Engineering slogans

[Marc P.]

It's all about "love taps" with the hammer.... "don't worry robot, this won't hurt a bit... I just have to get the bearings that expanded and jammed while welding out..."


A part in place each day keeps the engineers at bay.


sleep = Sacrifice Livelyhood for Every Engineer Please.


The pen is mightier than the sword, but the bandsaw can chop them both.

[kacz100]

Close enough for engineering!

[kmcclary]

"When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail..."

[Nick Seidl]

That's just the thing about plastic or brass gears; they tend to morph into plastic or brass washers real fast.

[sprchal]

"Don't think, just drill"

"Guess which finger I'm going to show you?"

[Nick Seidl]

Originally posted by sprchal
"How many breakers must a robot blow, before it will get to the ramp...?

The answer my friend is blowing in the wind...

[J2Kraatz]

On my team we have a saying"Failure is not an option" and "If duct tape can't fix it neither can all kings horses and all the kings men"

[taran86]

"If it jams...force it, if it breaks...it needed fixing anyway"

"dont force it, get a bigger hammer"

and one everyone has heard..."measure with a micrometre, mark it with chalk, and cu with a chainsaw"

[tonyargote]

"Opps"

[scuba_sm]

If it ain't broke, you ain't tryin'

(From the best rolemodel anyone can have.... Red Green)

-S cubed

[Vincent Chan]

Picked this one up along the way, but I love it:

You know you're an engineer if you have no life & can prove it mathematically.

[ItsPat]

Why the *%$#@&#(*$ code wont work:
'Anything that happens, happens.

Anything that, in happening, causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen.

Anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, causes itself to happen again.

It doesnt necesarily do it in chronological order, though.'

-Douglas Adams

And of course, in a 8x8 pit area, 'too many cooks in the kitchen ruin the meal'

[Katy]

Another kind of BIOS error: burrice insistente do operador de sistemas (insistent stupidity of the systems operator)

"The robot is half a pound overweight...that's it CJ no more ones in the code zeros only..."
"...but zeros have more surface area"

(In a loud and very official voice) "disable switch on!"
"...that means it's off right?"

"I think I stuck it in one of the bins"

[AlbertW]

Originally posted by Katy
"I think I stuck it in one of the bins"

reminds me of our predicament in the robotics room. we had a really BIG TABLE in the middle of the room where ALL the parts and tools were

if you were ever looking for something, and someone said "yeah. it's on the table. " you would immediately get a very scared look in your eyes, and go enlist some freshmen to help you for the next hour or so while you rummaged through EVERYTHING on the table (giant pile)

[Kris Verdeyen]

I just heard this one at nationals:

As we were replacing a broken belt and a bad key in (opposite sides of) our robot's drive train, we found out that we had been picked. I said to our driver, who at that moment was lying on his back in a pile of tools underneath a robot with no wheels, "Looks like we got our date for the prom."

To which he responded, "Yeah, but we have nothing to wear."

That cracked me up.