"Quotes" that were said during build season

[BrendanB]

Originally Posted by EricH

That's only if a) they don't have their caffeine and/or b) if they are keeping the drivers away from practice by making "just one more change, it'll only take a second" and/or c) if their code manages to make the robot self-destruct without a driver at the controls.

The rest of the time, it's probably the controller or the programming computer.

That is my favorite quote!

[Phoenix Spud]

Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber

Are we talking about the control system here?

You kids with your fancy wireless code downloads and LabVIEW. Back in my day we used to have to use 15-pin connectors... both ways...and in pbasic.

Nope, safety animation meeting! (which makes it even funnier...)

[Bethie42]

Said by me, whilst complaining about the fact that 1/3 of our team is in drama, the school play is this week, and they subsequently can't help with fundraising for the ominously-approaching payment deadline [my friend promptly exclaimed 'Quote!!']

'Why do people gotta have a life outside of robotics?'

[J93Wagner]

Originally Posted by Bethie42

'Why do people gotta have a life outside of robotics?'

That is a very good question...

For a another quote, I can't remember who made it (no one on our team actually made it, just referenced it), but it goes like this: "Nobody leaps a twenty foot chasm in two ten foot leaps."

You could also say that that quote describes the mindset of our team this year. No excessive dawdling, just get stuff done on all fronts.

[demosthenes2k8]

"Found it!" (About the harder way that must exist to do everything)

From a Science Olympiad coach to me and another SO member who do FRC: "We have a competition on January 28th. I know you're not going to get any work done between the 8th and the 28th, so you might want to start early."

"We don't care about Christmas, we like Kickoff better."
"Can we each bring a Kickoff present for each other?"

[apalrd]

"I can't find [part]! I've been looking for it for like 10 minutes now"
"It's literally two feet from where you started, you just didn't see it because it's clear [polycarbonate]"


Matt [driver] on programming:
"Palardy does something, and Jim says 'More gain', and Palardy does something, and says 'Less gain'."
"Then Palardy flashes the robot and it works"
(He clearly dosen't understand all that goes into programming)


Me: "One of the balls is deflated. We need to tell the refs. What should we do?"
Caroline(Mom): "What would Jim do?"
Me: "He would go yelling at the head ref until they did something"
Mom: "OK lets not do that. What would Tim do?"
Me: "He would calmly go and talk to the refs until the situation was resolved"

[demosthenes2k8]

Me: "Umm...that's a Trackball. They're rather heavy. I hope you don't want to throw that at me."
*THUD*
(Said in my gym class when my classmates found a Trackball in the...gym closet?)

[216Robochick288]

Originally Posted by Bethie42

'Why do people gotta have a life outside of robotics?'

I posted this as my status on Facebook and had about 10 RoboDawGs answer within 10 seconds, "Whats a life?"

[pSYeNCe]

I've read so many quotes from or about "Palardy" on here, I really want to meet this guy! He sounds awesome! (Well, everyone on an FRC team is awesome by default, but... you know what i mean.)

[J93Wagner]

This definitely wasn't said by someone on a FIRST team but I think it sorta sums up the attitude of most FIRSTer's concerning FIRST.

"There is nothing cooler than being proud of the things you love." - Sean "Day[9]" Plott

[Gir_450]

Our team captain last year had blond moments and whenever he made a screw up he would always say

"Don't judge me, I'm blond!"

[onecoolc]

"If any team is missing their robot, it is at the scoring desk in the arena. I repeat: if you are missing your robot, it is at the scoring desk in the arena!"

I was pit announcer for an FLL tournament. XD Seeing that these robots were measured in inches rather than feet it's far less impressive, but the announcement was still eyebrow-raising.

[chemipanda]

Programmer: the robot isn't working again.
(mentor walks in)
Mentor: Well I can tell you this much it is not a hardware issue its your code.
Programmer: No its hardware because my code its right
(mentor looks at screen)
Mentor: There is no code in the robot.
Programmer: oh...

That happened many times this past year.

[sithmonkey13]

As one senior had written an essay for scholarship, he had one of the teachers who help the team read over it to make some corrections. Almost immediately after walking away, the teacher goes: "I found a mistake. You say 'My life in FIRST" and you really mean 'My life is FIRST.'"

[cbeavers6790]

My favorite is from two years ago for lunacy. we used potentiometers to keep our crab drive from moving too far and we kept on smoking them....so we constantly smoked the POT at robotics and our electronics mentor kept on mentioning that he had a good dealer near our competitions