I would say the most help I got was from my dad. My dad is a civil engineer in Switzerland; he’s 90 years old now, so he’s no longer active as a civil engineer, but still a very active person. – Claude Nicollier
Keep in mind that if you take a tour through a hospital and look at every machine with on and off switch that is brought into the service of diagnosing the human condition, that machine is based on principles of physics discovered by a physicist in a machine designed by an engineer. – Neil deGrasse Tyson
I went to Carnegie Mellon and was an electrical engineer, but electrical engineering wasn’t right for me. – David M. Kelley
The Swedish engineer who invented the zip fastener made a greater intellectual leap than many scientists do in a lifetime. – Martin Rees
Pictures, abstract symbols, materials, and colors are among the ingredients with which a designer or engineer works. To design is to discover relationships and to make arrangements and rearrangements among these ingredients. – Paul Rand
I used to work on a survey crew, because my dad was an engineer, but he was also a surveyor. – Michael Keaton
My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918. – James Rainwater
First you learn the value of abstraction, then you learn the cost of abstraction, then you’re ready to engineer. – Kent Beck
I identify more as a musician than as a singer, because I play piano and percussion, and I engineer and produce everything that I do. – Janina Gavankar
I put a lot of weight on feelings and am weirdly in touch with them, which is not typical for an engineer. – Luis von Ahn
When you’re a kid and your father is an engineer, he goes to the office. I saw my father get up and go to the office in the house and write. But I don’t see any similarities. – Jacques Audiard
I used to be an engineer, and I was the worst engineer in the United States of America. That’s why I became a comic. – Loni Love
I’ve been a software engineer, a novelist, a journalist, and a manager – and managing developers is easily the trickiest thing I’ve ever done. – Jon Evans
Unfortunately, I’m an engineer. I’m always thinking about, what’s the task and how do I get it done? And some of my tasks are pretty broad, and pretty fuzzy, and pretty funky, but that’s the way I think. – Michael Porter
I never claimed to be a computer engineer, but I did train as an industrial designer, and I am a consumer marketer, and I am very comfortable dealing with complex businesses and complexity in general and simplifying it – basically a systems designer. – John Sculley
One of the ways a landfill engineer anywhere in the world earns bragging rights is if he can pour himself a glass of the leachate from his landfill and drink it. – Jeanne Marie Laskas
When I was a kid and I bought a record, I ripped that thing open, I wanted to know who was playing what, what studio it was cut at, who was the string arranger, who was the engineer. – Lenny Kravitz
Life is the steam of the corporeal engine; the soul is the engineer who makes use of the steam-quickened engine. – Sara Coleridge
My parents were farmers’ kids from South Dakota. My dad was an engineer. I wanted to be responsible and major in something pragmatic. – Ron Carlson
Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a designer but that’s because the designer himself, the engineer, is explained by natural selection. – Richard Dawkins
If vampires were a separate species, and they were into genetic engineering, what would they engineer for? – Octavia E. Butler