Engineers Quotations

It's not an accident that musicians become musicians and engineers become engineers: it's what they're born to do. If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.

I've got a great team of engineers behind this race car. I've got a great bunch of mechanics that make it reliable. This car is developed to go out there and be better than the Reynard, and I feel that it is.

Beaver do better work than the Corps of Engineers.

I'm just attracted to the action element of science fiction. It's great to sit in the editing room with the director and sound engineers and to create the feeling where your heart is racing and you're sitting at the edge of your seat and you find yourself holding your breath.

I found that so many people in the music business started out as metalheads in the Eighties - whether they're songwriters, producers, engineers or executives, and no matter what they look like, with short hair, suits or whatever. I feel like my generation of metal kids really tends to populate the music world to a large extent.

Ultimately Halcyon needs the greatest scientists and engineers in the world to succeed in its mission.

As you may know, I am a mechanical engineer.

There are now hundreds of thousands of new engineers that are being trained in China. If people start finding themselves losing their jobs, not to the Chinese here but because China has become such a dominant force-then there could very well be a backlash.

I am an engineer, but what I find important and necessary is that you just learn things as you go along.

Most of the work performed by a development engineer results in failure.

The writer is the engineer of the human soul.

The Yankees, the first mechanicians in the world, are engineers - just as the Italians are musicians and the Germans metaphysicians - by right of birth. Nothing is more natural, therefore, than to perceive them applying their audacious ingenuity to the science of gunnery.

It has been said, by engineers themselves, that given enough money, they can accomplish virtually anything: send men to the moon, dig a tunnel under the English Channel. There's no reason they couldn't likewise devise ways to protect infrastructure from the worst hurricanes, earthquakes and other calamities, natural and manmade.

Failure is Central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation.

When screening engineers from other companies, its smart to value engineers from great companies more than those from mediocre companies.

Corporate engineers have looked at how women are with each other, borrowing the best tips from female neighborhood culture and then transporting them back into the bosom of capitalism. They've feminized capitalism.

Because they are so humbled by their creations, engineers are naturally conservative in their expectations of technology. They know that the perfect system is the stuff of science fiction, not of engineering fact, and so everything must be treated with respect.

When you have a group of engineers and designers, they are not exactly the best to deal with copyright law.

Without there being some national strategy, it is difficult for educators to know what kinds of engineers or technicians to produce and for potential students to know what professions to study for.

My first book, 'To Engineer Is Human,' was prompted by nonengineer friends asking me why so many technological accidents and failures were occurring. If engineers knew what they were doing, why did bridges and buildings fall down? It was a question that I had often asked myself, and I had no easy answer.

Any good software engineer will tell you that a compiler and an interpreter are interchangeable.

A common misconception about how things such as space shuttles come to be is that engineers simply apply the theories and equations of science. But this cannot be done until the new thing-to-be is conceived in the engineer's mind's eye. Rather than following from science, engineered things lead it.

Although engineers want always to make everything better, they cannot make anything perfect. This basic characteristic flaw of the products of the profession's practitioners is what drives change and makes achievement a process rather than simply a goal.

Unless engineers can stop southern Louisiana from sinking into the Gulf - the Mississippi Delta is the fastest-disappearing land on the planet - even post-Katrina's modernized levees will be overwhelmed.

There is no need for non-combat engineers to help out in the reconstruction process.

Whether they are computer technology consultants, network engineers or intelligent analysts, contractors play a vital role in securing our nation. Therefore, it's imperative that we improve this process because, in today's job market, it's unrealistic to assume that the best and brightest applicants are going to wait more than one year to receive a government clearance so they can then begin their jobs.

world-class scientists and engineers and surround them with the creative environment and speed of action that will make it happen.

Working with multiple data inputs presents significant engineering challenges, and the engineers who developed MIMO did a remarkable job addressing them.

(Yahoo) is now so desperate over the fact that they are losing several experienced software engineers with years of experience in the mobile industry, that they are now taking the exact opposite legal position.

With the NCP5603, ON Semiconductor is expanding its white LED driver portfolio, offering the first in a series of high efficiency charge pump-based solutions targeted at cell phone form factors that have critical space constraints. This series offers engineers high efficiency charge pump solutions with maximum flexibility in terms of output current control, short circuit protection, highly accurate current matching for backlighting and camera flash, while house in small, low profile DFN packages.

