Quote: stages of product development -- concept and brainstorming, refinement to weed out implausible solutions, realization of the product, production in high volume [»colwRP_2006]

Quote: a project must have crystal-clear goals; answer the questions, what constitutes sucess and what constitutes failure [»colwRP_2006]

Quote: the art of all engineering is compromise, trading one thing for another

Quote: programmers should be required to use engineering practices that prevent latent execution failures [»cobbRH11_1990]

Quote: only through failure can engineers advance the state of the art; success alone gives insufficient information [»abraP12_1986]

Quote: in a mature engineering discipline, 'reliable' never means 'perfect' [»demiRA_1977]

Quote: engineering failures are disproofs of design hypotheses [»abraP12_1986]

Quote: how do engineers create reliable structures from imperfect mechanisms [»demiRA5_1979]

Quote: the trade-off in structural engineering is been sufficient safety and economy [»abraP12_1986]

Quote: pilot plants are used extensively in chemical engineering; used for working out details between developers and clients [»rzevG_1984]

Quote: a prototype in engineering is a phase of the production process where a model is built for testing and guidance; not applicable to software [»floyC_1984]

Quote: most engineering and scientific problems consist of initiate, perform, communicate result with optional repetition until acceptable [»perlAJ4_1957]

Quote: the control engineer dreams of having a computer in every control loop; microcontrollers make this possible [»controleng]

Quote: software engineering will remain a craft until able to develop building-block software [»fairRE_1985]

Quote: engineers limit the amount of innovation in a design by recycling; increases safety [»demiRA_1977]

Quote: engineers depend on theorems when they 'plug in' a value and rely on a particular physical interpretation of the result [»demiRA_1977]

Quote: modern engineering practice rests on a bedrock of reusable things such as I-beams; programming does not [»gordRM3_1990]

Quote: should certify software engineers for safety-critical software [»leveNG7_1993]

Quote: engineering economy is a fundamental component of engineering; it is ignored in software education and practice [»tockS11_1997]

Quote: by 1890 personal gasoline engines were available; the car made them useful and transformed the world [»heyeM_1986]