Engineers Quotes

Below you can view all the Famous quotes about Engineers

“”Engineering is the application of science to the common purpose of life” — Count Rumford – Engineers quotes

“A scientist can discover a new star but he cannot make one.” — Gordon L. Glegg

“An engineer makes a $500 item with $50 worth of parts. A designer then adds $450 worth of crap” — Anonymous

“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life” — Confucius

For women in engineering: The odds are good, but the goods are sure odd.

“Engineering is not merely knowing and being knowledgeable, like a walking encyclopedia; engineering is not merely analysis; engineering is not merely the possession of the capacity to get elegant solutions to nonexistent engineering problems; engineering is practicing the art of the organized forcing of technological change… Engineers operate at the interface between science and society” — Dean Gordon Brown (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1962))

“Engineering is the application of science to the common purpose of life” — Theodore Von Karman

“If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?” — Albert Einstein

Most times your computer is not responding as you expected – first try to find out if the “ERROR” is not sitting right next to the computer. – Thomas Baehr

“The ideal engineer is a composite … He is not a scientist, he is not a mathematician, he is not a sociologist or a writer; but he may use the knowledge and techniques of any or all of these disciplines in solving engineering problems” — N. W. Dougherty

“To make contributions of this kind the engineer requires the imagination to visualize the needs of society and to appreciate what is possible as well as the technological and broad social-age understanding to bring his vision to reality” — Sir Eric Ashby

“You aren’t a real engineer until you make one $50000 mistake” — Unknown