Engineering Quotes Sayings and Quotations

The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a
knight in shining armor to lead all his customers
out of a mire of technological chaos neatly
ignores the fact that it was he who by peddling
second-hand, second-rate technology, led them all
into it in the first place.


It has become appallingly obvious that our
technology has exceeded our humanity ..


Programming today is a race between software
engineers striving to build bigger and better
idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to
produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the
Universe is winning.


Optimist: The glass is half full. Pessimist:
The glass is half empty. Re-engineering
Consultant: That glass is twice as large as it
needs to be.


Any sufficiently advanced technology is
indistinguishable from magic.


When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets
dark, you don't throwaway the ticket and jump off.
You sit still and trust the engineer.


If email had been around before the telephone was
invented, people would have said, "Hey, forget
email! With this new telephone invention I can
actually talk to people!"


The good news: Computers allow us to work 100%
faster. The bad news: They generate 300% more
work.


Optimist: "The glass is half full."
Pessimist: "The glass is half empty."
Engineer: "That glass is twice as large as it
needs to be."


Programming today is a race between software
engineers striving to build bigger and better
idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to
produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the
Universe is winning.


Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If
your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.


The first 90 percent of the code accounts for the
first 90 percent of the development time...The
remaining 10 percent of the code accounts for the
other 90 percent of the development time.