"Quotes" that were said during build season

[logank013]

We were at the Indiana FIRST forums on Saturday. This year, it was in one of Purdue's chemistry buildings. Obviously, there were periodic tables hanging from everywhere. Someone from behind me said something along the lines of

"If we need to use the periodic table while building a robot, I think we've taken it too far."

[GeeTwo]

...and don't be brain dumb.

Veteran student's impromptu safety chat during a build on Saturday.

[ctt956]

First off, I want to congratulate the OP of this thread, Jherbie53. On February 23, 2016, this thread turned 10 years old! Now for a quote...

Student 1(to Student 2): "Do you know how to eject a flash drive?"
Student 2: "Yes..."
Student 1: "Eject the flash drive!"
Mentor: "Enject or inject the flash drive?"
Student 1: "Do NOT inject the flash drive!"

[JackJohnIII]

"Wisdom is strength and strength is wisdom"

[domot]

Yelled by our scouting mentor while we were assembling the tower and time he needed a screw (now that I'm thinking about it, the question of why was the scouting mentor working on the tower comes to mind)
"Screw me!"

[neelpatel1710]

This was said by one of the builders on our team while cleaning up the 3-axis mill.

I saw him attempting to clean up the mill with an air nozzle, trying to blow away the oil residue.

"Why don't you use a brush," I ask.

Reply: "Who needs finesse when you have air pressure?!"

To this day, this remains a valid meme on team 1710.

[DThornton3490]

"Yo if I had two of these and put my hand in them I could fly"


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[Oblarg]

"Wait, 'OI' means 'Operator Interface?' I always thought it was just, like, 'IO' but terrible."

[StephenKohnle53]

Here's some good ones from 5556
We broke a bottom rail clean off and reattached it and it works horribly.
"It's good enough for government work"
"Yes, but it didn't cost enough for government work"

"Don't blow metal into the robo-rio we can't pay for a new one"

While testing the robot our first driver said
"If the robot loses control and won't stop block it with your leg, the robot matters more than a leg, it can heal"

At one point one of our members said he was gonna kill me so since I am a problem solver I said "If you kill me I recommend you get a knife and go for the back of the neck so it's cleaner"

Some guy used the drill bit box as a hammer so we joked and said "Let's just use the robo rio as a hammer, it'll work"

I talked to my brother privately and said "I will build a great great robot and make FIRST great again!!!!"

I'll post more later on.

[MarcusDB]

When our team was coming up with the high level goals I said "I'm here to meet people along with..." meaning I wanted to find like minded friends outside of school but as you can see it didn't quite come out that way ahaha

[Jarren Harkema]

"Can I use your toilet paper?" [long pause] "I need to clean up this ketchup."

[The Sofa]

HR was collecting team's information around 9 pm after the build session and muttering:

"I hate HR, I have to walk around and do stuff."

[ImMoMo]

Said to 24 yr old mentor by HS Senior:

"Evan you're like... old what happened to 1114 during worlds in 2007"

[ShotgunNinja]

"All the design in the world isn't gonna help if we don't have the money to build it, but enough design is gonna keep us from wasting more."

also

"Those guys at FIRST don't seem to understand that our kids generally don't have computers at home." - lead mentor, in one of the biggest tells of how hard this year is gonna be for us.

[sqwash984]

"Quantity is definitely better than quality."

As said in reference to shooting a bunch of fuel into the boiler, my team keeps talking about 60 per second.