"Quotes" that were said during build season

[Molly Stieber]

I need my strippers!
refering to wire strippers of course

[alex1699]

i you put a balloon on the air release then your release the air it will blow up the balloon

[laultima]

after the championships, i, as a new programmer, am fiddling with the robot code. shortly after the robot goes completely insane, almost taking out our mentor:
me: "There's apparently a big difference, when making a kill switch, in disabling user control and disabling user control AND the motors"

[silicon_ghoti]

By a programmer:
"Metal conducts heat! Metal conducts heat!"
(As he holds square pins to solder them to a PCB.)

May be already mentioned, but this was said by the pit announcer at LVR:
"Team ### as requested a flux capacitor."
(At this point half the pit bursts into laughter, then goes quite as that half explains to the other half why that was funny.)

[basicxman]

member repairing under robot
Member 1 (repairing): Ahh...My back
Member 2: what!? are you sitting on something?
member 1: i don't think so...oh wait...!@#&! im laying on a hanging sprocket from the 'bot
member 2: well if you finished repairing quickly it would be on the 'bot and not under your back

[lady_raidan]

Yeah, these are defiantly original. (Also you can get these from our team’s website at www.team1980.org under "about 1980" then "team quotes".)

"Safety first! Ummm....where's the first aid kit?

"Giving up is for squares"

"Don’t do today what you can do tomorrow"

"The secret to success is to acknowledge that you have limits, but to never acknowledge that you have reached those limits."

"If you make it idiot-proof, someone will build a better idiot."

"Just wing it."

"He who lives in a glass house should look into a new house."

"Less is more."

"Idealism takes a backseat to practicality."

"Work today, be successful tomorrow."

"Don’t blow it up."

[Bsteckler]

"Ghaaaa!"
Said by another team member while luricating our gearboxes with white lithium grease...

[Katie_UPS]

Originally Posted by lady_raidan

"Safety first! Ummm....where's the first aid kit?

UPS style: "QUICK! GET THE WOUNDED MAN KIT!"

[mayde]

..."haha, i would totally laugh if you knocked that over with my face!"

[Phoenix Spud]

Our team has come up with a plan just in case our robot doesn't clear customs in time. (After all, we are attending a week 1 regional...) We are going to take pictures of the robot from every side, print them out big, and put them on a cardboard box. Then we will take the two youngest kids going to the USA--they are 6 and 7 years old--put them inside the box. One will be called the "kicker/ball control" the other will be the "lifter." We aren't sure if this would be a legal robot, but in a pinch we think it might be OK.

[onecoolc]

Two from this morning:

Programmer: Why is everyone gathering around the robot?
Head Mentor: Gee, I dunno why. Maybe because we're building it?

Build Team: Dude! It actually fits!
Head Mentor: That's what happens when you design it first.

[FlyingD662]

From our safety captain:
"There's nothing more demeaning than writing up your own accident report..."

"Ok, so the number one rule for the build space is: Measure once, cut twice."

On a very LONG and seemingly unproductive Thursday at the Colorado Regional:
"So what are the programmers doing NOW??"
"They're fixing the problem, I believe."
"Oh, so they finally figured it out?"
"Yeah, they were pulling out the battery on the computer and they dropped it, so they put it back in and now everything works fine..."

[IFB662]

Originally Posted by FlyingD662

From our safety captain:
"There's nothing more demeaning than writing up your own accident report..."

"Ok, so the number one rule for the build space is: Measure once, cut twice."

On a very LONG and seemingly unproductive Thursday at the Colorado Regional:
"So what are the programmers doing NOW??"
"They're fixing the problem, I believe."
"Oh, so they finally figured it out?"
"Yeah, they were pulling out the battery on the computer and they dropped it, so they put it back in and now everything works fine..."

those are good flyinD but my fav from our team was

mentor: you guys should file down those edges on the bot.

weeks later

safety inspector: you guys are going to need to file down those edges before i sign off.

[FlyingD662]

haha! IFB... Then there's always this moment to remember:

Russell (driver): *sigh* this is just not going in!
Me: Its supposed to fit!
Russell: Who measured? Patches?
Me: OH. Ill make a new one...

AND

Russell: This looks like a job for THE TOOL OF PERSUATION!
Me: Ahh, yes, I knew that it would eventually come to this.
Freshman: The what?!?
Me: Russell's tool of persuation.
Freshman: THE WHAT?!?
Russell: The big rubber mallet.

[IFB662]

"this hill didn't seem so big when we were walking to chiles"

"Malinda lets stand over there so we don't kill software"