Donald Pleasence 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.

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

I do not write, I build.

I just wondered how things were put together.

It has always been my dream to work for a manufacturer team.

F1's ability to problem-solve is second to none and our ability to make rapid prototype parts is again second to none.

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.

When you make something, cleaning it out of structural debris is one of the most vital things you do.

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

The design of each element should be thought out in order to be easy to make and easy to repair.

I love working out how things are made, which is why I have so many models of towers.

Manufacturing doesn't just mean building cars and metal-bashing; it includes making pharmaceuticals and hi-tech electronics. A crucial part of the process is the research and development that allows better and greener products to come to market. Britain has traditionally had a strong science and engineering base.

Building is just skilled labor, I suppose. It's a lot of work. I don't mind other people building them, but the way things go together and are made is interesting to me; I like that a lot.

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

I was much more interested in making things than in designing them.

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

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

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

In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.

I've always enjoyed seeing how things are made.

We must produce a true American motor, a true American plane.

The key to making things affordable is design and technology improvements, as well as scale.

Often when I talk about what I do, making isn't just this inevitable function tacked on at the end.

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