives...

Donald H. Liles

By long-standing tradition, I take this opportunity to savage other
designers in the thin disguise of good, clean fun.

One advantage of static factory methods is that, unlike constructors, they have names.

I talk to myself through the computer. I ask myself questions, leave things to be looked at again, things that you would do with a notepad. It turns out today that it's much better today to do with a personal computer rather than a notepad.

When Commodore acquired Amiga in 1984, the legion of Amiga loyalists thought the world would beat a path to the better-mousetrap door. It didn't happen. The Amiga languished.

Like concepts such as national energy policy or war on drugs, competitiveness covers a lot of territory

Allen B. Rosenstein

Java development without a little heresy would be a dull place, and a dangerous one.

Cut the ending. Revise the script. The man of her dreams is a girl.

Julie Anne Peters

Analogies are useful for analysis in unexplored fields. By means of analogies an unfamiliar system may be compared with one that is better known. The relations and actions are more easily visualized, the mathematics more readily applied, and the analytical solutions more readily obtained in the familiar system.

Absolute authority will be delegated. Full responsibility will be assumed. Those who succeed will receive advancement and satisfaction of desire. Those who fail will die.

To pursue science is not to disparage the things of the spirit. In fact, to pursue science rightly is to furnish a framework on which the spirit may rise.

Some of the biggest changes have been in the process of generating business strategies—what I call strategy work. Around 1980, the received wisdom was to decentralize into business units, which would each generate a strategic plan. These plans were then amalgamated up the hierarchy, in some portfolio way, for senior management. That approach has all but disappeared, and we've seen a dramatic recentralization of strategy work.

Playing catch-up with the competition can only ever help you make incremental gains. It will never help you create something new.

The data must be explained by the evolutionist, but they are predicted by the creationist.

Henry M. Morris

… as the world rapidly becomes a civilization of machines, the masters of machines will increasingly be the ones in control of the world.

John Howard Dellinger

Great inventions are never, and great discoveries are seldom, the work of any one mind. Every great invention is really an aggregation of minor inventions, or the final step of a progression. It is not usually a creation, but a growth, as truly so as is the growth of the trees in the forest.

Robert Henry Thurston

The manufacturer of chemicals has all the griefs of a maker of shoes, or bolts and nuts, or ready-to-wear clothes, and has just one more grief in addition — i.e., troubles occurring in chemical transformations.

While there is a reasonable possibility that a peacetime armed force could be entirely voluntary, I am certain that an armed force involved in a major conflict could not be voluntary

Crawford Greenewalt

Even if a company maybe makes a promise and says, "Well, hey, look, we're not going to do anything with the data." You have no way to verify that.

Explaining why Apple will allow inspection of its AI server software

Craig Federighi

Staff standards are not theological abstractions, but scientific approximations, and are evolved for the use of the line, the sole justification of the standards being that they will make line work more efficient. Staff standards being for the benefit of the line and often entrusted to line officials, must be put in the form of permanent instructions so that all may understand what is being aimed at, and deviations by the line be noted and reprimanded.

Harrington Emerson

We are all expressions of our own minds, projected onto the world.

Daniel H. Wilson