Top 140 Engineers Quotes

On the driving side, I think I grew in the Nationwide Series to a point, but then coming over to the Cup side, I kind of had to grow in different ways as far as the work ethic that I had to put back into talking to my engineers a lot more and talking to my crew chief a lot more.
Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
So much of the bitterness that the term ‘McCarthyism’ evokes refers to the probe begun in New Jersey in the summer of 1953 – both in the laboratories of Fort Monmouth and in the surrounding communities of Red Bank and Belmar, where some of the best scientists and engineers in America worked.
David Oshinsky
You have students in America, in Britain, who do not want to be engineers. Perhaps it is the workload, I studied engineering, and I know what a grind it is.
Azim Premji
The space shuttle was designed, at least in part, to broaden our knowledge of the universe. To scientists, the vehicle was a tool; to engineers, it was their creation.
Henry Petroski
I think an engineer has not matured until he or she has conceived of a product and participated in every stage of bringing it to fruition, if that makes sense. And not many engineers get to do all of those stages.
Martin Cooper
I thought it would be good for the engineers and workmen who were building my spacecraft to see the pilot who would have to fly it hanging around. It might make them just a little more careful than they already were and a little more eager to get the work done on time if they saw how much I cared.
Gus Grissom
I want entrepreneurs to be engineers and scientists and designers; they don’t necessarily have to be Internet entrepreneurs or retail entrepreneurs.
James Dyson
For Customer Development to succeed, everyone on the team – from investor or parent company to engineers, marketers and founders – needs to understand and agree that the Customer Development process is different to its core.
Steve Blank
Even beginning to teach cybersecurity awareness at an early age can pique the interest of future researchers, engineers, and administrators.
Ken Xie
The music industry is dominated by guys. I work with men 98 percent of the time – producers, arrangers, musicians, engineers.
Shakira
My colleagues and I were engineers who worked for DCM’s calculator division. These electronic calculators used digital integrated circuits, and then they started using chips. The advanced versions of those chips were used for programmable calculators, which were the forerunners of PCs.
Shiv Nadar
More than ever, the world needs good engineers. However, the pool of talent is shrinking not growing.
Dean Kamen
I have my little entourage of who I travel with, some friends and people who help me more technically on the track. Obviously, my engineers who I work closely with, we are all in the ship together.
Lance Stroll
I’ll tell ya this: I come from an educated family. My father was an attorney representing blue collar workers, and my uncle was a chemical engineer… on my mom’s side, all my uncles were engineers – all ten of them.
Joe Piscopo
It’s all men on my channel. All my comment sections are engineers at Google.
Simone Giertz
Indian software engineers are the best in the world; even in Silicon Valley, the best software engineers are Indians.
Masayoshi Son
The advantage comes out of the capability of Indian engineers and the competitiveness of their capabilities and the cost at which they can create those capabilities.
Baba Kalyani
Computer programmers, biotechnologists, environmental scientists, neuroscientists, nanotech engineers – all of these fields, and more, should have at least a course in ethics as part of their degree requirements.
Jamais Cascio
Diversifying sufficiently among uncorrelated risks can reduce portfolio risk toward zero. But financial engineers should know that’s not true of a portfolio of correlated risks.
Harry Markowitz
Dre’s from Compton, I’m from Brooklyn, and we both wanted to make a better life for ourselves, right? And we both – somehow, we’re both recording engineers, that’s how we got our break.
Jimmy Iovine
I’m an engineer by trade, and what engineers do is they go and build, and they don’t think a lot about storytelling.
Travis Kalanick
The scientist and engineers who are building the future

The scientist and engineers who are building the future need the poets to make sense of it.
Jason Silva
Hackathons are these things where just all of the Facebook engineers get together and stay up all night building things. And, I mean, usually at these hackathons, I code too, just alongside everyone.
Mark Zuckerberg
The south produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors and lawyers and poets, but certainly no engineers and mechanics. Let Yankees adopt such low callings.
Margaret Mitchell
When the Congress was in power, the educated – especially the engineers – were jobless and they could not even sell pakodas and the UPA government could not bestow attention. But Prime Minister Narendra Modi created employment opportunities for the educated youth.
Tamilisai Soundararajan
I was the CEO of Justin.tv, and my cofounders were senior engineers there. We came up with the idea at Justin.tv in the fall of 2010.
Michael Seibel
‘Rocket Boys,’ for one reason or the other, just happened to strike a chord across country and across world, maybe because it’s set in a little coal-mining town. That’s why NASA likes it – most of the engineers come from towns very similar.
Homer Hickam
I want broadband to grow, more mobile devices available, particularly in underprivileged communities. I want STEM education to go ahead and fund the next generation of engineers.
Chris Sacca
We have a very good relationship with Renault. They treat us with absolute parity to the works team, and there is a very good collaboration between Renault engineers and Red Bull Racing engineers.
Christian Horner
Television shows are not like cars or operating systems, and they are not best made by engineers or coders in the same assembly line manner as consumer products which need to be of uniform size, shape, and quality.
John Landgraf
For Israel to retain its amazing position as the largest concentration of high tech after Silicon Valley, we need more engineers and mathematicians. We have too many lawyers.
Naftali Bennett
Many of the engineers I interviewed worked on reverse-engineering technology. It’s a hallmark of Area 51.
Annie Jacobsen
Not all SF or fantasy has to inspire new scientists and engineers.
David Brin
When someone builds a bridge, he uses engineers who have been certified as knowing what they are doing. Yet when someone builds you a software program, he has no similar certification, even though your safety may be just as dependent upon that software working as it is upon the bridge supporting your weight.
Dave Parnas
Ours was a family of engineers with no political affiliation; art and culture were the only things that we discussed at home.
Roopa Ganguly
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.
Henry Petroski
I love that our engineers are first and foremost ‘Instagram’ users.
Mike Krieger