Engineering slogans

[Matt Attallah]

Well, for our team, we had "Our Robot Sucks."

Literally, it did. (We created a vacuum using the pneumatic cylinders)

[Katy]

Originally posted by Aonic
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)

We had something we named last year "the closet of unspeakable horrors." Take a guess what that place is like, its got parts of Rainmaker 1 back in there (from 4 years ago).

[Vincent Chan]

From the book Syrup by Maxx Barry--

"I read somewhere that the average adult has three million-dollar ideas per year."

"So everybody's got ideas. Ideas are cheap. What's unique is the conviction to follow through: to work at it until it pays off. That's what separates the person who thinks I wonder why they can't just make shampoo and conditioner in one? from the one who thinks Now, should I get the Mercedes, or another BMW?"

Gets ya thinking, don't it?

[Carolyn Duncan]

To paraphrase Ken K, "FIRST isn't about building robots that can compete. It's about building people who can go out into society and produce something that is worth while."

[Solace]

"If it works, its obviously not complicated enough"

[Kyle]

when ever some one says something like, "you can't do that" or "that can't fit in that space" or "I bet you wont...."
my response is always

"Is that a challenge..."

[Joe3]

Originally posted by Kyle
when ever some one says something like, "you can't do that" or "that can't fit in that space" or "I bet you wont...."
my response is always

"Is that a challenge..."

Joe: "You (Kyle) won't jump in the pool with your clothes on."
Kyle: "Is that a challange?"
Joe: "Yup."

Kyle walks around with wet boots for the next three days at nationals.

[Joe Matt]

The Law of Need:

If you go to a store looking for something you NEED, it won't be there. If you pass by a store that you think won't have it, it will.

The Law of Asking:

The one person you ask won't know, the one you don't ask will.

[118 Tech]

"Everytime you integrate, god kills a kitten."

Somethign to think about.

Not really an engieering one but if you are going for an engineering degree, you will be killing kittens by proxy alot.

Credit to my Cal 3 Prof, apparently some people in the dept have some poster with this on it.

[Erin Rapacki]

The Engineer Postulate:

Time Expected x 3 = Time Actual

-I noticed that if i needed something done in a day, it was done in 3 days
-If i said meet me in an hour, it was usually dragged onto 3 hours later

so use this to your advantage, if you need something done in an hour, say you need it in 20 minutes!

It works so well!

ByE

erin

[Joe Matt]

Engineering Rule #20423a

It will take 5x as many newbies to complete something than a seasoned vet, yet they will still do it wrong.

Engineering Rule #1394k

No matter how good you are in math, you always will have a mistake that you missed.

[Kyle]

Originally posted by Joe3
Joe: "You (Kyle) won't jump in the pool with your clothes on."
Kyle: "Is that a challange?"
Joe: "Yup."

Kyle walks around with wet boots for the next three days at nationals.

Ha, they were only wet for 2 days, i took off my water prof watch and my MOE bandanna but not the boots, meh, it was nice having that squeaking sound when i walked around.

[kmcclary]

Not really a "slogan" per se, but IMHO an interesting commentary on the entire fields of Science and Engineering. BTW... Consider that this quote comes from 19th Century:

"By his machines man can dive and remain under water like a shark; can fly like a hawk in the air; can see atoms like a gnat; can see the system of the universe of Uriel, the angel of the sun; can carry whatever loads a ton of coal can lift; can knock down cities with his fist of gunpowder; can recover the history of his race by the medals which the deluge, and every creature, civil or savage or brute, has involuntarily dropped of its existence; and divine the future possibility of the planet and its inhabitants by his perception of laws of nature." - Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher, Letters and Social Aims, "Resources" (1876)

- Keith

[Eric Reed]

kmcclary, this one was GOLD and bears repeating:

> All the water in the world cannot sink the smallest ship unless it gets inside


Now for my own (stolen) slogan...does no one else say "Make it So?"

And my original...if it looks cheesy, it is cheesy. Sorry poofs.

Eric.

[shyra1353]

Originally posted by Al Skierkiewicz
Let us not forget that the missing tool is always in the last place you look.

of course it is always in the last place you look... why would you keep looking after you have found it??