American Engineer Quotes

Henry Ford

Wernher von Braun

George B. McClellan

Vannevar Bush

Frederick Winslow Taylor

Robert Fulton

Douglas Engelbart

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.

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.

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

For the most part, these are not new lessons, but lessons learned in different circumstances and surroundings. The fact that they are not new is of course a lesson in itself — we must continually strive to benefit from past experiences and structure our management so that past related experience can be brought to bear on current problems.

Psychopaths know intellectually what is immoral they just don't have a feeling of immorality about it.

The binders, the charts, the grids may seem formidable, but the meetings themselves are built around informality, trust, emotion and humor.

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

Allen B. Rosenstein

You can drink pickle juice and imitate gorillas and do silly dances and sing stupid songs and wear funny hats and be as imperfect as you please and still be a good person. Good people are hard to find nowadays. And they're a lot more fun than perfect people any day of the week.

The Engineer is one who, in the world of physics and applied sciences, begets new things, or adapts old things to new and better uses; above all, one who, in that field, attains new results in the best way and at lowest cost.

Somebody once said, 'He's never wrong about the future, but he does tend to be wrong about how long it takes.

The principles governing the behavior of systems are not widely understood.

Jay Wright Forrester

The things which concerned him more than anything else were the what and the why—the what because he felt it was necessary to know absolutely what you were questioning and what you were doing or what concerned you, and then the why, the depth type of thinking which showed you the reason for doing the thing and would perhaps indicate clearly whether you should maintain what was being done or should change what was being done.

Lillian Moller Gilbreth

Sermons are not always preached from pulpits. They are written in the rocks and on the flowers of the field and the trees of the forest.

Nuclear fusion of light elements like hydrogen or helium would permit approaching the speed of light. It seems very attractive to refuel your space ships where the fuel is.

Wilson Greatbatch

Looking back to data, we can see if the consequences are plausible; looking forward to theory, we can see if general principles are suggested.

John Henry Holland

To be an effective leader, you have to have a manipulative streak - you have to figure out the people working for you and give each tasks that will take advantage of his strength.

Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr.

Socrates was a philosopher. He went around pointing out errors in the way things were done. They fed him hemlock.

When you do dome up with a solution, you can always explain it logically, even though it's the absurd approach that gave you the solution.

Arthur Jay Klinghoffer, a professor of political science at Rutgers University, has argued that geography seems less relevant than ever in a world where nonstate actors -- malleable entities like ethnicities, for example -- are as powerful and important as the ones with governments and borders. Where on a map can you point to al-Qaeda? Or Google, or Wal-Mart? Everywhere and nowhere.

Engineering is superficial only to those who view it superficially. At the heart of engineering lies existential joy.

Samuel C. Florman

To define it rudely but not inaptly, [engineering] is the art of doing that well with one dollar which any bungler can do with two after a fashion.

Arthur M. Wellington

The increase of this efficiency is essentially the problem of the manager, and the amount to which it can be increased by proper study is, in most cases, so great as to be almost incredible.

A cottonwood leaf beetle scuttled out of the loosened earth, frantic legs working the sandy dirt, orange and black body desperate for a new hiding place. The sunset was fading, and a bloated ocher moon pushed its way into the dark blue sky.

Unless you are very rich and very eccentric, you will not enjoy the luxury of a computer in your own home.