What are your favorite engineering quotes?

War are your favorite quotes related to engineering? Have you ever come across any in papers, books, texts, etc?

 

This is actually one of my best choices among the many quotes that I found online: “Manufacturing is more than just putting parts together. It's coming up with ideas, testing principles and perfecting the engineering, as well as final assembly.” by James Dyson

 

Thank you Marnie for your reply! I love that quote!

 

Engineering is the art of doing for a dollar what anyone can do for 10.

 

Nikola Tesla - Mechanical Engineer

"Throughout space there is energy. Is this energy static or kinetic! If static our hopes are in vain; if kinetic — and this we know it is, for certain — then it is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature."

 

“When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.”
― William Gibson, Zero History

 

If you design it well the product goes into mass production.
If you don't design it well the product goes into mess production.

 

I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.

 

Design a more fool-proof product; nature will come up with a bigger fool.