https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_M._Wellington


Famous Quotation
The famous quotation, 'An engineer can do for a dollar what any fool can do for two," is a shortened version of this statement below, which appears in the introduction to his magnum opus, "The Economic Theory of the Location of Railways," published in 1877:

"It would be well if engineering were less generally thought of, and even defined, as the art of constructing. In a certain important sense it is rather the art of not constructing; or, to define it rudely but not inaptly, it is the art of doing that well with one dollar, which any bungler can do with two after a fashion."[7]



Famous Quotation
The famous quotation, 'An engineer can do for a dollar what any fool can do for two," is a shortened version of this statement below, which appears in the introduction to his magnum opus, "The Economic Theory of the Location of Railways," published in 1877:

"It would be well if engineering were less generally thought of, and even defined, as the art of constructing. 
In a certain important sense it is rather the art of not constructing; or, to define it rudely but not inaptly,
it is the art of doing that well with one dollar, which any bungler can do with two after a fashion."[7]



Death
Wellington died on May 17, 1895, from heart failure following surgery in Manhattan, New York City, at age 47.[1][2][3]