Steve McConnell Quotes

Engineering is a great profession. There is the satisfaction of watching a figment of the imagination emerge through the aid of science to a plan on paper. Then it moves to realization in stone or metal or energy. Then it brings homes to men or women. Then it elevates the standard of living and adds to the comforts of life. This is the engineer's high privilege.

Science can amuse and fascinate us all, but it is engineering that changes the world.

At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession.

Engineering or technology is all about using the power of science to make life better for people, to reduce cost, to improve comfort, to improve productivity, etc.

Studying engineering was natural for me; I was always interested in technology and building things.

Problem-solving is essential to engineering. Engineers are constantly on the lookout for a better way to do things.

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

It is exciting to discover electrons and figure out the equations that govern their movement; it is boring to use those principles to design electric can openers. From here on out, it's all can openers.

Whether or not science can be applied to that mental construct [i.e. the designed entity] is a matter of availability. If there is body of scientific knowledge that can be applied, then it would be foolish not to exploit it. However, if there is none, it does not mean that the thing cannot be designed, made, and used safely.

Engineering isn't about perfect solutions; it's about doing the best you can with limited resources.

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

I happen to love engineering. I love figuring things out in a spatial sense, that whole realm of working with mechanical parts, and the relationship of the parts, and things like ratios and the speeds of particular objects.

I'm an inventor.

I liked to work in a shop down in the basement and invent things and build gadgets.

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.

For as long as I can remember, I have been fascinated by things large and small. I wanted to know what made my watch tick, my radio play, and my house stand. I wanted to know who invented the bottle cap and who designed the bridge. I guess from early on I wanted to be an engineer.

Science is about knowing; engineering is about doing.

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

Technology makes things faster and more cost-effective, but it's not perfect. It requires you to be as flexible as you can be.

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.

Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.

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 wanted to automate any part of my life that I could. And the over-the-top solutions are more fun than the useful ones.