Sasha Sydoruk

Here is a really fun list of engineering quotations. Found on Signal vs Noise.

Here is some of my favorites:

“Professors discussing Engineering Design are like Priests discussing marriage: lots of learned thought, but very little practical experience.”

Professor David Gossard, MIT
at the NSF Design Conference, Amherst, MA, June, 1989

“If a major project is truly innovative, you cannot possibly know its exact cost and its exact schedule at the beginning. And if in fact you do know the exact cost and the exact schedule, chances are that the technology is obsolete.”

Joseph G. Gavin, Jr.,
discussing the design of the Grumman lunar module that landed NASA astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the moon on July 20, 1969.
“Fly Me to the Moon: An Interview with Joseph G. Gavin, Jr.”,
Technology Review , 97:5, July, 1994, Page 62.

“What you need to invent, is an imagination and a pile of junk.”

Thomas Edison,
quoted on National Public Radio,
November, 2001.