Christian Horner Quotes

Manufacturing is more than just putting parts together. It's coming up with ideas, testing principles and perfecting the engineering, as well as final assembly.

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

So I went for engineering, specifically product design, which I enjoyed.

We dried continuously day and night. We had no efficient way to do it, so we built this new popcorn plant.

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

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

Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it.

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

A brilliant mind having a eureka moment could not create an Intel microprocessor containing a billion transistors any more than one person could dream up a Boeing 787 from scratch.

Manufacturing is finite, but human intellect is infinite. Textile is all about manufacturing, and industries like pharmaceuticals are all about human intellect.

The only thing that was in my mind when we made that first phone call was, 'Is it going to work?' We had all these parts hand soldered together, engineers standing by with the soldering iron - just in case.

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.

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

Hard systems are everything we're using right now - computers, phones, planes, the clothes you're wearing, the room you're in. Everything there involves 100% use of technology and expertise to make it, and nothing we make - including space exploration vehicles and so on - is complex. Everything we make is complicated. Nothing is self-renewing.

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

I'm an investor in MakerBot, which is a good example of the 'thingiverse'. The idea of applying collaboration and rapid iteration to things that we interact with and hold in our hands every day is super revolutionary.

It never ceases to amaze me what it takes to develop and bring to mass production a product.

For much of Toyota's history, we have ensured the quality and reliability of our vehicles by placing a device called an andon cord on every production line - and empowering any team member to halt production if there's an assembly problem. Only when the problem is resolved does the line begin to move again.

We believe we've got the skill base and the techniques to supply the chips that really enable the end manufacturers to develop exciting, innovative products themselves.

I do very little industrial design. I'm asked a lot, but I certainly don't see myself as an industrial designer.

I promise to myself I will make cars that work and functions worldwide.

I'm an inventor.

I left Aerospace because I wanted to go build, and put spacecraft together.

My training and my inclination is to invent.