Well-trained medical doctors and engineers leave Nigeria to the developed countries. We want to reverse that. – Goodluck Jonathan
I lived in fear that other engineers would stop me in the street and ask me a math question, and I wouldn’t know the answer. – Gurjeet Singh
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
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
The scientist and engineers who are building the future need the poets to make sense of it. – Jason Silva
I want entrepreneurs to be engineers and scientists and designers; they don’t necessarily have to be Internet entrepreneurs or retail entrepreneurs. – James Dyson
Engineers are behind the cars we drive, the pills we pop and the way we power our homes. – James Dyson
Many of the engineers I interviewed worked on reverse-engineering technology. It’s a hallmark of Area 51. – Annie Jacobsen
Colleges produce more sports therapists than engineers. Perhaps because America is a sporty country: a lot of outdoors. – Azim Premji
People say I play real loud. I don’t, actually. I’m recorded loud and a lot of that is because we have good engineers. Mick knows what a good drum sound is as well, so that’s part of the illusion really. I can’t play loud. – Charlie Watts
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
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
I want young Indian composers to be able to do more than just film music. I want to give them the skills that will enable them to create their own palette of sounds instead of having to write formulaic music. It doesn’t matter if they become sound engineers, producers, composers or performers – I want them to be as imaginative as they like. – A. R. Rahman
We look at the number of engineers coming out of India; we look at the growth of the economy, and it’s clear that India is a place we want to be. – Douglas Leone
Calling China’s online censorship system a ‘Great Firewall’ is increasingly trendy, but misleading. All walls, being the creation of engineers, can be breached with the right tools. – Evgeny Morozov
Unless engineers can stop southern Louisiana from sinking into the Gulf – the Mississippi Delta is the fastest-disappearing land on the planet – even post-Katrina’s modernized levees will be overwhelmed. – Nina Easton
One has to look out for engineers – they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb. – Marcel Pagnol
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
A lot of the Google inventions came from engineers just screwing around with ideas. And then management would see them, and we’d say, ‘Boy, that’s interesting. Let’s add some more engineers.’ – Eric Schmidt
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
Having a scriptable infrastructure requires upfront work but can pay huge dividends in bringing new engineers onto your infra team, as well as helping in disaster-recovery scenarios. – Mike Krieger
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
Painters were also attorneys, happy storytellers of anecdote, psychologists, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists, engineers, but there were no creative painters. – Kazimir Malevich
I’ve actually found the image of Silicon Valley as a hotbed of money-grubbing tech people to be pretty false, but maybe that’s because the people I hang out with are all really engineers. – Linus Torvalds
I pay two full-time assistants in my studio, plus consultants who are architects, engineers, and landscape architects, as well as lighting designers. – Janet Echelman
