“I need to aspire to be a great CEO and not just a great product engineer.” NeedsProductsEngineersAspireCeo Author:Mark Pincus
“When a manufacturing engineer is hired to create new products but insists on sharing his "wisdom" in accounting with the company controller, he is not going to last long in that company.” LongLastsCompanyProductsEngineersManufacturingAccountingNew ProductsControllers Author:Chin-Ning Chu
“Without investments in research and science that will create the next Apple, create the next new innovation that will sell products around the world, we will lose. If we're not training engineers to make sure that they are equipped here in this country, then companies won't come here. Those investments are what's going to help to make sure that we continue to lead this world economy not just next year, but 10 years from now, 50 years from now, a hundred years from now.” IfsWorldYearsCountryHelpingNextLosesCompanyEconomyThis WorldProductsTrainingResearchHundredInnovationSellsInvestmentAround The WorldApplesEngineersNext YearWorld Economy Author:Barack Obama
“All the businesses from the beginning of history have struggled with product development (assuming there is a market, doing the market testing and so on). But now they start with customer development. Get the customer who says, "Yes. I want that. I need it. I wanna use it. I'll pay for it." And then you go back and work with your engineers. It is changing the world!” WorldWantNeedsUsePayProductsDevelopmentAssumingCustomersChanging The WorldEngineersTestingProduct Development Author:Brian Tracy
“I don't know that I ever wanted greatness, on its own. It seems rather like wanting to be an engineer, rather than wanting to design something--or wanting to be a writer, rather than wanting to write. It should be a by-product, not a thing in itself. Otherwise, it's just an ego trip.” KnowsShouldWritingSeemsWantedDesignGreatnessProductsEgoEngineersEgo Trip Book:Prince of Chaos Source: Prince of Chaos
“Aeroplanes are not designed by science, but by art in spite of some pretence and humbug to the contrary. I do not mean to suggest that engineering can do without science, on the contrary, it stands on scientific foundations, but there is a big gap between scientific research and the engineering product which has to be bridged by the art of the engineer.” MeanArtBigsCan DoProductsResearchFoundationContrarySpiteGapsEngineeringEngineersAeroplanesScientific ResearchPretenceHumbugCivil EngineerCivil Engineering Author:Walter Guido Vincenti
“I noticed a lot of bands always having a few people in the band being interested in recording and audio production, so I got the idea to create products that would appeal to them. Rather than create tools that only engineers could understand, I designed tools that any musician could use and get instant great sounding results.” PeopleIdeasUseResultsProductsBandMusicianToolsProductionsAppealsInstantEngineersAudio Author:Joey Sturgis
“Facebook, when it began, like Google, was very resistant to advertising. They knew, like all - Mark Zuckerberg, like all good engineers, knew that advertising makes the product worse. But, you know, over time, they've been forced to increase the advertising load more and more and more. And the way they advertise is they - it's subtle but they know everything, you know, about everybody on the site.” KnowsWayProductsIncreaseMarkAdvertisingSubtleEngineersLoadGoogleSiteZuckerberg Author:Tim Wu