02.01.06
Engineering Quotes
Engineering Quotes
The writer is an Engineer! of the human soul.
- Joseph Stalin
If you are looking for perfect safety, you will do well to sit on a fence and watch the birds; but if you really wish to learn, you must mount a machine and become acquainted with its tricks by actual trial.
- Wilbur Wright, from an address to the Western Society of Engineers in Chicago, 18 September 1901.
There are three principal ways to lose money: wine, women, and engineers. While the first two are more pleasant, the third is by far the more certain.
- Baron Rothschild, ca. 1800
God help us. We’re in the hands of engineers.
- from Jurassic Park
The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Death and taxes are unsolved engineering problems.
- Romana Machado







