Engineering slogans

[Doug]

oh and my motto for life "THINK the safe way is the best way"

[scuba_sm]

Our software doesn't have bugs, it simply develops random features....


If it falls off, it obviously wasn't important, or it would have been attached better....

It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye...then it's fun and games in the dark...

-Steve

[TommyT]

I've always liked

theres never enough time to do it right, but theres plenty of time to do it twice


and


if its not broke, theres not enough features

if something doesn't fit, I usually just say you have to lie to it a little bit.

[sanddrag]

It'll find a happy place.

BAH = Big @$$ Holes - Allows for some slop for everthing to fit perfectly every time.

If it doesn't fit you didn't drill the holes big enough.

Looks straight to me.

If there's no tolerance listed, just assume it's a quarter inch or so.


Hey, can we get a list of all these on CD sort of like the spotlight list?

[TerryDolan]

Our team particularly likes to use the phrase PFM - Pure Flipping Magic to describe anything that has anything at all to do with electronics. We also use the "it can be fixed in software" phrase all the time during our fabrication and design.

I really liked Woddie's "Mother nature does not give partial credit" during the kickoff.

In the fab shop we also go with "Slop is good" - at least to an extent. On the same token, if something is too tight to fit together we say that it was machined accurate to the nearest atom. When a part comes out too inaccurate to use we say that it was made with ¼ inch accuracy on an 1/8 inch part.

We also always result back to the simple K.I.S.S. principal.

[60s_Puma]

"worry about thie ounces and let the pounds worry about themselves."
-George Williams
60's machinist

What sipmle logic right, and the best part, it works 60 has never had to make a robot that looks like swiss cheese thanks to this philosophy.

[aakash30]

please send me some slogan for instrumentation and control engineering.
u can mail me at : aakash30@hotmail.com
thanx a lot everyone...hope u guys will help me out.

[Matt Adams]

While I was talking to another student in one of my engineering classes, I was telling her that she's lucky to be in a major with such great odds, namely the high guy to girl ratio.

She countered with something along the lines of...

Yes, the odds are good... but the goods are odd!

It definitely made me crack up.

Matt

[Joe J.]

This is an old favorite from my team:
"Good enough for government work"

This is a new one from this year:
"Shut Up and Build"

These two are common statements from last year:
"Our first priority is Plan B."

"Well I can't get it to work." "Crush it in the vice and call it a day."

Then you have to include this one:
"God help us we're in the hands of engineers." Ian Malcolm, Jurassic Park, 1993

[Kate00]

"If it can't survive being thrown out the window, then it's not going to survive competition"

[S.Nickens]

You can't polish a turd.

[FAKrogoth]

What sipmle logic right, and the best part, it works 60 has never had to make a robot that looks like swiss cheese thanks to this philosophy. [/b]

Aaah, you guys just don't have macheesemo

[Al Skierkiewicz]

Here's one from our transmitter supervisor...
"Remember, at one time, even Thomas Edison didn't know what electricity was!"

[ChewyMasterFlex]

Duct tape will save us all
and
Destroy them All! Rise to the Communist Manifesto! Rise and Shine!
and
Try, Try Again, and if all else fails, destroy all evidence that you tried.
and (refer to FIRST slogan below)