Brianna Wu Quotes

I don't want to be an editor - I want to be really forward about that. I would be a horrible editor.

As you may know, I am a mechanical engineer.

My mum brought me to my first job when I was 12. I started electrical work at her plant. She was an engineer, a technical expert, at one of the plants in the south, and in the summer she brought me in and I learnt how industrial things work: casting, electricity, maintenance, everything.

I'm fearless when it comes to engineering and motors and gears and pulleys and glass and artwork.

All the action, in semiconductors at the present time is in the new consumer applications, and that's where we have focused our activities since we started doing our own products in the late '90s.

I know it's a cliche, but I didn't want to work in an office.

I'm an engineer. I see myself as a toolmaker and the musicians are my customers... They use my tools.

If I could do anything, I'd be an engineer of some sort. I used to build robots.

I don't want to be a director, or to have responsibility for hundreds of people.

I didn't want to be an actress. I wanted to be a dentist, but you never know what life will bring you.

I'm an engineer. I'm a techie, really.

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

I love writing but not crazy meticulous/prepared enough to be a director. I'd work as a gaffer on something.

It would be a disappointment for me to take a job, as often happens, having to shoot out-of-town and not where I live.

My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing, user education.

I've loved some gadgets that were not worthy, and I've loved gadgets that I would have loved more if I had waited for their developers to figure out how to really make them work, but I loved them anyway.

I always wanted to be a medical doctor, and I never thought of business.

To be a lawyer was too boring for me, for my personality.

Right now, if you're a talented developer or designer, government is what you go into if you can't get a better job.

My mother loves to remind me that about the age of four, I made a somewhat formal announcement that I was going to be a plumber when I grew up.

As an engineer, I tended to maintain my own equipment along with developing the processes for it.

I'm not technical.

One of the big failures for the big auto companies is that even the CEO and the top management often don't understand design and manufacturing. As a CEO, you have to make decisions; you need to have knowledge.

I love technology. Matches, to light a fire, is really high tech. The wheel is really one of the great inventions of all time. Other than that, I am an ignoramus about technology.

I've never taken a job on anything I didn't want to do.