Top 140 Engineers Quotes

Painters were also attorneys, happy storytellers of anecdote, psychologists, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists, engineers, but there were no creative painters.
Kazimir Malevich
Our ancient yogis and sages were not just medical healers, but systems scientists and systems engineers, who saw the body and the universe as an interconnected engineering system, a system of systems that are governed by fundamental engineering systems principles.
Shiva Ayyadurai
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.
Iris Chang
Engineers have a certain mindset of how they approach problem solving. That’s basically what engineers are: problem solvers. You identify the problem. Then you design a process to solve the problem. Then you execute the process and repeat it over and over until you get it right.
Trevor Bauer
My parents were electrical engineers, immigrants from China, and we were always just in a state of struggle, building our life.
Simu Liu
We expect our media to lead and open doors for our young talents. As we need creative engineers, doctors and managers, we also need creative journalists and media workers.
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
WTO is not the forum for labour standards. Next, the U.S. will argue the time zone difference is an unfair competitive advantage enjoyed by India that enables our software engineers to work while the Americans sleep.
Jairam Ramesh
It is vitally important for me to concentrate on myself, on the work that I have to do on the track and off it with the engineers, without really thinking about what people are expecting from me on the outside.
Charles Leclerc
The Beatles had some juice when it came to distortion, but Clapton was finally able to break through those early studio engineers’ fear of overloading. He defined the sound that guitarists spend the rest of their lives trying to get.
Joe Perry
Civil engineers build bridges. Electrical engineers, power grids. Software engineers, apps. From the engineers who created the Great Pyramids to the engineers who are designing and developing tomorrow’s autonomous vehicles, these visionaries and their tangible creations are inextricably linked.
Dinesh Paliwal
For me, cooking is practical. That’s the core of an engineer. Engineers are very practical designers and creative people. Every single thing I create has to have a purpose.
Alvin Leung
As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world – most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world’s poor.
Barry Commoner
It will be hard work. It's always hard work, and hard w

