“Are we to believe that because one is an engineer, one is not preoccupied by beauty in one’s constructions, or that one does not seek to create elegance as well as solidarity and durability?”

“Is it not true that the very conditions which give strength also conform to the hidden rules of harmony?”

    Gustave Eiffel

“Structural Engineering is the art of molding materials we do not wholly understand into shapes we cannot precisely analyze so as to withstand forces we cannot readily assess in such a way that the community at large has no reason to suspect the extent of our ignorance.”

    William LeMessurier

“The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.”

    Frank Lloyd Wright

“A scientist studies what is; an engineer creates what never was.”

    Theodore von Karman

“I build the tower people like, everybody come.”

    Simon ‘Sam’ Rodia