Inventing is the mixing of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less materials you need.
Charles F. Kettering
Engineering is the art of organizing and directing men and controlling the forces and materials of nature for the benefit of the human race.
Henry G. Stott
Engineering is the professional art of applying science to the optimum conversion of natural resources to the benefit of man.
Ralph J. Smith
Engineering is the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man.
Tredgold
Engineering is the art of modelling materials we do not wholly understand, into shapes we cannot precisely analyse so as to withstand forces we cannot properly assess, in such a way that the public has no reason to suspect the extent of our ignorance.
Dr AR Dykes
Engineering problems are under-defined, there are many solutions, good, bad and indifferent. The art is to arrive at a good solution. This is a creative activity, involving imagination, intuition and deliberate choice.
Ove Arup
When engineers and quantity surveyors discuss aesthetics and architects study what cranes do we are on the right road.
Ove Arup
One has to watch out for engineers – they begin with the sewing machine and end up with the atomic bomb.
Marcel Pagnol
There can be little doubt that in many ways the story of bridge building is the story of civilisation. By it we can readily measure an important part of a people’s progress.
Franklin D Roosevelt
Therefore O students study mathematics and do not build without foundations.
Leonardo Da Vinci
An engineer is someone who washes his hands before going to the toilet.
Anon
Go for civil engineering, because civil engineering is the branch of engineering which teaches you the most about managing people. Managing people is a skill which is very, very useful and applies almost regardless of what you do.
Sir John Harvey Jones
It takes an engineer to undertake the training of an engineer and not, as often happens, a theoretical engineer who is clever on a blackboard with mathematical formulae but useless as far as production is concerned.
The Rev EB Evans