Engineering Quotes

Any job I do-if it doesn’t work, somebody pays. Possibly hundreds or thousands of somebodies. That’s the price of good engineering; nobody notices you did your job right.

Charles Stross
- Good
- Work
- Job
With the advent of genetic engineering the time required for the evolution of new species may literally collapse.

Dee Hock
- Time
- May
- Engineering

I think a craft becomes an art form when the space of possible solutions becomes so huge that engineering can't carry you through.

Bill Budge
- Art
- Space
- Engineering
Nonetheless, the research budgets of the Department of Defense are under enormous stress-and they are extremely important because they support more than 40 percent of all federal funding for engineering schools across the country. So the threat was and is real.

Charles Vest
- Important
- Country
- Real
Protein engineering is a technology of molecular machines - of molecular machines that are part of replicators - and so it comes from an area that already raises some of the issues that nanotechnology will raise.

K. Eric Drexler
- Technology
- Engineering
Leonardo Da Vinci combined art and science and aesthetics and engineering, that kind of unity is needed once again.

Ben Shneiderman
- Art
- Science
- Unity
USNA had a great engineering school, which was one of my interests, and I knew I would benefit from the great discipline and accountability that Navy provides.

David Robinson The Cars
- Great
- School
- Discipline
As a kid, I was less interested in the physical tinkering than thinking about what we would now call the physics, as opposed to the engineering.

Dean Kamen
- Thinking
- Engineering