Engineers Quotes

They were two and a half decades in which Brazil had no capacity to invest in infrastructure. Just to give you an idea, in 1989, we had in Brazil about 50,000 project-engineering businesses. When I took office, there were just 8,000. Universities were no longer turning out engineers.

– Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

I can go into LinkedIn and search for network engineers and come up with a list of great spear-phishing targets because they usually have administrator rights over the network. Then I go onto Twitter or Facebook and trick them into doing something, and I have privileged access.

– Kevin Mitnick

I had no talent for science. What was infinitely worse: all my fraternity brothers were engineers.

– Kurt Vonnegut

On my mother’s side, I come from Midlands engineers and, on my father’s, from tenant farmers near Oxford.

– John Sulston

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

– Scott Adams

Of course, I have given my engineers some headaches over the years, but they go with me. I have always wanted my buildings to be as light as possible, to touch the ground gently, to swoop and soar, and to surprise.

– Oscar Niemeyer

There’s a preponderance of scientists and engineers among China’s rulers. New President Xi Jinping was trained as a chemical engineer. His predecessor, Hu Jintao, earned a degree in hydraulic engineering. His predecessor, Jiang Zemin, held a degree in electrical engineering.

– Ramez Naam

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

Most kids are not dreaming of being programmers, scientists or engineers.

– will.i.am

With ‘Titanic,’ you have all the first-class passengers interwoven with wonderful stories about the maids and the engineers, the people downstairs in the galleys.

– Sophie Winkleman

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