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Did he just say that?
During his speech presenting the 2006 Woody Flowers Award this afternoon, I heard Dr. William Murphy say this:
"FIRST was created to give you, the students, an opportunity to interfere with the engineering profession in a constructive way."
Maybe Dr. Murphy intended to say "interact" or "interface". But on further reflection, I think he may have been speaking figuratively -- we geeks know that constructive interference (think waves reflecting off the edges of a tank) is a good thing.
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Richard Wallace
Mentor since 2011 for FRC 3620 Average Joes (St. Joseph, Michigan)
Mentor 2002-10 for FRC 931 Perpetual Chaos (St. Louis, Missouri)
 since 2003
I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
(Cosmic Religion : With Other Opinions and Aphorisms (1931) by Albert Einstein, p. 97)
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