Engineering slogans

[UCGL_Guy]

when asked How we are doing are normal reply is
"All we lack is finsishing up"

[kmcclary]

We were chatting at the last team meeting when I came up with a couple of new ones to share:

"Take a man to a FIRST contest and he's entertained for three days. Teach a man to build a FIRST robot, and he's out of your hair for six weeks a year..."

"You know your team's not communicating well when you're invited to appear on Springer..."

- Keith

[Gary Stearns]

Our Engineer says …(insert name) "You did exactly what I said… NOW let’s…

Here we go again Whoo Hoo !!!! Can't wait to start building, just gotta get through all the meetings !!




When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty.
I only think about how to solve the problem.
But when I have finished, if the solutions not beautiful,
I know it is wrong.
-R. Buckminster Fuller, engineer,
designer, and architect (1895-1983)

[Edward Debler]

Here is a quote about engineering that dates back to 1976:

ENGINEERING:

"Engineering is the art of modeling materials we do not wholey understand, into shapes we can not precisely analyze, so as to withstand forces we can not properly assess, in such a way that the public has no reason to suspect the extent of our ignorance"


Dr. A. R. Dykes
British Institute of Structural Engineers
(1976)

[Edward Debler]

Here's another quote from Winston Churchill that also works for engineering:

"Success Is going From Failure to Failure Without Losing Enthusiasm"

Winston Churchill

[Edward Debler]

One more quote that works for engineering:

"WHEN SEARCHING FOR REASONS WHY THINGS GO WRONG,

NEVER RULE OUT SHEER STUPIDITY!"

(AUTHOR UNKNOWN)

[R81Honda]

"That will do... For now I guess"

"Ah just go ahead and run it like it is"

[Adam Y.]

When technology fails, as it will at the wrong time.

Duct tape and bubble gum rules the universe....

[Jon K.]

Mr. Debler, There is an edit function so that you do not have to post replies to yourself within 24 hours(I think) of the original post.

[Edward Debler]

Albert must have also been an engineer since he has been quoted for things that apply to them:

"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
- Albert Einstein

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
- Albert Einstein

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
- Albert Einstein

"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."
- Albert Einstein

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
- Albert Einstein

And my favorite:

"Things should be as simple as possible, but not simpler"
- Albert Einstein

[kmcclary]

One that got a few chuckles around here:

"The only thing more dangerous than a Programmer with a screwdriver is a Hardware Designer with the root password..."

(FYI, "root" is a unix system's "God" account, who has privileges to do ANYTHING to the system and/or other users...)

- Keith

[MacZealot]

Stand within 40 feet of our robot at your own risk!

[Kristophe85]

"If a Dremel can't fix it, it isn't worth fixing"

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Also, our team had a three inch open ended wrench.. we often heard:

"Somebody get the wrench"

[rbayer]

A few more I forgot:

"Excuse me while I run the other direction"

"NO!"

"Set Screws Inhale Audibly" --Wody Flowers

"If at first you don't succeed, maybe you shouldn't be trying."

"None of us is as dumb as all of us" --Despair, Inc.

"Shhh... It's thinking" (refering to computer)

"Everybody Clear! Where's Mark?"

"I meant to do that"

[maDGag]

good enough