Post here Engineering Quotes for Inspirations

[Steve Jobs]

I am an old man now, and when I die and go to Heaven there are two matters on which I hope for enlightenment. One is quantum electrodynamics and the other is the turbulent motion of fluids. And about the former I am rather more optimistic.
– Sir Horace Lamb

 

[Steve Jobs]

His father loved him dearly, but his work, that of a civil engineer, had left him with but little time for his family. Energetic, active, and always taken up with some responsible work, he did not spoil his children with excessive tenderness.
– Mme Estafavia

 

[Steve Jobs]

He was living like an engineer in a mechanical world. No wonder he had become dry as a stone.
– Simone de Beauvoir

 

[Steve Jobs]

He … insists that no mathematical formula, however exact it may appear to be, can be of greater accuracy than the assumptions on which it is based, and he draws the conclusion that experience still remains the great teacher and final judge.
– James Kip Finch

 

[Steve Jobs]

Go for civil engineering, because civil engineering is the branch of engineering which teaches you the most about managing people. Managing people is a skill which is very, very useful and applies almost regardless of what you do.
– Sir John Harvey Jones

 

[Steve Jobs]

From the laying out of a line of a tunnel to its final completion, the work may be either a series of experiments made at the expense of the proprietors of the project, or a series of judicious applications of the results of previous experience.
– HS Drinker

 

[Steve Jobs]

Experience serves not only to confirm theory, but differs from it without disturbing it, it leads to new truths which theory only has not been able to reach.
– Dalembert

 

[Steve Jobs]

Engineers … are not superhuman. They make mistakes in their assumptions, in their calculations, in their conclusions. That they make mistakes is forgivable; that they catch them is imperative. Thus it is the essence of modern engineering not only to be able to check one’s own work but also to have one’s work checked and to be able to check the work of others.
– Henry Petroski

 

[Steve Jobs]

Engineers … are not mere technicians and should not approve or lend their name to any project that does not promise to be beneficent to man and the advancement of civilization
– John Fowler

 

[Steve Jobs]

Engineering refers to the practice of organizing the design and construction [and, I would add operation] of any artifice which transforms the physical world around us to meet some recognized need.
– GFC Rogers

 

[Steve Jobs]

Engineering problems are under-defined, there are many solutions, good, bad and indifferent. The art is to arrive at a good solution. This is a creative activity, involving imagination, intuition and deliberate choice.
– Ove Arup

 

[Steve Jobs]

Engineering is the art of modelling materials we do not wholly understand, into shapes we cannot precisely analyse so as to withstand forces we cannot properly assess, in such a way that the public has no reason to suspect the extent of our ignorance.
– Dr AR Dykes

 

[Steve Jobs]

A theory may be so rich in descriptive possibilities that it can be made to fit any data.
– Phillip Johnson-Laird

 

[Steve Jobs]

Architects and engineers are among the most fortunate of men since they build their own monuments with public consent, public approval and often public money.
– John Prebble

 

[Steve Jobs]

An engineer is someone who is good with figures, but doesn’t have the personality of an accountant.
– An Arts graduate’s view of engineers

 

[Steve Jobs]

A great bridge is a great monument which should serve to make known the splendour and genius of a nation; one should not occupy oneself with efforts to perfect it architecturally, for taste is always susceptible to change, but to conserve always in its form and decoration the character of solidity which is proper.
– Jean Peronnet

 

[Steve Jobs]

A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible
– Freeman Dyson

 

[Steve Jobs]

Aeroplanes are not designed by science, but by art in spite of some pretence and humbug to the contrary. I do not mean to suggest that engineering can do without science, on the contrary, it stands on scientific foundations, but there is a big gap between scientific research and the engineering product which has to be bridged by the art of the engineer.
– British Engineer to the Royal Aeronautical Society, 1922.

 

[Steve Jobs]

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
– Douglas Adams

 

[Steve Jobs]

'The road to success is always under construction'
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