Hayao Miyazaki Quotes

I like to think about the future and how things can be done better than they are now. That's what engineers do.

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

I'm an inventor.

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

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

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.

I love the new technology. New things give you a reason to want to go to the studio. New challenges mean you have to keep up, you know?

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

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

I am an engineer, not just an architect, so I've always been motivated by technique or technology. As soon as technology moves just a little bit, it changes architecture.

I liked the challenge of designing and building things, figuring out how something works and how to make it better or apply it in a different way.

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

Experience hobbles progress and leads to abandonment of difficult problems; it encourages the initiated to walk on the shady side of the street in the direction of experiences that have been pleasant. Youth without experience attacks the unsolved problems which maturer age with experience avoids, and from the labors of youth comes progress. Youth has dreams and visions, and will not be denied.

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

We know that dreams fuel innovation.

I love working with technology because it allows me to follow my imagination and to invent new things.

Invention is the mother of necessities.

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

Tools arm the man. One can well say that man is capable of bringing forth a world; he lacks only the necessary apparatus, the corresponding armature of his sensory tools. The beginning is there. Thus the principle of a warship lies in the idea of the shipbuilder, who is able to incorporate this thought by making himself into a gigantic machine, as it were, through a mass of men and appropriate tools and materials. Thus the idea of a moment often required monstrous organs, monstrous masses of materials, and man is therefore a potential, if not an actual creator.

Technology makes possibilities. Design makes solutions. Art makes questions. Leadership makes actions.

America demands invention and innovation to succeed.