Until divers go down and actually examine the rigs and engineers can make estimates on the repair times, we just won't know.

Time is only linear for engineers and referees.

The only plan professor Barrett has presented was in January, when he proposed that he work with Microsoft engineers to improve the documentation.

When I am there at our global product development centers, I am meeting with the design team and reviewing design work being done there and meeting with engineers responsible for work being done specific to that region, meeting with purchasing team.

Major urban centers like Sacramento, like Los Angeles, remain protected only at the margin. Engineers and scientists have got to be fully involved in this decision process, this political process.

Luckily, we had some engineers along. They just love that kind of scenario -- troubleshooting on the fly. That's what brings us joy in our work is fixing something and carrying on, instead of just being shut down.

Many of those founders were not only engineers but immigrants.

Simply put, engineers were making decisions that senior management and physicians should have made.

Since the summer, Markko has been happier at the wheel of the 307 WRC and the engineers at Peugeot Sport have a clearer understanding of the sort of set-up that suits him. Everything's moving in the right direction and that's the main thing, both with a view to defending Peugeot's chances in its bid to win the manufacturers' title as well as to maintaining our own, very real chance of finishing in the top-three in the drivers' championship. We haven't given up!

Mobile technology is the way forward. The costs are not overwhelming and the benefits are substantial. When we looked at how much time it would save our engineers and how much we'd save in administration, travel and fuel bills, it was clear that the advantages greatly outweighed the costs.

Military bases were damaged that need to be repaired. Those levees (in New Orleans) need to be repaired, so the Army Corps of Engineers is going to need money, ... There's highway money that's going to be needed for all the interstates that have been damaged. There are damages to the wildlife refuges down there.

One of the things that is particularly painful within the context of this poor family is that the engineers actually had to witness this, knowing that when you get into a locomotive, there is no steering wheel. As you can imagine, they are pretty shook up about this whole thing, too.

None of us have enough engineers to do what we need to do. You get scale on the engineering level by doing alliances and you get scale on the costs.

My customers will sometimes come to me with a problem they need solved. Or they'll have an idea of what they need, and we figure out how to design a component that will meet that need. What we do here, as engineers and designers is come up with ideas, and then take the concept from design to actual product.

Right now, just 9 percent of engineers in Southeast Michigan are women. Automation Alley supports the STEPS camp as a part of our commitment to ensuring that Southeast Michigan has a well-prepared, diverse technology workforce well into the future.

I wouldn't totally correlate MBAs with business momentum and strategic thinking. Some engineers have very good business sense, and some corporate leaders don't even have advanced degrees. Having said that, there is something to be said for new thinking, strong decision-making and fresh ideas, particularly in organizations where corporate strategy and focus have become very staid.

If we can get two-thirds of our product development at one-fourth the cost, we come close to cutting our overall costs in half, ... Put another way, if I have 25 cents of every dollar this company takes in to spend on product development, getting more engineers working is how we can develop faster and how we win.

I am especially thrilled to be working closely with an incredibly creative and passionate group of scientists, artists, designers and engineers who constitute the faculty and students of the lab. I see this exceptional community working together over the next decade to overcome some of the world's most pressing societal problems -- from providing improved health care to an aging population, to devising inexpensive digital tools for developing economies, to changing the way children learn.

IBM is uniquely poised to connect multiple development teams through a secured, distributed environment. Systems engineers rely on the IBM Rational Software Development Platform to collaborate and govern their overall software development process.

But there's a lot of eyes out there now, with the (Army) Corps of Engineers and all the contractors, so I suspect if something happened again, we'd know pretty soon, ... Then we'd get busy mobilizing our people.

Business groups have been very smart about trying to change the subject from outsourcing and off-shoring to the supposed shortfall in U.S. engineers. There's really no serious shortage of engineers in this country.

China, as an example, in 2004 graduated 350,000 engineers and computer science-type people. The United States was under 140,000 and that separation continues.

China and India are generating scientists and engineers at a furious pace while America lags dangerously behind.

