Elizabeth II Quotes

To the engineer falls the job of clothing the bare bones of science with life, comfort, and hope.

A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.

The core of what I do is solve problems, whether that's in graphic engine flow or rockets. I like working on things that are going to have an impact one way or the other.

F1's ability to problem-solve is second to none and our ability to make rapid prototype parts is again second to none.

Engineering is the closest thing to magic that exists in the world.

To the engineer, all matter in the universe can be placed into one of two categories: (1) things that need to be fixed, and (2) things that will need to be fixed after you've had a few minutes to play with them. Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

Engineering is the application of scientific principles toward practical ends. If the engineering isn't practical, it's bad engineering.

I'm not a designer, I'm an inventor.

My training and my inclination is to invent.

Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.

You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.

Science is about knowing; engineering is about doing.

Anytime you put a challenge out there, people come up with a creative solution on the software side.

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.

The Swedish engineer who invented the zip fastener made a greater intellectual leap than many scientists do in a lifetime.

Science - or the products of science like technology - is just a way of achieving something real, something that happens, something that works.

Tech, in the sense of... putting things together, that goes back beyond memory for me.

The Book of the science of Mechanics must precede the Book of useful inventions.

Engineering or Technology is the making of things that did not previously exist, whereas science is the discovering of things that have long existed.

I remember someone once said there is a practical aspect to my designs, and I remember thinking, 'That doesn't sound so creative,' but that is actually the truth. There is a practicality to it. I don't design just to design. There is a reason and, hopefully, an interesting reason behind it - that is where my creativity comes in.

You have to think that the answer - and the right answer - for you and your organization might not be something that's been done before. And it's up to you to discover and work with your team to form and figure out how to do successfully.

FCA is a culture of leaders and employees that were born out of adversity and who operate without sheet music.

For me, cooking is practical. That's the core of an engineer. Engineers are very practical designers and creative people. Every single thing I create has to have a purpose.

The way we do our architecture is to show that we can come up with our own solutions. We don't just take orders.

I just want people to be excited about hard stuff, that's what engineering is.