Post here Engineering Quotes for Inspirations

[Steve Jobs]

Post here Engineering Quotes for Inspirations

You have been found guilty of indulging in unnatural practices under one of London’s most beautiful bridges.
– Judge reprimanding prisoner before sentence
Urban myth at the Bar

 

[Steve Jobs]

We shape our buildings, thereafter they shape us.
– Winston Churchill

 

[Steve Jobs]

When engineers and quantity surveyors discuss aesthetics and architects study what cranes do we are on the right road.
– Ove Arup

 

[Steve Jobs]

This is not the age of pamphleteers. It is the age of engineers. The spark-gap is mightier than the pen. Democracy will not be salvaged by men who talk fluently, debate forcefully and quote aptly.
– Lancelot Hogben

 

[Steve Jobs]

as for earthquakes, though they were still formidable, they were so interesting that men of science could hardly regret them.
– Bertrand Russell

 

[Steve Jobs]

Therefore O students study mathematics and do not build without foundations.
– Leonardo Da Vinci

 

[Steve Jobs]

There can be little doubt that in many ways the story of bridge building is the story of civilisation. By it we can readily measure an important part of a people’s progress.
– Franklin D Roosevelt

 

[Steve Jobs]

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong, it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.
– Douglas Adams

 

[Steve Jobs]

The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double logarithmic diagram.
– Thomas Koenig

 

[Steve Jobs]

Phases of a Project:
1 — Exultation
2 — Disenchantment
3 — Search for the Guilty
4 — Punishment of the Innocent
5 — Praise for the Uninvolved
– Anon

 

[Steve Jobs]

One has to watch out for engineers – they begin with the sewing machine and end up with the atomic bomb.
– Marcel Pagnol

 

[Steve Jobs]

Nothing is so inspiring as seeing big works well laid out and planned and a real engineering organisation.
– Frederick Handley Page

 

[Steve Jobs]

Nothing can be of great worth or holy which is the work of builders and mechanics.
– Zeno, Stoic Philosopher

 

[Steve Jobs]

Nor aught availed him now
To have built in heaven high towers; nor did he scape
By all his engines, but was headlong sent
With his industrious crew to build in hell.
– John Milton

 

[Steve Jobs]

No greater care is required upon any works than upon such as are to withstand the action of water; for this reason, all parts of the work need to be done exactly according to the rules of the art which all workmen know, but few observe.
– Sextus Julius Frontinus

 

[Steve Jobs]

Men build bridges and throw railroads across deserts, and yet they contend successfully that the job of sewing on a button is beyond them. Accordingly, they don’t have to sew buttons.
– Heywood Broun

 

[Steve Jobs]

Let him not be grasping nor have his mind preoccupied with … receiving perquisites, but let him with dignity keep up his position by establishing a good reputation. No work can be rightly done without honesty and incorruptibility.
– Vitruvius

 

[Steve Jobs]

It takes an engineer to undertake the training of an engineer and not, as often happens, a theoretical engineer who is clever on a blackboard with mathematical formulae but useless as far as production is concerned.
– The Rev EB Evans

 

[Steve Jobs]

In practical work he can be ingenious with regard to modifying apparatus; he uses engineering rather than imagination.
– Head Teacher’s reference for a student applying to University

 

[Steve Jobs]

Improvement makes strait roads: but the crooked roads without Improvement are roads of Genius.
– William Blake