It will be hard work. It’s always hard work, and hard work from everybody within the team – technical director, mechanics, drivers, engineers – everyone in the team.
David Leslie
There are no drivers like Formula One drivers. They are engineers, in a way. They are driving manual cars one-handed at 200 miles per hour around streets in Monaco. These cars use the ultimate in technology.
Asif Kapadia
There’s a common personality type to software developers – one I certainly fall into. We’re more comfortable staring at a screen than staring into someone’s eyes. Engineers can be brilliant in the workplace, and something less-than-brilliant everywhere else.
Brianna Wu
My dad is an electrical engineer. So he was always very focused on, you know, teaching his daughters about, you know, science, math, technology. None of us actually became engineers for our careers, but I always had that exposure when I was young, and I just loved playing computer games.
Kristen Soltis Anderson
Most kids are not dreaming of being programmers, scientists or engineers.
will.i.am
Beaver do better work than the Corps of Engineers.
Mike Todd
What makes Silicon Valley really work? It’s a unique combination of great educational institutions – especially at Stanford – that generate engineers and a culture that starts companies.
John T. Chambers
There’s no faster way to get on the good side of most engineers than making fun of product managers.
Sarah Cooper
The manufacturing-intensive advanced energy industry promotes work for engineers, machinists, coders and installers, but also administrators, accountants, truck drivers, sales force, and a range of other occupations.
Stacey Abrams
Colleges produce more sports therapists than engineers. Perhaps because America is a sporty country: a lot of outdoors.
Azim Premji
I hope climate science becomes the big thing. And then what I want is electrical engineers to solve the world’s energy problems, energy distribution problems. I want mechanical engineers to make better transportation systems. I want chemical engineers to develop better solar panels, and so on.
Bill Nye
As engineers, we were going to be in a position to change the world – not just study it.
Henry Petroski
Plays are frequently infected with ideas that came from actors or even sound engineers. Some Shakespeare scholars wonder whether some of the Bard’s lines came from onstage improvisations by actors.
Clive Thompson
I had no talent for science. What was infinitely worse: all my fraternity brothers were engineers.
Kurt Vonnegut
Engineers don’t have that sixth sense where we can just toss in things here and there like many chefs.
Alvin Leung
I want to be the poster girl for engineers and computer nerds.
Alessandra Torresani
Engineers are behind the cars we drive, the pills we pop and the way we power our homes.
James Dyson
What you have to have is very smart, motivated, dedicated, and focused engineers and focus them on the right goal.
Lisa Su
There is a particular set of values commonly associated with being professional. Experience, expertise, trustworthiness, wisdom, and good judgement are all attributes aspired to by senior professional people, be they doctors, engineers, lawyers, civil servants, or the clergy.
Mark Walport
I’m an electrical engineer. Honestly, I think we have too many lawyers in Washington. Maybe we need some more engineers. They’re trained to solve problems, and we can actually do math, which is a desperately needed skill back there.
Greg Gianforte
I like to think about the future and how things can be done better than they are now. That’s what engineers do.
Martin Cooper
It’s very important for me to focus on myself, on the job I have to do on and off the track with the engineers without really thinking about what people expect of me off the track.
Charles Leclerc
China cannot pull in the best and brightest from all over the world. It’s an ethnically defined nation, the opposite of an immigrant nation. You don’t see a lot of American engineers trying to be Chinese citizens.
Amy Chua
Well-trained medical doctors and engineers leave Nigeria to the developed countries. We want to reverse that.
Goodluck Jonathan
Because Facebook can’t exist without AI, it needs all its engineers to build with it.
Steven Levy
Diversifying our tech talent pool is an imperative for the tech sector. More diverse engineers and entrepreneurs will bring about a new type of innovation that Silicon Valley has yet to see.
Mitch Kapor
Similar to many multinational technology companies, Zoom has operations and employees in China. And like many multinational technology companies, our offices in China are operated by subsidiaries of the U.S. parent company. Our engineers are employed through these subsidiaries. We don’t hide this.
Eric Yuan
We can’t simply blame the engineers when things go wrong because, no matter how well they plan, things don’t always go according to plan.
Henry Petroski
Problem-solving is essential to engineering. Engineers are constantly on the lookout for a better way to do things.
Dinesh Paliwal
I am an engineer and belong to a family of engineers and Cas.
Shefali Zariwala
When screening engineers from other companies, its smart to value engineers from great companies more than those from mediocre companies.
Ben Horowitz
I am suspicious of career engineers, people that plan i

I am suspicious of career engineers, people that plan it out every step of the way.
Henry Paulson
I’m of Russian-Jewish background. Like many Soviet Jews, my parents were engineers. My family migrated from Ukraine to Israel when I was six. They arrived in Israel with very little… Within a year of arriving in Israel, the Yom Kippur War happened.
Sasha Roiz
The fact is, an America’s Cup team is more than a sailing team. It’s anywhere from sort of 80 to upward of 100 people; of designers, engineers, boat builders, an incredible group of people, and there are a lot of nationalities in New Zealand’s team.
James Spithill
When young girls can get 400,000 likes by doing a sexy selfie… we have to offer them another way of being. To dream of being female astronauts, engineers or presidents.
Maimouna Doucoure
The basic technical protocols that have enabled the Internet to work in such a globally interconnected way are developed and shared openly by a community of engineers.
Rebecca MacKinnon
The blockchain concept was pioneered within the context of crypto-currency Bitcoin, but engineers have imagined many other ways for distributed ledger technology to streamline the world. Stock exchanges and big banks, for example, are looking at blockchain-type systems as trading settlement platforms.
Anthony Scaramucci
I came to Silicon Valley in 1997 and joined WebEx. At that time, WebEx was small, only 10 engineers and two co-founders.
Eric Yuan
Doctors, engineers, CA’s, IPS officers, MBA, are the most common careers Indian parents choose, whilst deciding for their children.
Shweta Basu Prasad
It’s not like I’m nervous of people seeing what I can or can’t do on camera or on TV or anything, or what my engineers think.
Lando Norris
I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.
Brian Eno