Engineer Quotes

Some people will say that a respect for regulations is essential and that engineers need not check the hypotheses on which they are based. This is a convenient theory, but a false one. Men who draw up regulations can be wrong like other men.

Eugène Freyssinet

To ordinary minds all creation is mystery; to cultivated minds there is much that is not quite inexplicable.

Modern science constitutes a method for understanding and modifying the world but has no inherent direction, whereas modern religion describes a messianic world view but lacks a useful method to bring about this state of affairs.

Frederick Grinnell

Work is the universal topic; the weather is too serious a subject to chatter about lightly.

Francis Hopkinson Smith

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

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

This leap into, "Somebody is going to produce a superhuman intelligence, and then there's going to be all these ethical issues" is unwarranted and borderline irresponsible. I'm definitely not worried about the AI apocalypse.

John Giannandrea