Quotes by Engineers Writers are engineers of human souls. Yury Olesha engineershumanssoul 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 alwaysblameengineersmatter We call the fates of the Titanic and the Concordia - as well as those of the space shuttles Challenger and Columbia - 'accidents.' Foreseeing such undesirable events is what engineers are expected to do. However, design trade-offs leave technological systems open to failings once predicted, but later forgotten. Henry Petroski accidentsengineersdesignspace There's a preponderance of scientists and engineers among China's rulers. New President Xi Jinping was trained as a chemical engineer. His predecessor, Hu Jintao, earned a degree in hydraulic engineering. His predecessor, Jiang Zemin, held a degree in electrical engineering. Ramez Naam newengineeringengineerspresident 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 parentsengineersfamilywar With 'Titanic,' you have all the first-class passengers interwoven with wonderful stories about the maids and the engineers, the people downstairs in the galleys. Sophie Winkleman youengineerswonderfulpeople Somehow we must reintegrate the scientific with the popular and reconnect the future to the present. This is less a job for scientists, engineers, bureaucrats, and administrators and more a job for novelists, moviemakers, popularizers, and politicians. Newt Gingrich politiciansjobfutureengineers On my mother's side, I come from Midlands engineers and, on my father's, from tenant farmers near Oxford. John Sulston farmersengineersmotherfather With the rise of software patents, engineers coding new stuff - whether within a large software company or as kids writing smartphone apps - are exposed to a claim that somewhere a prior patent is being infringed. Jonathan Zittrain risenewengineerswriting People keep inventing all these new machines, and producers and recording engineers keep wanting to use them. John Prine newmachinesengineerspeople We have a massive shortage of engineers and one of the big glaring holes is that we have so few women doing engineering - it's less than 10 per cent of the workforce. Jo Swinson doingengineeringwomenengineers It's shocking we don't see more engineers and entrepreneurs interested in enterprise. Jim Goetz moreseeshockingengineers The scientist and engineers who are building the future need the poets to make sense of it. Jason Silva needfutureengineersbuilding One has to look out for engineers - they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb. Marcel Pagnol endlookatomic-bombengineers They were two and a half decades in which Brazil had no capacity to invest in infrastructure. Just to give you an idea, in 1989, we had in Brazil about 50,000 project-engineering businesses. When I took office, there were just 8,000. Universities were no longer turning out engineers. Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva youengineersofficehalf Ultimately Halcyon needs the greatest scientists and engineers in the world to succeed in its mission. Luke Nosek missionengineerssucceedworld I knew a lot of black scientists, engineers, and mathematicians, and female mathematicians and engineers, women of all backgrounds. So this idea that anyone could be an engineer, a mathematician, or whatever, was something that I had grown up with and thought was really normal. Margot Lee Shetterly thoughtwomenengineersblack Our fish, our recreation, our irrigation and all our uses of the Missouri River are threatened if the drought continues and the Corps of Engineers decisions aren't changed. Mike Rounds riverfishdecisionsengineers 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 engineersmediacreativedoors I tell my engineers that they should not overload me with information. Max Verstappen tellmeengineersinformation«1234»
