"This is a working device"

"I'm not sure how it's going to work though, but we'll make it work"

-Tim, our driver and build team member

"are u sure the wiring is right , tom?"
"yea i double checked it, all u have to do is push this switch" *fry's OI*
"oops now that wasnt suppose to happen"

a brief excerpt from the conversation w/ many people when i fried the OI and the begining of this year

"OMG the victor, the drill motor, we can't do anything right!"

I am not mentioning what team said that to me, but they know who they are. lol

We have nothing to lose, if we break there's always tomorrow, and if we don't win I'm blaming your driving.

-Me to our Driver when we were partners with 71 in the Curie division (great match guys)

Did You say that to our driver??

no I said it to OUR driver (on 713). We were just your partners that match.

once again great match

Some 1073 Favorites....
 

And now... some rookie favorites.

"It's a mechanical problem."--control subteam

"When all else fails, blame it on controls"--design subteam

"CLAMP! CLAMP! CLAMP! CLAMP!" -- In response to another "battle cry" at the Granite State Regional

"Guys.... who has the controls....?" -- Janice (Strategy Mentor) while watching our prototype bot drive towards the wall under it's own sentient control. This was followed by 3 students leaping to their feet, and chasing it across the gym lobby.

"Widget!"

"Lefty-loosy, righty...oww!!"

"Just FORCE it" -- The unnoficial team motto

"Time circuts and orange juice" -- Jeff

"This... is a bot. Soon it will be a was-bot, but now it is an is-bot. When we finish the real bot, the is-bot will be a was-bot and the will-bot will be the is-bot." -- Various Controls members walking to the Gym Lobby to test the prototype.

"It's the ghost of the Prototype!" -- a common phrase after the runaway robot episode.

"Help! I glued my hand to the robot!"

"Your brother must be God!"
 

This apparently was told to my brother Rick (referring to me).

As I understand it the conversation went like this:

Team 1164 (thanking him for sharing his engineering skills): "Rick, you must have been sent from Heaven..."

Rick: "No, my brother sent me." (This part is true, I did tell him about the team starting up down the street from him.)

Team 1164: "Then your brother must be God." (Not even close to being right)

I think it's kind of a cool thank you to get from a team on the other end of the country. I'm glad that I could help.

Our FIRST engineer upon finding out that 573 (which originally was an all-guys team due to the fact that Brother Rice is an all-guys school) was accepting girls from Rice's sister school, and seeing me in the pits during the OCCRA season...

::Points at me:: "Yay! It's a girl!"

:D

weird one
 

this was a weird one but one day out of many work days a teammate of mine came over and said
" I need to work, but I really have to pee"
I then looked at her with a "what" face
she then asked
"Can I use the bathroom"
I begin to crack up
"ya.... go"

this is kinda a story, but its still funny

we were at the airport on the way to nationals and we decided to take a team picture. so of course everyone gives their camera in to get a picture on it. one of our mentors picked up a camera (which just happenned to be mine) and tried to take a picture with it. and he was like "it's not working" so everyone was like "turn the camera around", because it was backwards. and then he turned it around, and was like, "its still not working" and everyone was like "open the shutter" it took him a while, but he finally got it.

you might not find it funny, but it was really funny at the time, and when i brought my camera to school the other day, we were all laughing at that.

If you've ever seen 814's bot, you'll get this a little better...
This is from the robotics party the team had yesterday:

Mr Gant: Hey, you guys...I dare you to build a wooden bot next year.
Greg: Mr Gant, find a conductive wood and we'll use it for wiring.

I just remembered this one...

David Kelly: "(in reference to animation) Are you gonna get it done in time?"

Me: "I'll have something ready."

there's a chance someone from my team has already posted this, but seeing as its not too plausible to go through 11 pages of quotes, i'll just say it.

during lunch at the rutgers regional, about 6 members of our team went to some fast food restaurant to grab something to eat. it was a few blocks away, so we walked. on our way, a parked truck driver sees our (really, really bright) hawaiian shirts and asks if we're on a team or something. we go through a quick explanation, and one girl says, and im paraphrasing: "we build robots that kill people, except without the killing people part." i think we might've scared him a little.

My favorite quotes from our team this season would have to be "sneaker", "poke", "where's the bot?", "goodnight for the twelfth time", and that strange noise that only Jackson can make.:yikes: Also "where's mrs. rumble?" after we accidently left her at the houston airport