Ato Essandoh Quotes

My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment - my father is an electromechanical engineer. And so there were lots of engineery things around me.

I know how tough engineering school can really be, but it's worth it.

Many of the most eloquent people I have ever met work in lab coats every day.

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

At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession.

Yes, I was a big math and computer geek, that's true. I was driven by the scholastic side of things. For me, it was all about what I could do with math and computers.

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

I can usually find my own way out of whatever dicey literary or linguistic situations I wander into, but I have to work much harder at the science.

I never had a doubt that I wanted to do engineering.

Relying on nothing but scientific knowledge to produce an engineering solution is to invite frustration at best and failure at worst.

This is a global fight to get the right people in the right place and we're talking about people with PhDs in engineering, computer science, mathematics.

Regardless of any deviations, it was clear I was supposed to end up in math and physics.

I worked with such concentration and focus and I had hundreds of obscure engineering or programming things in my head. I was just real exceptional in that way.

Our managers need to have a strong integration of managerial skills and technical understanding. One cannot substitute for the other.

Technical people tend to be more 'techie,' and management people are more 'managerial.'

Being a scientist/engineer by nature, I approach everything as a problem.

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

Someone who's a really good engineer is someone who's a little bit smarter than you but who also listens to you and doesn't impose agendas.

When I got started in my own engineering course, my interest in physics and maths was very high. After all, engineering is all about applied maths and physics. If I were to learn anything further in physics or mathematics, it simply was not there.

I'm an engineer by training.

I don't naturally have the body language of a software guy.

I'm an engineer.

In order for us to use the very best judgment possible in spending the taxpayer's money intelligently, we just have to do a certain amount of this research and development work ourselves. We just have to keep our own hands dirty to command the professional respect of the contractor personnel engaged with actual design, shop and testing work.

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

Intelligence is a critical thing.