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• For decades engineers have stood accused that their buildings do not have any cultural value. We have attempted to liberate engineering of this accusation.

  Fritz Todt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Accusation, Engineering

• I don’t know technology and engineering. I don’t know accounting.

  Bernard Ebbers

  Topics in Technology

  Tags in Engineering

• The same undisciplined government spending and social engineering that has undermined our economy over the past 30 years has also been tearing at the social fabric of this land.

  Stockwell Day

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government, Engineering

• The engineering is secondary to the vision.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Topics in Vision

  Tags in Engineering

• I’m quite into the idea of engineering being beautiful.

  Sean Booth

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Engineering, Beautiful

• I got out of high school, bought a recording studio and started operating it as an engineer and a producer.

  T Bone Burnett

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Recording, Engineering

• I think one problem we’ve had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.

  Walter Isaacson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Creative, Engineering

• Architecture begins where engineering ends.

  Walter Gropius

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Architecture, Engineering

• One man’s “magic” is another man’s engineering. “Supernatural” is a null word.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Engineering, Man, Magic

• Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.

  Scott Adams

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Engineering, Problems

• Normal people… believe that if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain’t broke, it doesn’t have enough features yet.

  Scott Adams

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Engineering, People

• After graduating in engineering I went to the University of Kansas to get an MA in economics as a vehicle for allowing me to decide if I wanted to continue in economics.

  Vernon L Smith

  Tags in Engineering, Economics

• The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering – that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man’s good.

  L. Sprague de Camp

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Engineering, Arduous

• I was always fascinated by engineering. Maybe it was an attempt maybe to get my father’s respect or interest, or maybe it was just a genetic love of technology, but I was always trying to build things.

  James Cameron

  Tags in Engineering, Genetics