Quotes by Engineering Keep a sharp lookout upon your materials; get rid of every pound of material you can do without; put to yourself the question what business has it to be there?, avoid complexities, and make everything as simple as possible. Henry Maudslay engineeringsimplescience Engineers are not superhuman. They make mistakes in their assumptions, in their calculations, in their conclusions. That they make mistakes is forgivable; that they catch them is imperative. Thus it is the essence of modern engineering not only to be able to check one's own work but also to have one's work checked and to be able to check the work of others. Henry Petroski engineeringessencemistake Engineering, like poetry, is an attempt to approach perfection. And engineers, like poets, are seldom completely satisfied with their creations. They notice, even if no one else does, the world that is not quite le mot juste, or the hairline crack that blemishes the structure. Henry Petroski engineeringperfectiondoe Engineering is achieving function while avoiding failure. Henry Petroski engineeringfunctionachieve Failure is Central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation. Henry Petroski calculationsengineeringengineers The dollar is the final term in almost every equation which arises in the practice of engineering in any or all of its branches, except qualifiedly as to military and naval engineering, where in some cases cost may be ignored. Henry R. Towne engineeringmilitarypractice I emphasize that virtually every engineering calculation is ultimately a failure calculation, because without a failure criterion against which to measure the calculated result, it is a meaningless number. Henry Petroski engineeringcriterianumbers A failed structure provides a counterexample to a hypothesis and shows us incontrovertibly what cannot be done, while a structure that stands without incident often conceals whatever lessons or caveats it might hold for the next generation of engineers. Henry Petroski engineeringgenerationsdone Strive for perfection in everything you do. Henry Royce engineeringstriveperfection What is commonly overlooked in using the computer is the fact that the central goal of design is still to obviate failure, and thus it is critical to identify exactly how a structure may fail. The computer cannot do this by itself . . . Henry Petroski engineeringdesigngoal Take the best that exists and make it better. Henry Royce civil-engineerrolls-royceengineering Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design. Herbert Simon engineeringmedicinedesign Engineering without imagination sinks to a trade. Herbert Hoover engineeringimaginationscience 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 realization 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 engineeringprofession To say that a man is made up of certain chemical elements is a satisfactory description only for those who intend to use him as a fertilizer. Hermann Joseph Muller engineeringmenscience Any colour - so long as it's black. Henry Ford engineeringsciencelong Genetic engineering is a result of science advancement, so I don't think that in itself is bad. Hideo Kojima advancementengineeringthinking A company that cannot successfully implement the 5S's cannot expect to effectively integrate JIT, re-engineering, or any other large-scale change. Good workplaces develop beginning with the 5S's. Bad workplaces fall apart beginning with the 5S's. Hiroyuki Hirano engineeringworkplacefall It seems to be saying perpetually; 'I am the end of the nineteenth century; I am glad they built me of iron; let me rust.' ... It is like a passing fool in a crowd of the University, a buffoon in the hall; for all the things in Paris has made, it alone has neither wits nor soul. Hilaire Belloc engineeringironparis I have a daily call thats 2.5 hrs with the entire team: from materials, sourcing, manufacturing, design, sensor, firmware... mechanical engineering - all together and they all have to sit through each other's updates... but then understand what those tradeoffs are and I sort of force that communication. Hosain Rahman engineeringcommunicationteam«56789101112131415»
