35 Movie Quotes about Engineering (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: May 22, 2026

Memorable quotes about engineering, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 Mm. First thing we're going to need is a larger-than-usual wrench.

Michael Gough as Gopher in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

2 I'll never get this boneheaded contraption to work!

Rex Everhart as Maurice in Beauty and the Beast (1991)

3 No wonder this circuit failed. It says, Made in Japan.

Christopher Lloyd as Dr. Emmett Brown in Back to the Future Part III

4 Talk about your slipshod construction. Try putting in a basement, and the whole place comes down.

Michael Gough as Gopher in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

5 There. Quality construction. Meets all the modern standards. Should hold up against fallen skies.

Peter Cullen as Eeyore in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

6 The two sprocket lockers were unscrewed from the lock sprocket sockets.

Quote from Jetsons: The Movie (1990)

7 We aren't dealing with ordinary machines here. These are highly complicated pieces of equipment, almost as complicated as living organisms. In some cases, they've been designed by other computers.

Quote from Westworld (1973)

8 And our spirit remains in every program we designed for this computer.

Quote from TRON (1982)

9 This is our chance. I've always wanted to engendineer a train.

Paul Winchell as Tigger; Jim Cummings as Winnie The Pooh in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

10 Tony Stark was able to build this in a cave! With a box of scraps!

Jeff Bridges as Obadiah Stane in Iron Man (2008)