No plan survives contact with reality. (Inspired by “No plan survives the first enemy contact”)

Helmuth von Moltke

Can one think that because we are engineers, beauty does not preoccupy us or that we do not try to build beautiful, as well as solid and long lasting structures?

Gustave Alexandre Eiffel

Many people are persistent in relation of the path they have taken, only few in concern of their goal.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

Steve Jobs

The art of making plans consists of pre-empting the difficulties of its completion.

Luc de Clapiers, Marqius des Vauvenargues

Whenever God wants to give us a gift, he wraps it up in a problem.

Norman Vincent Peal

There are more people who surrender, than those who fail.

Henry Ford

I don’t sell future for instant success.

Werner von Siemens

One should never be so busy as to have no time left for contemplation.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg