Nolan Bushnell Quotes

I like building.

Everybody trades off in some sense or another.

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

Studying engineering was natural for me; I was always interested in technology and building things.

I'm an engineer by trade, and what engineers do is they go and build, and they don't think a lot about storytelling.

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

I don't see any difference between architecture and engineering. It's the same profession.

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

A scientist builds in order to learn; an engineer learns in order to build.

There are no solutions; there are only trade-offs.

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

I tell you, it is easier to build a grand opera or a city center than to build a personal house.

I think I have more in common with a carpenter than you might think. We're putting things together.

I like to build things. I like to do things.

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.

I just wondered how things were put together.

Building a house is like producing a movie. There's no right way to do it but a lot of wrong ways. You have to be flexible and creative. You have to move fast, be prepared - or it quickly becomes costly.

Speaking as a builder, if you start something, you must have a vision of the thing which arises from your instinct about preserving and enhancing what is there.

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

Because every design must satisfy competing objectives, there necessarily has to be compromise among, if not the complete exclusion of, some of those objectives, in order to meet what are considered the more important of them.

A true architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. They take a diverse number of stakeholders, extract needs, concerns, and dreams, then create a beautiful yet tangible solution that is loved by the users and the community at large. We create vessels in which life happens.

A designer is someone who constructs while he thinks, someone for whom planning and making go together.

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