Chief Delphi - Spotlight List

Your best friends are all team members and you could never live without any of them because robotics people are the best people. - Riverdance [more]

		Chief Delphi
Spotlight List

Post	Quote	Username	Added By
	Our job as mentors isn't to teach them how to make a robot...It's to teach them that there is value in technology and being among the people who create it.	Andy A.	RogerR
	If I find a student on my team who came through FIRST having learned nothing more then he wanted to go to MIT, I'll give my self a pat on the back and start counting down to kickoff.	Andy A.	Beth Sweet
	AND we had to walk uphill both ways to get to our shops! And we liked it that way!	Andy A.	JBotAlan
	PLIERS: Used to round off bolt heads.	Andy A.	RogerR
	Belts are a fine way of transferring power in a robot. Like chains, gears, drive shafts, viscous couplings or any other means of transmission they require some care and attention on you're part. But no one said this robot stuff was going to be a cake walk.	Andy A.	Billfred
	Remember; FIRST is staffed by real live humans, some of whom have a sense of humor.	Andy A.	Billfred
	My favorite game pieces are the kind exclusively sold through AndyMark.	Andrew_L	ctt956
	Thanks for the heads up on the elevator game.	Andrew_L	ctt956
	As my boy Macklemore once said, "The greats weren't great because at birth they could paint, the greats were great because they paint a lot".	Andrew_L	frcguy
	I wonder how many games we could come up with that are not the one for FRC 2008.	AndrewN	Daniel Bathgate
	award or no award, you're still smelly. :D	AndrewMorrison	Andy Baker
	The world isn't changed by people playing it safe.	Andrew Y.	Beaker
	I think rovers on Mars are way cool but you won't get a crowd of enthusiastic participants cheering as they trudge 150 meters a day.	Andrew Schuetze	jgannon
	I respect what you have to say and I ask that you do the same for me.	Andrew Schreiber	dlavery
	GP is a measurement that can only apply to yourself. To apply it to another is unfair to that person/group.	Andrew Schreiber	Akash Rastogi
	"FIRST is like a pizza, we all think different toppings should be on it"	Andrew Schreiber	Molten
	"Evaluate twice, execute once"	Andrew Schreiber	Daniel_LaFleur
	I won't tar and feather you, I'll disagree though.	Andrew Schreiber	NorviewsVeteran
	the everyone is a winner philosophy cheapens winning.	Andrew Schreiber	Karthik
	I'm very certain that specifics are quite interesting but all that keeps going through my mind is, "OOOOOH SHINY!"	Andrew Schreiber	synth3tk
	...never do something because it is comfortable, do something because you WANT to do it.	Andrew Schreiber	Akash Rastogi
	Know that CD is a safe environment to learn to talk with a foot in your mouth.	Andrew Schreiber	Molten
	This place is much brighter than most institutions I have seen. It also seems to be lacking straight jackets which I think is a mistake for many of us.	Andrew Schreiber	demosthenes2k8
	Winning a match is not something a robot does, winning is a team effort that requires the cooperation of dozens of individuals.	Andrew Schreiber	Akash Rastogi
	Someone wake me up the day of Kickoff.	Andrew Schreiber	bobwrit
	Each team is different, your mileage may vary. What works for your team does NOT necessarily mean it will work for others.	Andrew Schreiber	Karibou
	I have many ideas, every last one of them involves finding something more productive to do with your time.	Andrew Schreiber	EricVanWyk
	This may not be Battlebots but it sure isn't Pretty Pretty Princess Bots.	Andrew Schreiber	Molten
	Not only would it be cool but the mental image of Dave's suffering when he writes a message in unintelligible characters makes me grin uncontrollably.	Andrew Schreiber	Nick Lawrence
	Perfection of a system comes not when you can add nothing more but instead when you can remove nothing.	Andrew Schreiber	Siri
	And, just for the record, dlavery is on my mental ignore list from September until January if the thread involves the word "hint" at all.	Andrew Schreiber	Bethie42
	I'll give you my prediction in just over 35 hours.	Andrew Schreiber	GCentola
	Every mentor we lose is potentially dozens of students lost...	Andrew Schreiber	Molten
	Dangit Jim, we are engineers not politicians.	Andrew Schreiber	Chris is me
	For those of you who don't want to read a block of text: Respect the Tools.	Andrew Schreiber	apalrd
	...why do programmers have a nesting habit?	Andrew Schreiber	RoboDesigners
	from time to time, we all need a good smack to make us see when we screwed up and did something we shouldn't have.	Andrew Schreiber	IndySam
	Sadly this bot uses better punctuation and capitalization than many on this site.	Andrew Schreiber	Molten
	if you need a hammer you use a hammer and not an oscilloscope.	Andrew Schreiber	IndySam
	Show me the mentor who has never built a bad robot and I'll show you either a new mentor, a liar, or Andy Baker.	Andrew Schreiber	Duke461
	Show me the mentor who has never built a bad robot and I'll show you either a new mentor, a liar, or Andy Baker.	Andrew Schreiber	Taylor
	Coaxial swerve modules with a suspension and differential aren't normal. But on Winnovation they are.	Andrew Schreiber	EricH
	Representing data in a good way is an art in its own right.	Andrew Schreiber	Hallry
	Let me live in my delusional world where minibots never happened and the Tetrix kit doesn't exist.	Andrew Schreiber	Billfred
	We will be stressed, we will be angry. But we need to hold ourselves to a higher standard, we need to be role models and inspirations to students.	Andrew Schreiber	nitneylion452
	1114 is the definition of what a FIRST team should be. For anyone to say otherwise is disgusting to me.	Andrew Schreiber	avanboekel
	We need to celebrate great things because good enough isn't inspiring.	Andrew Schreiber	Akash Rastogi
	You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink. Our job is to make the horse thirsty.	Andrew Schreiber	Siri
	However, I am a firm believer in the theory that if you are pushing with a mecanum wheeled robot you are doing it wrong.	Andrew Schreiber
	Doing something reliably is better than doing something well occasionally.	Andrew Schreiber	Karthik