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Re: Quotes: Of precision and beauty.
Posted by Kris Verdeyen at 04/30/2001 5:06 PM EST
Engineer on team #118, Robonauts, from CCISD and NASA - Johnson Space Center and Friends.
In Reply to: We band of brothers (and some other good quotes for FIRST)
Posted by Scott England on 04/30/2001 3:46 PM EST:
When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty … but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-R Buckminster Fuller (On the purpose of aesthetics in engineering)
In total desperation, I called over to the engineering building, and I said, “Please cut off a nanosecond and send it over to me.”
-Grace Murray Hopper ( On using a piece of wire to represent maximum distance that electricity could travel in a billionth of a second)
We're not building a watch here.
-Gerald Miller, My Dad, and me. (On the dangers of overprecision)
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