American Engineer

Famous quotes containing the words american and/or engineer:

    As a rule we develop a borrowed European idea forward, and ... Europe develops a borrowed American idea backwards.
    Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

    A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.
    Freeman Dyson (b. 1923)