You have teenagers thinking they're going to make millions as NBA stars when that's not realistic for even 1 percent of them. Becoming a scientist or engineer is.
A good engineer thinks in reverse and asks himself about the stylistic consequences of the components and systems he proposes.
To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.
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 am an engineer, but what I find important and necessary is that you just learn things as you go along.
When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.
I have been a systems engineer, systems administrator, a senior adviser for the Central Intelligence Agency, a solutions consultant and a telecommunications information systems officer.
Pictures, abstract symbols, materials, and colors are among the ingredients with which a designer or engineer works. To design is to discover relationships and to make arrangements and rearrangements among these ingredients.
My grandfather was an engineer who invented the automatic pilot for airplanes.
There's always something that an engineer can do to make microscopes better.