Elon Musk Quotes

More than ever, the world needs good engineers. However, the pool of talent is shrinking not growing.

I'm an engineer.

I've been involved in and out of the U.N. for many years - in fact my first internship was in 1971, so it goes back a couple of years!

I was never a hippy, per se.

I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.

Before I became a game designer, I was a software engineer.

There's a preponderance of scientists and engineers among China's rulers. New President Xi Jinping was trained as a chemical engineer. His predecessor, Hu Jintao, earned a degree in hydraulic engineering. His predecessor, Jiang Zemin, held a degree in electrical engineering.

I see myself as a technical person who chose a great project and a great way of doing that project.

You should make something. You should bring something into the world that wasn't in the world before. It doesn't matter what it is. It doesn't matter if it's a table or a film or gardening-everyone should create. You should do something, then sit back and say, 'I did that.'

I was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on June 15, 1916. My father, an electrical engineer, had come to the United States in 1903 after earning his engineering diploma at the Technische Hochschule of Darmstadt, Germany.

There is no one area of chemical engineering that specifically helped me in my career as an astronaut, it was more the general education in engineering. Also, it was a very difficult and rigorous course. So, it made me strong and resourceful.

I decided to be an inventor when I was five. My parents had given me a few various enrichment toys like erector sets, and for some reason I had the idea that if I put things together just the right way, I could create the intended effect.

I am a mechanical techie. I can build things with my hands.

I enjoy building more than managing.

My father was a construction engineer, and my mother was a production engineer.

I've been in front of a camera since I was a little girl, and that's the medium I understand.

Creating is always so much more stimulating than destroying.

I'm an engineer by trade, and what engineers do is they go and build, and they don't think a lot about storytelling.

What we look for are people that are technically competent. You need a background in a scientific field, whether it's as a scientist, an engineer, medical doctor, or, you know, a person that's in the military with some kind of technical background.

When I became an astronaut, I was an engineer.

I don't see myself as necessarily a very creative person. I'm a technical guy.

I wanted to develop a career where I could use my engineering background to have a positive effect on society.

I'm an engineer by training.

Acting has always been a part of my life as far as I can remember.

I am an engineer and belong to a family of engineers and Cas.