David Milne Quotes

Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.

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

Hard systems are everything we're using right now - computers, phones, planes, the clothes you're wearing, the room you're in. Everything there involves 100% use of technology and expertise to make it, and nothing we make - including space exploration vehicles and so on - is complex. Everything we make is complicated. Nothing is self-renewing.

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

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.

I like to come up first of all with a free idea, thinking about and obviously understanding what is necessary for it to become a car.

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

I just wondered how things were put together.

Most of the fans have ideas about their perfect phone. But many of them can't do it because building a phone is tough. So they would give us feedback about the features that they think should be included in our next model. And if we incorporated that in our new phone, they will share the good news with their friends.

There's always something that an engineer can do to make microscopes better.

My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers.

In the end, I hope there's a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer.

Now we shall see whether I can build anything but automobiles, tractors and ships.

Strive for perfection … Take the best that exists and make it better. When it does not exist, design it.

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

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

If I look to any company as a model, it's Apple. They're a brilliant design company working to create a lifestyle.

That's the great thing about Apple: it's very focused on the things that we know how to do very well and not try to extend ourselves to areas that we know very little about or don't have a lot of expertise in.

A brilliant mind having a eureka moment could not create an Intel microprocessor containing a billion transistors any more than one person could dream up a Boeing 787 from scratch.

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

The notion of what we're trying to do at AMD is about bringing out great technology, great products.

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

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

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

If technology is designed mostly by white males, who make up roughly half our population, we're missing out on the innovation, solutions, and creativity that a broader pool of talent can bring to the table.