Fragmented boards can't have the expertise needed to review the Army Corps of Engineers plans for the levee system nor the clout to hold them accountable. Multiple boards cannot be part of a cohesive solution for the region. It is also reasonable to expect that a single board is going to be more efficient and cost effective yielding greater results everywhere for everyone.

From next season we will be even more energetic in our F-1 activities, working hard as a team in order to improve our technology, develop our young engineers and achieve our goal of winning the world championship.

If it were to rain a lot, there is concern from the Army Corps of Engineers that the levees might break,

If it's a technical issue, he won't just have the engineers of that product attend the meeting. He has all the right people assembled. He really knows how to rally the forces.

He has demonstrated that he is a talented, aggressive driver in the GP2 series, and he has impressed our engineers during his tests with the team. The test driver's role will be crucial during 2006 as we develop our V8 engine through the season to defend the World Championship.

The people in charge of the program wanted to encourage kids to pursue math at the middle school level. And the competition is designed by engineers to fill a gap that they were seeing.

The people we serve stand to benefit greatly from the vast knowledge and expertise that Engineers Without Borders can provide to Mercy Corps, especially in the design, management and quality assurance of large infrastructure projects.

We're producing as many engineers and scientists as South Korea -- an economy about one-tenth the size of ours.

Has your district defended any cases on behalf of the (U.S.) Army Corps of Engineers against claims brought by environmental groups seeking to block or otherwise impede the Corps work on the levees protecting New Orleans? If so, please describe the case and the outcome of the litigation.

Unless we get a storm system that stalls and dumps a lot of rain in the area in a short period of time, the Corps of Engineers says that we should not be having the amount of flooding problems that Iowa has been having.

We make a practice of being on- site for the initial install of every site. OSP engineers have joked with me that I must have worked in the field because the platform is designed to accommodate the 'fat fingers' of the field technician, rather than the manicured hands of a laboratory engineer.

He was the computer. I would have a dinner with him, if the car wasn't handling well on the Friday, and would explain to him what it was doing at different parts of the track. He would go back to the garage, and call the mechanics. And by Saturday morning the car would be fantastic. Only Colin Chapman could do that. Of all the engineers I worked with, all the team managers, Colin was a genius who had the intuition to do it.

He did not mention it. It's more use for us to send engineers with road-clearing and snow-moving equipment - because it will be winter soon - than that sort of operation, which, to my knowledge, Pakistan has not requested.

Harrah's Entertainment is working in conjunction with us in this removal and is furnishing marine engineers, structural engineers and other experts to assist in the demolition of these barges, ... They have been most cooperative.

It can be very difficult to put complex products together when engineers can't stick their heads over the cubicle wall and chat. On one project, I had to travel from Los Angeles to Connecticut 50 times, and even then it was a nightmare trying to get everything to work correctly.

I think this is such a cool opportunity for our kids. How many people are able to say they worked with NASA engineers while they were still in high school?

Lawson proceeded to express his disdain for consulting engineers and the cabinet's design engineers. Lawson stated that he had been building roads in Eastern Kentucky for many years, and he knew better than anybody what needed to be built.

I went from the really crude way we had of recording in Memphis to working with the top engineers and technologies in Los Angeles.

I went to a Jesuit school as an undergraduate, and that helped me gain a deep appreciation for philosophy. The general mentality of most engineers is that if we can invent something, we should. It's not that simple. At Heathrow airport they are debating the use of new X-ray technology that electronically disrobes a person and shows their naked image. Government power is something that's easy to abuse, and many people are raising questions about invasion of privacy.

It is an honor for HNTB to have the opportunity to assist the New Orleans District of the Army Corps of Engineers in continuing its valiant efforts to rebuild the city's infrastructure. We have assembled a talented team that will quickly deliver some diverse and complex services to meet the Corps' accelerated schedule.

Our (Hendrick) engineers and crew chiefs all get together and compare notes. That's when you really see the benefit of a four-car team.

Our vision is to rethink how many of the material needs of society can be met by using renewable agriculturally based raw materials, ... it is one of very few institutions in the world that can bring together so many physical and life scientists, engineers and social scientists with the talent and interest in sustainable development, or that has access to so many bright young minds.

