Engineering Quotes

“I'm an engineer. I see myself as a toolmaker and the musicians are my customers. They use my tools.”

“It's a massive motor in a tiny, lightweight car.”

“The steam-hammer is a child of my own.”

“It was a pilot’s dream. It still is. I still think it’s one of the finest airplanes that’s ever been built.”

“The jet engine is a simple thing. It's just a lot of hot air.”

“Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.”

“The other thing that's characteristic of specifications is that they are awfully hard to get right, and they have to be mercilessly tested.”

“The Three Gorges project will be a monument to the Chinese people.”

“I am an enthusiast, but not a crank in the sense that I have some pet theories as to the proper construction of a flying machine.”

“One of the principal Causes of the Errors in common Pendulum-Clocks is the Irregularity of the Motion, which is transmitted through the Wheels.”

“Well, it was all down to chance that I became an engineer.”

“There is no secret to my management. I only sought to create a company where engineers can work with joy.”

“The fundamental problem of communication is that of reproducing at one point either exactly or approximately a message selected at another point.”

“We are not here to create a more just society. We are here to keep the trains running on time.”

“For the first time I was in command of a machine that was not on the verge of disintegration.”

“A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.”

“We were flying a winged vehicle. We had a lot more drag than the capsule boys did.”

“Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a quality that decides between success and failure.”

“The antenna is the most important part of a wireless system.”

“I would rather have been the builder of the aqueduct than to have been the author of the greatest epic poem ever written.”