Engineering sayings

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◆ The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong, it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.

- Douglas Adams99

◆ The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double logarithmic diagram.

- Thomas Koenig99

◆ A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible

- Freeman Dyson99

◆ An engineer is someone who is good with figures, but doesn't have the personality of an accountant.

- 99

◆ Architects and engineers are among the most fortunate of men since they build their own monuments with public consent, public approval and often public money.

- John Prebble99

◆ A theory may be so rich in descriptive possibilities that it can be made to fit any data.

- Phillip Johnson-Laird99

◆ Electronic calculators can solve problems which the man who made them cannot solve; but no government subsidised commission of engineers and physicists could create a worm.

- Joseph Wood Krutch99

◆ Engineering...to define rudely but not inaptly, is the art of doing that well with one dollar, which any bungler can do with two after a fashion.

- Arthur Mellen Wellington99

◆ I am an old man now, and when I die and go to Heaven there are two matters on which I hope for enlightement. One is quantum electrodynamics and the other is the turbulent motion of fluids. And about the former I am rather more optimistic.

- Sir Horace Lamb99

◆ Improvement makes strait roads: but the crooked roads without Improvement are roads of Genius.

- William Blake99

◆ The goal of science and engineering is to build better mousetraps. The goal of nature is to build better mice.

- 99

◆ Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.

- Scott Adams99

◆ Strive for perfection in everything you do. Take the best that exists and make it better. When it does not exist, design it.

- Sir Henry Royce99

◆ The engineer has been, and is, a maker of history

- James Kip Finch99