Our traffic engineers down there can call up a controller and monitor the operation of that signal from Little Rock.

Right now, our nation is in somewhat of a crisis. We don't have now and are not producing now enough engineers to keep the United States competitive in a global market.

Participation at CARTS should be an indicator of the level of industry confidence. We expect that engineers and marketing executives will make the small investment of time to gain a competitive edge by finding out where the industry is going from both a technology and market perspective.

State engineers have taken a look at it and decided what we'd do to alleviate some of the problems we have there by reducing it to 45 mph.

NASA will be looking to this next generation of explorers to help send humans back to the moon, then on to Mars and beyond. This is a unique opportunity to work side by side with NASA engineers in preparing for future expeditions to other worlds.

Look at the numbers and quality of the engineers and scientists they produce and you know that this is where the R&D will be done. The Chinese have a space program, they are going to put a man on the moon and nobody sold them that technology.

We'll also beef up our software development capability because software is essential for operating digital consumer electronics. We are now far short of the software engineers we need.

The Army Corps of Engineers is playing with limited dollars right now and despite the fact that we have the same threats, we will be waiting a long, long time for any money from them,

The ancient Romans had a tradition: whenever one of their engineers constructed an arch, as the capstone was hoisted into place, the engineer assumed accountability for his work in the most profound way possible: he stood under the arch.

That's the phenomenon. Why did they all start moving in step? They did it unconsciously. That is what nobody had thought about and engineers did not anticipate.

I wasn't interested in test lab cost savings; I was interested in maintaining an exceptional level of product quality. To do that, I needed a lab that could scale, execute at high speeds, and amortize expensive equipment as effectively as possible. We'll always have more engineers generating code than equipment to test it; it's the nature of the business.

Most engineers use Telnet to access their network hardware and have a central Terminal Access Controller Access Control System or Radius server to authenticate users for all their networking hardware,

Microsoft's engineers have been griping about too much bureaucracy, and this reorganization runs counter to it. It is bound to cause some discussion among employees as you are essentially putting a business manager on top of a very technical group.

When that happens, it's a clock. It's nature's clock, and we are able to predict tide levels based on what we record today. Today, as I speak, right in front of me there's a construction crew. I'm looking out the window and they're driving pilings and pouring concrete for a dock. You would hope the engineers knew just how high the highest tide would be there.

We need to reach the future engineers and scientists in our community.

Windows 98 was designed and developed in the mid-1990s when engineers didn't take the Internet into consideration seriously. Subsequently, it is vulnerable to online hackers.

Wireless Silicon Valley has the potential to revolutionize the way that City and County services are provided. Police officers, firefighters, building inspectors, public works engineers and other government field personnel won't have to go back to the office to get work orders, look up records, or submit reports. Maps, images, and even video will be available where ever they are in the Silicon Valley.

We were looking for design engineers to design the body of this cart. I had the idea; I just didn't know how to make the cart's shell.

While all other sectors of the U.S. economy are growing, manufacturing employment is either stagnant or declining. We're losing the low-skilled, brawn-intensive manufacturing jobs to countries that offer abundant cheap labor, and the plants that remain tend to employ programmers and engineers that are skilled in today's technology.

We have a lot of different types of engineering activities that we're trying to place people in. What better place to talk to qualified engineers than at an engineering conference?

We have a large team of expert engineers and analysts devoted to it. By far, most invalid clicks are caught by our automatic filters and discarded before they reach an advertiser's bill.

We've made it hard for ourselves because we didn't perform as well as we should have. Our engineers are digesting data now and will be discussing options well into the night I would think.

We have to have the best education system in the world. We need mathematicians, engineers and scientists to develop the products and processes of the future, and frankly, we're not doing that.

We have worked very closely with the engineers on this project and they have kept us up to date on every aspect. They have been on schedule, which has allowed us to anticipate when the bridge would come down and so we can plan bus route detours that will take the least amount of time out of our riders' schedules.

We had one customer that chose Mexico over China. The two were within a percentage point in landed costs, but all of the customers' engineers were in the northeastern U.S. The one-hour time difference to Mexico was important. When they have issues with manufacturing, for seven out of eight hours of the shift, the engineers are on duty too. It is also easier to travel to Mexico for a couple of days.