Russell Johnson Quotes

The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials - literally, which is why I'm teaching at MIT.

I don't have any degrees. I went to Hunter College one year and New York University another year. It's just on the basis of my books that I've been hired at any of the places I've been.

The idea of engineering is an idea of mastery. And today the role that we are being asked to play is a role based on informed humanity.

I built a steel plant from the grassroots, so I learned all the nuts and bolts. When there was a problem, I would be able to guide them, though I am not a technical person.

Engineering stimulates the mind.

For a man with an impressive educational C.V., Ben Carson makes a lot of intellectual missteps.

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.

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

I just want people to be excited about hard stuff, that's what engineering is.

I'm an engineer.

I'm really not handy. I'm not good at things like changing a light bulb. If something is broken, the chances of me being able to fix it are slim to none.

You can't participate in agriculture or redesign of aircraft for making them safer if you know nothing about it. So, whenever a person says 'will I be participating in the new world?' Only in areas that you can participate it. Areas that you have competence in. I'm not talking about self confidence, I'm talking about the ability to solve problems. Electrical, chemical, technical. I don't know of any other kind of problem.

I've had training in electronics engineering, of all things, and in languages. But I've never taken any degree, something I share with Lewis Mumford, I think.

I wish the country had fewer lawyers and more engineers.

I'm actually an engineer.

No one has ever asked to see my degree certificate.

My mom's a chemist, so she's pretty smart. I love technology and I can handle myself around a computer.

No matter what you choose, build stuff and be around smart people.

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

A man who cannot think is not an educated man however many college degrees he may have acquired.

Some felt I'm not academically qualified, and they're right.

My Master of Arts degree means nothing at all to these monkeys and I have come to share their indifference.

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

The available worlds looked pretty grim. They had little to offer him because he had little to offer them. He had been extremely chastened to realize that although he originally came from a world which had cars and computers and ballet and Armagnac, he didn't, by himself, know how any of it worked. He couldn't do it. Left to his own devices he couldn't build a toaster. He could just about make a sandwich and that was it.

While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.