77 Quotes About Engineers

The engineering mountain managers went to the summit of Mauna Kea two to three days per week, whereas the technicians went there four days per week. It was apparent to me that the technicians were sicker than the engineers.

Meanwhile, the original programmers will have left, and their replacements -- believing they understand the code -- will make some truly spectacular errors, mistakes that will suddenly make everything completely stop working for a while. So that what had seemed to be a descending curve of bugs, a fall toward the ever-receding zero, will reveal itself as the shape of another equation altogether: a line of relentlessly rising, bug-counts climbing in an endless battle against infinity.

The complete Apollo team...directly involves slightly over 400,000 people...Included are some if the country's foremost scientists and engineers. This mobilization of men and resources is unprecedented in history since WWII

A good businessman knows how to make a profit. An engineer makes sure it runs well. We need more leaders who are task oriented.

As in real life, complex engineering designs demand a pragmatic approach.

In engineering, the joints are the most crucial. They have to be both firm and flexible, exactly like the joints in our body.

An engineer is a machine for turning coffee into designs (apologies to Paul Erdős)

The brain can be put to better use by reducing anxiety, just as reducing friction between threads can increase the torque transferred to the axial load.

Engineering is the art and science of nuts and bolts.