Engineering is treated with disdain, on the whole. It's considered to be rather boring and irrelevant, yet neither of those is true.

James Dyson

Science is about knowing; engineering is about doing.

Henry Petroski

What's nice about having an engineering degree is everybody thinks you are smart.

Ato Essandoh

Engineering stimulates the mind.

Bruce Dickinson

I like engineering, but I love the creative input.

John Dykstra

I am going to design... a Station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc.

Isambard K. Brunel

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

Sean Booth

The walls between art and engineering exist only in our minds.

Theo Jansen

Successful design is not the achievement of perfection but the minimization and accommodation of imperfection.

Henry Petroski

David Hockney

David Hockney

Good design should be honest.

Ferdinand Porsche

Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition.

Freeman Thomas

Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.

Milton Glaser

Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.

Stephen Gardiner

Everyday people are not very good designers.

Donald Norman

Design must be functional, and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained.

Ferdinand Porsche

Good design is good business.

Ian Schrager

Accessible design is good design.

Steve Ballmer

Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it

Miguel de Cervantes

The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.

Harry Bertoia