I'm an engineer. I see myself as a toolmaker and the musicians are my customers... They use my tools.
Robert Moog

In the last 17 years of his working life, my father was finally rewarded with having landed a great job as first, a maintenance engineer, and then a senior locksmith with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Tony Visconti

Most of the work performed by a development engineer results in failure.
Koichi Tanaka

My background is in physics, so I was the mission specialist, who is sort of like the flight engineer on an airplane.
Sally Ride

My father worked for governments all his life as an engineer and public works director.
Edward Tufte

My father, a mining engineer and colliery manager, gave his brood many advantages not least of which, for me, was his love of singing which gave music a central place in our lives.
James W. Black

My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918.
James Rainwater

My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldn't understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be a chicken farmer.
David Antin

My mother was a housewife but she was also an artist. My father was an electrical engineer.
James Cameron

My parents, and especially my mother, encouraged by the director of the local school which I was attending, wanted in spite of everything to send me to a National School of Arts and Crafts so that I could later become an engineer.
Leon Jouhaux

My training as an engineer has enabled me to design the stuff, but the reason I do it is not to make music but for the opportunity to work with musicians.
Robert Moog

People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk.
Gary Oldman

So here we have pi squared, which an engineer would call 10.
Frank King

So I just got on the phone and the engineer just patched me in and I did reports. I'd get a community leader and bring him to the phone, call up the station and do an interview over the phone with the guy.
Ed Bradley

Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.
Jamie Zawinski

The Biblical world view sees Earth and its ecosystems as the effect of a wise God's creation and... therefore robust, resilient, and self-regulating, like the product of any good engineer.
Christopher Monckton

The Engineer Corps is charged with all construction, including light railways and roads.
Kelly Miller

The engineer, and more generally the designer, is concerned with how things ought to be - how they ought to be in order to attain goals, and to function.
Herbert Simon

The writer is the engineer of the human soul.
Joseph Stalin

To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.
Alexander Calder