Engineering slogans

[Katy]

Another kind of BIOS error: burrice insistente do operador de sistemas (insistent stupidity of the systems operator)

"The robot is half a pound overweight...that's it CJ no more ones in the code zeros only..."
"...but zeros have more surface area"

(In a loud and very official voice) "disable switch on!"
"...that means it's off right?"

"I think I stuck it in one of the bins"

[AlbertW]

Originally posted by Katy
"I think I stuck it in one of the bins"

reminds me of our predicament in the robotics room. we had a really BIG TABLE in the middle of the room where ALL the parts and tools were

if you were ever looking for something, and someone said "yeah. it's on the table. " you would immediately get a very scared look in your eyes, and go enlist some freshmen to help you for the next hour or so while you rummaged through EVERYTHING on the table (giant pile)

[Kris Verdeyen]

I just heard this one at nationals:

As we were replacing a broken belt and a bad key in (opposite sides of) our robot's drive train, we found out that we had been picked. I said to our driver, who at that moment was lying on his back in a pile of tools underneath a robot with no wheels, "Looks like we got our date for the prom."

To which he responded, "Yeah, but we have nothing to wear."

That cracked me up.

[Matt Attallah]

Well, for our team, we had "Our Robot Sucks."

Literally, it did. (We created a vacuum using the pneumatic cylinders)

[Katy]

Originally posted by Aonic
reminds me of our predicament in the robotics room. we had a really BIG TABLE in the middle of the room where ALL the parts and tools were

if you were ever looking for something, and someone said "yeah. it's on the table. " you would immediately get a very scared look in your eyes, and go enlist some freshmen to help you for the next hour or so while you rummaged through EVERYTHING on the table (giant pile)

We had something we named last year "the closet of unspeakable horrors." Take a guess what that place is like, its got parts of Rainmaker 1 back in there (from 4 years ago).

[Vincent Chan]

From the book Syrup by Maxx Barry--

"I read somewhere that the average adult has three million-dollar ideas per year."

"So everybody's got ideas. Ideas are cheap. What's unique is the conviction to follow through: to work at it until it pays off. That's what separates the person who thinks I wonder why they can't just make shampoo and conditioner in one? from the one who thinks Now, should I get the Mercedes, or another BMW?"

Gets ya thinking, don't it?

[Carolyn Duncan]

To paraphrase Ken K, "FIRST isn't about building robots that can compete. It's about building people who can go out into society and produce something that is worth while."

[Solace]

"If it works, its obviously not complicated enough"

[Kyle]

when ever some one says something like, "you can't do that" or "that can't fit in that space" or "I bet you wont...."
my response is always

"Is that a challenge..."

[Joe3]

Originally posted by Kyle
when ever some one says something like, "you can't do that" or "that can't fit in that space" or "I bet you wont...."
my response is always

"Is that a challenge..."

Joe: "You (Kyle) won't jump in the pool with your clothes on."
Kyle: "Is that a challange?"
Joe: "Yup."

Kyle walks around with wet boots for the next three days at nationals.

[Joe Matt]

The Law of Need:

If you go to a store looking for something you NEED, it won't be there. If you pass by a store that you think won't have it, it will.

The Law of Asking:

The one person you ask won't know, the one you don't ask will.

[118 Tech]

"Everytime you integrate, god kills a kitten."

Somethign to think about.

Not really an engieering one but if you are going for an engineering degree, you will be killing kittens by proxy alot.

Credit to my Cal 3 Prof, apparently some people in the dept have some poster with this on it.

[Erin Rapacki]

The Engineer Postulate:

Time Expected x 3 = Time Actual

-I noticed that if i needed something done in a day, it was done in 3 days
-If i said meet me in an hour, it was usually dragged onto 3 hours later

so use this to your advantage, if you need something done in an hour, say you need it in 20 minutes!

It works so well!

ByE

erin

[Joe Matt]

Engineering Rule #20423a

It will take 5x as many newbies to complete something than a seasoned vet, yet they will still do it wrong.

Engineering Rule #1394k

No matter how good you are in math, you always will have a mistake that you missed.

[Kyle]

Originally posted by Joe3
Joe: "You (Kyle) won't jump in the pool with your clothes on."
Kyle: "Is that a challange?"
Joe: "Yup."

Kyle walks around with wet boots for the next three days at nationals.

Ha, they were only wet for 2 days, i took off my water prof watch and my MOE bandanna but not the boots, meh, it was nice having that squeaking sound when i walked around.