Civil Engineering Quotes

“In order to create a sustainable world, we need to:
1) Educate people.
2) Educate people.
3) Educate people.
For every person left uneducated about the system of this sphere, the nature will make us all pay for it. Sustainability can only start in the mind.”
― A. Togay Koralturk

“[A] pile driver was improvised by mounting a large steam donkey engine, a steam hammer, and a timber tower on a barge.”
― Ray Bottenberg

“The funnel-shaped devices are tremie tubes, which are apparently being used to avoid having the wet concrete free fall into the forms where the 4-cubic-yard buckets could not fit to pour directly.”
― Ray Bottenberg, Grand Coulee Dam

“Human material culture - the buildings and roads and works that would strike any human as an obvious sign of intelligence - had for years seemed like part of an elaborate mating ritual to the starlings, useless and flamboyant as the peacock's tail.”
― Joe Pitkin, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Volume 132, Issue 6, June 2012

“The underlying values of the transportation system are not the American public's values. They are not even human values. They are values unique to a profession that has been empowered with reshaping an entire continent around a new, experimental idea of how to build human habitat.”
― Charles Marohn

“Jake designed the self-driving network to save lives, but some bastard had gone and weaponized the damn thing.”
― J. Luke Bennecke, Civil Terror: Gridlock

“Engineers - making the world a better, safer, happier place.”
― J. Luke Bennecke, Waterborne

“The Road to Success Is Always Under Construction”
― civil wale

“If you're a Civil Engineer don't be so proud because you can reconstruct everything except your own broken heart!!”
― Mansi Patil

“Architecture is a reflection of the human spirit.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo