Engineer Quotes

Henry Ford

Alfred Nobel

James Watt

Linus Torvalds

Charles Babbage

Douglas MacArthur

Wernher von Braun

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!.

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

Henry J. Kaiser

The only way to make it clear to him that he should not come here to our lists in the future, is to teach him a hard lesson, and that is done by continually re-adding cc's back to him — because the mails talk about him — even when his friends come our mailing lists and delete the his address from the cc list. Like this message, which adds him back in. Richard, you are a lying cheating hypocrite.

There can be no absolute reality, there can be no absolute truth.

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

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

When education and resources are available to all without a price tag, there will be no limit to the human potential.

In every crisis, if you look carefully, you will spot an opportunity. My insistence is on finding and seizing that opportunity. I never try to side-step a crisis. Rather, the more monstrous the crises, the more I am tempted to rush at it, grasp it by the horns and man-oeuvre it until it gives me what I want

Verghese Kurien

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

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.

The wonderful thing about dynamic typing is it lets you express anything that is computable. And type systems don't — type systems are typically decidable, and they restrict you to a subset. People who favor static type systems say it's fine, it's good enough; all the interesting programs you want to write will work as types. But that's ridiculous — once you have a type system, you don't even know what interesting programs are there.

"Ha! Boulton," said the king. "It is long since we have seen you at court. Pray, what business are you now engaged in?" "I am engaged, your Majesty, in the production of a commodity which is the desire of kings." "And what is that? What is that?" "POWER, your majesty!"

Matthew Boulton

The modern engineer's primary concern should be that of designing and creating the things that society needs, and the spark of genius must be nurtured and developed to the maximum extent.

Eric A. Walker (engineer)

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.

Factories today are being run less and less by the authority of experience only, and more and more by the authority of figures and facts. The superintendent and manager of long experience and intuitive knowledge only is forced to make room for the younger man, of less experience, perhaps, but who modernizes his work by the jurisdiction of figures alone.

Clinton Edgar Woods

Each new discovery leaves in the brains of men seeds which make it possible for an ever-increasing number of minds of new generations to embrace even greater scientific concepts.

It is not given to our weak intellects to understand the steps of Providence as they occur: we comprehend them only as we look back upon them in the far-distant past.

George B. McClellan

Mark Twain had it backwards. Nowadays everybody is doing something about the weather, but nobody is talking about it.

Stephen Schneider

To his son, Ferry Porsche, after carefully inspecting the design sketches for the Cisitalia racing car developed by Ferry:

I would have approached it exactly the way
you did!

Ferdinand Porsche

This decade holds many changes for the United States, but the greatest needs regarding America's productivity in the 1990s, are better education and employee training.

Gregory Balestrero

A normal chap, a man who likes creating things. A good worker in the morning, and a man who likes enjoying himself in the afternoon.

Ferruccio Lamborghini

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

Managers' typical response to my argument about free time is, 'That's all well and good, but there are things I have to do.' Yet we waste so much time in unproductive activity—it takes an enormous effort on the part of the leader to keep free time for the truly important things.