More quotations tagged with “engineering”
Engineers participate in the activities which make the resources of nature available in a form beneficial to man and provide systems which will perform optimally and economically.
—N. W. Dougherty
I don't care what it is, when it has an LCD screen, it makes it better.
—L. M. K. Boelter
Engineering is a great profession. There is the satisfaction of watching a figment of the imagination emerge through the aid of science to a plan on paper. Then it moves to realisation in stone or metal or energy. Then it brings homes to men or women. Then it elevates the standard of living and adds to the comforts of life. This is the engineer's high privilege.
—Herbert Hoover
Engineering is the art of organizing and directing men and controlling the forces and materials of nature for the benefit of the human race.
—Henry G. Stott
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 non-existent 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