Creative Engineering Quotes

This is one of my favorites. People think of creativity as this sort of unbridled thing, but engineers thrive on constraints. They love to think their way out of that little box: 'We know you said it was impossible, but we're going to do this, this, and that to get us there.'

Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering. When you finally get done and get to appreciate what you have done it is like a part of yourself that you've put together. I think a lot of the people here feel that way.

Software is definitely engineering. It's different in that we take on novel tasks every time. It's not like building a certain bridge that is virtually identical to some previous bridge or some previous building.

Leonardo Da Vinci combined art and science and aesthetics and engineering, that kind of unity is needed once again.

I'm quite into the idea of engineering being beautiful.

A good engineer thinks in reverse and asks himself about the stylistic consequences of the components and systems he proposes.

Yeah, I think that his great creation was not any one product but a company in which creativity was connected to great engineering. And that will survive at least while the current people who trained under Steve are there.

I took a great joy with inventing new kinds of mechanisms. I invented new kinds of machines. I've been a student of science fiction for a long, long time, and I'm very well-versed in science fact and science fiction.

When they built you brother they broke the mold.

A Rube Goldberg machine is, in its essence, a trial-and-error thing.