Funny Engineering Quotes
1. “Hates essays so becomes engineer.. mandatory arts elective…” — Unknown
2. “Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.” — Scott Adams
3. “Normal people… believe that if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain’t broke, it doesn’t have enough features yet.” — Scott Adams
4. “I’m an engineer by trade, and what engineers do is they go and build, and they don’t think a lot about storytelling.” — Travis Kalanick
5. “She can cook and she is an enginer.” —Unknown
6. “Majors in mechanical engineering, talks down to civil engineering friends about how easy their major is. ” — Unknown
7. “Social engineering, the fancy term for tricking you into giving away your digital secrets, is at least as great a threat as spooky technology.”— Unknown
8. “Engineering is the science of economy, of conserving the energy, kinetic and potential, provided and stored up by nature for the use of man. It is the business of engineering to utilize this energy to the best advantage, so that there may be the least possible waste.” — Unknown
9. “Inventions are smarter than their inventors.” — Unknown
10. “I had no talent for science. What was infinitely worse: all my fraternity brothers were engineers.” — Kurt Vonnegut
11. “Daddy will I ever have free time? No son we are engineers.” — Unknown
12. “After four years of engineering, say hello to my little friend.” — Unknown
13. “Engineers trying to fall asleep, be like….” — Unknown
14. “I didn’t choose the engineer life, the engineer life chose me.” — Unknown
15. “Hackathons are these things where just all of the Facebook engineers get together and stay up all night building things. And, I mean, usually at these hackathons, I code too, just alongside everyone.” — Mark Zuckerberg
16. “P.H.D in electrical engineering, made the world laugh without saying a word!” — Unknown
17. “Understands heat transfers, still burns popcorn.” — Unknown
18. “When you finally become an engineer and realize engineers are not rich. My whole life is a lie.” — Unknown
19. “You can choose what ever field you want to study….in engineering.” — Unknown
20. “At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession.” — Unknown
21. “When you want to know how things really work, study them when they’re coming apart.”— Unknown
22. “But remember this, Japanese boy airplanes are not tools for war. They are not for making money. Airplanes are beautiful dreams. Engineers turn dreams into reality.” Unknown
23. “Science is about knowing, engineering is about doing.” — Unknown
24. “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” — Unknown
25. “The problem in this business isn’t to keep people from stealing your ideas, it’s making them steal your ideas!” — Unknown
26. “A pessimist says the glass is half empty, an optimist says the glass is half full, and an engineer says the glass is too big.” — Unknown
27. “Engineering is the continuation of politics by other means.” — Unknown
28. “Engineering is the professional art of applying science to the optimum conversion of natural resources to the benefit of man.” — Unknown
29. “The fewer moving parts, the better. Exactly. No true words were ever spoken in the context of engineering.” —Unknown
30. “Engineering is the art of organizing and directing men and controlling the forces and materials of nature for the benefit of the human race.” — Unknown
31. “Engineering without imagination sinks to a trade.” — Unknown
32. “Engineering is not only study of 45 subjects but it is moral studies of intellectual life.” — Unknown
33. “Incurable diseases will eventually force mankind to justify disruptive nanotech and genetic engineering.” — Unknown
34. “Kevyn, Ennesby tells me you are building a time machine.” — Unknown
35. “As in real life, complex engineering designs demand a pragmatic approach.” — Unknown
36. “Your test equipment is lying to you and it is your job to figure out how.” — Unknown
37. “Math is my passion. Engineering is my profession.” — Unknown
38. “Great triumphs of engineering genius the locomotive, the truss bridge, the steel rail is rather invention than engineering proper.” — Unknown
39. “What’s nice about having an engineering degree is everybody thinks you are smart.” — Unknown
40. “The history of engineering is really the history of breakages, and of learning from those breakages. I was taught at college the engineer learns most on the scrapheap.” — Unknown
41. “I’m quite into the idea of engineering being beautiful.” — Unknown
42. “Engineering is the art and science of nuts and bolts.” — Unknown
43. “The trick to having good ideas is not to sit around in glorious isolation and try to think big thoughts. The trick is to get more parts on the table.” — Unknown
44. “The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.” — Unknown
45. “Engineering is achieving function while avoiding failure.” — Unknown
56. “Unfortunately, humans have a long history of trying to fix their engineering mistakes with more engineering mistakes!” — Unknown
47. “In engineering, the joints are the most crucial. They have to be both firm and flexible, exactly like the joints in our body.” — Unknown
48. “Engineering is the art of doing that well with one dollar which any bungler can be with two after a fashion.” — Unknown
49. “A scientist can discover a new star but he cannot make one. He would have to ask an engineer to do it for him.” — Unknown
50. “Nothing is so inspiring as seeing big works well laid out and planned and a real engineering organization.” — Unknown
