Engineering Quotes

“The last 10 percent of performance generates one-third of the cost and two-thirds of the problems.”

“The perfect race car crosses the finish line in first place and subsequently falls into its component parts.”

“I am but a small hardware man.”

“A racing car is an animal with a thousand adjustments.”

“The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.”

“The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular explanation of those terms, to limit very strictly their popular acceptation.”

“I'm not a musician. I'm a craftsman.”

“My object has not been to make a beautiful machine, but a thoroughly practical one.”

“When I was a schoolboy, I was interested in building machines. I was not interested in mathematics.”

“The glass is neither half-empty nor half-full. It's simply twice as big as it needs to be.”

“Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do.”

“There it is. Take it.”

“These semantic aspects of communication are irrelevant to the engineering problem.”

“Adaptation is a masterpiece of piecemeal engineering.”

“The secret to building large apps is 'Don't do it.' Instead, build components.”

“Just as a program must be debugged, a specification must be validated.”

“Among the many mechanical contrivances which I have had the good fortune to bring to a successful issue, there is none which has given me so much pleasure as my steam-hammer.”

“If you can observe a phenomenon, you can start to understand it, and you can start to engineer it.”

“The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.”

“If something is easy to repair, it is easy to build.”