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Engineering Quotes


"I was in school studying civil engineering. A guy approached me on the street and said that I had a interesting look-very exotic. He told me I should try to be in the industry."


"I didn't write because in the corps I took mining engineering of all things and, you know, they, they graduate a mining engineer as a sort of an illiterate."


"Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process."


"I do understand why a desperate engineer still use a hammerto solve a hard problem. I think, that made him more humane."


"From here, it becomes an engineering problem; the engineer considers the ground motion that will occur and evaluates the requirements of the proposed structure in the light of the local foundation conditions."


"I suspect any worries about genetic engineering may be unnecessary. Genetic mutations have always happened naturally, anyway."
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