Engineer Quotes

“When Henry Ford decided to produce his famous V-8 motor, he chose to build an engine with the entire eight cylinders cast in one block, and instructed his engineers to produce a design for the engine. The design was placed on paper, but the engineers agreed, to a man, that it was simply impossible to cast an eight-cylinder engine-block in one piece.

Ford replied,''Produce it anyway.”
― Henry Ford

“If we are not apt to steer our life and engineer our individuality, we become preys of the pecking order or panting cardboard characters turning into walking dead. ("Terra incognita" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

“After I return to Australia, I promise you that I shall… qualify as an engineer and then return here and help your people out.”
― Michael G. Kramer, The Full Circle for Mick

“I suppose I’ve always been hyper-obsessed with efficiency, and I’ve never been very materialistic. Those traits have persisted into adulthood. They are why I became an engineer.”
― Luigi Mangione

“A scientist studies what is, whereas an engineer creates what never was.”
― Theodore von Karman

“He's a sturdy fellow, bald as a hen's egg, and like all engineers, practical as a pensioner.”
― Steven Pressfield, The Virtues of War

“Who scouts through wilderness and cold
And finds the stone that turns to gold,
The gems of Nature's wealth untold--
The Engineer.

Who gets five paltry plunks per day
To give the thing he finds away
To some one else who makes it pay--
The Engineer.

Who's heart is always in the game,
When trouble comes it's just the same,
But when it comes, who gets the blame?
The Engineer.

- Robert Elmer Horton (Water Power and Water Supply Preliminaries, 1913, Michigan Engineer)”
― Robert Elmer Horton

“Spoken like a feeble scientist, lad. You must learn to think like an engineer! To a scientist nothing is proven until it is demonstrated, every way up, before the eyes of a dozen of his sober-suited peers. But an engineer seeks what is possible. I don’t care if this theory is right or wrong; I ask instead what I can do with it.”
― Stephen Baxter, Anti-Ice

“What I witnessed at the dangerous DeSoto Solar Farm went against my training as a Chartered Electrical Engineer.”
― Steven Magee

“Most managers I have worked for have told me I have some of the best technical skills they have seen in an electrical and electronics engineer.”
― Steven Magee

“As a Chartered Electrical Engineer working for one of the largest electrical utility company’s in the USA, I found I was working in an environment that my training told me was completely abnormal and dangerous!”
― Steven Magee

“Good engineer designs gadgets, great engineer designs society.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo

“What do you call an electrical and electronics engineer with Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity? Unemployed!”
― Steven Magee

“The real happiness of an engineer is when your product or service is used by the people.”
― Rupesh Sreeraman

“The engineer who created this has grand and lofty ideas— but not much practical sense.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Rhythm of War

“Difference between toys and innovation is that toys are for the privileged, innovation is for everyone.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“The Humanitarian Nerd
(Sonnet 1538)

Machines have a tendency of
disconnecting mind from society.
Unless you're driven by a humane dream,
silicon dreams only facilitate inhumanity.

Worse than silicosis is silicon psychosis,
Worse than septicemia es la indiferencia.
Worse than writer's block is fighter's block,
to settle in ice-age is insult of la conciencia.

Before you master raspberry and arduino,
learn to master common everyday humanity.
If you're not burning with the fire to do good,
there's no point to your gray's anatomy.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“Before you master raspberry and arduino,
learn to master common everyday humanity.
If you're not burning with the fire to do good,
there's no point to your gray's anatomy.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“Worse than silicosis is silicon psychosis.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“The golden age of startups is behind us,
today it's mostly filth, fraud and smut.
Amidst the crowd of trust fund termites,
be the humanovator to humanize the world.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Divine Refugee

“Innovation that outlives its usefulness,
is no longer innovation but carnivoration.
Innovators not in touch with soil-n-roots,
are predators of the concrete jungle.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Divine Refugee

“Silicon and Sapiens (The Sonnet)

Once upon a time,
I put down my soldering iron
and picked up the keyboard,
for I couldn't afford to sustain
my passion for electronics any more.

But now that I look back,
It was for the best.
The world has plenty tech genius,
what it lacks is reformer scientist.

My inside awareness of machine intricacies
has been an aid to my neuroscience.
In a world torn between mind and machine,
I bridge the shores of silicon and sapiens.

Biologists often diss the potential of machine,
just like gadgeteers are oblivious to life.
Life is a cosmic miracle, machines are a human one,
and with added purpose, machines could be
the mightiest defense of life.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“Biologists often diss the potential of machine, just like gadgeteers are oblivious to life. Life is a cosmic miracle, machines are a human one, and with added purpose, machines could be the mightiest defense of life.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“Life is a cosmic miracle, machines are a human one, and with added purpose, machines could be the mightiest defense of life.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“Humanitarian Engineer (The Sonnet)

The burning scent of molten solder
is just as intoxicating to me
as the musky scent of soil drenched
in the first downpour of monsoon.

In the right human hands, a soldering iron
can solder the cracks in accessibility,
while in the hands of just clever apes,
soldering iron cooks up circuits of privilege,
while burning down the bridges of equality.

Any engineer can tell the voltage
of a battery from taste, but only
a humane engineer knows how to put
each volt and amp to humanitarian use.
The burnt fingertips count for something,
only when your innovation is catalyst for good.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience

“Any engineer can tell the voltage of a battery from taste, but only a humane engineer knows how to put each volt and amp to humanitarian use.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience

“Doha wasn’t a very good friend.
But he was a good person.
And he was a great engineer.”
― Molly Collier, The Paragon

“And yet, in all of his efforts to understand the Mirror, his great mystery, his attempts to prove logic had failed again and again.
Tests and theories and science—these things were his bread and butter—and they were meaningless now, in the face of mystery.”
― Molly Collier, The Paragon

“He looked distraught, though perhaps he always looked like that, given that he didn’t eat enough or sleep enough or witness sunlight anywhere other than through a small window in a dark workshop.”
― Molly Collier, The Paragon

“He didn’t know what to do. His mind told him there was nothing to do. His body told him it could no longer do anything at all. A feeling of defeat loomed over him like a dark cloud, threatening rain, threatening rust.
Was this what giving up felt like?”
― Molly Collier, The Paragon