Experience is called the sum of all our mistakes.
Thomas Alva Edison
Ingenious people start great works, diligent people finish them.
Leonardo da Vinci
It is no drama, if the project doesn’t go according to plan. It is a drama, if the project manager doesn’t know anything about it.
Peter Hobbs
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
Henry Ford
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
An investment in knowledge still bears the best interests.
Benjamin Franklin
The secret to success is constancy of purpose.
Benjamin Disraeli
No plan survives contact with reality. (Inspired by “No plan survives the first enemy contact”)
Helmuth von Moltke
One should never be so busy as to have no time left for contemplation.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Aren’t the genuine functions of strength always in keeping with unwritten conditions of harmony?
Gustave Alexandre Eiffel