Leroy Chiao Quotes

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.

I love building things like robots, toys, and all of that.

Don't ask me to put up a shelf, but I love engineering.

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

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.

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

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

It's really fun and challenging to build things that have never been built before.

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.

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

I'm an engineer.

I often get asked if I think I'm ever going to build something useful, and maybe someday I will.

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

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

I like building.

I happen to love engineering. I love figuring things out in a spatial sense, that whole realm of working with mechanical parts, and the relationship of the parts, and things like ratios and the speeds of particular objects.

I have always been fascinated by the way things work and how they came to take the form that they did. Writing about these things satisfies my curiosity about the made world while at the same time giving me an opportunity to design a new explanation for the processes that shape it.

I'm an inventor.

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.

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

My explorations of the technical world started with Legos, with which I was quite creative in constructing moving objects with the basic building blocks that were then available.

As a boy, I was deeply interested in scientific ideas, electrical and mechanical, and I read almost everything I could find on the subject. I was attracted more by the hardware and construction aspects than by the scientific issues.

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.

Engineering stimulates the mind.