UPS style: “QUICK! GET THE WOUNDED MAN KIT!”
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Upon printing out a paper copy of this years code.
Me:Hey, let’s weigh the code now. puts code on the scale It weighs a half pound! See, that’s how much weight you guys add to the robot.
Mentor: We should use floating points to reduce weight! We can actually remove weight from the robot that way. Forget those heavy integers, we’ll just use floating points.
Mental: Dude, it would totally work!
“Rocky Road Block”
I want to see if anyone makes the connection.
One of the college mentors and I have been very amused lately by the energy chain(but who isn’t?) so we were looking into buying out own. This is the short conversation that resulted.
Me: Where are we going to buy energy chain from? Igus?
Mental: I guess.
Both of us: AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
After bending a limit switch like crazy for about ten minutes. One teammate looks at it, “Thats very Dr. Seuss.”
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Our mentor trying to ziptie something from underneath
Me:“Can’t find the hole huh?”
Mentor:“Yeah,'cuz it doesnt have any hair around it” wink
“And then we turn the carpet on…”
We were making a portable field out of plywood squares covered in carpet and somebody (who shall remain nameless) suggested using electromagnets to stick them together.
“It’s ok, as long as we have some hot glue, duct tape, zip ties, and pallet wrap, we can fix any problem…”
Person 1 - “What if we got sponsored by McDonalds.”
Person 2 - “Then we could be the McMechatronic Maniacs!”
me “I think God hates the robot!”
3 am Sunday morning - “We have 3 and a half wheels” (we had 7 ball bearings)
“Dude leave me alone, once I get the magic generator working there will be no need for these silly drawings!”
Needless to say I was very tired one night and no one would give me any more caffeine. 
That word was said wayyy to much during our season. But it did look good on my Philly cape. I don’t think it was on my ATL cape. Every time someone said Jam on my team our head mentor would say jelly… there were a lot of Jam vs. Jelly battles.
electrical rookie:give me something to do
me: how bout you go debur somthing
electrical rookie:whats deburing
me: you take a tool and you shave the sharp edges of metal
electrical rookie:sounds like fun!!!
whole pit goes quit
team captian: who just said that
“Who needs scouting, just put on your pretty face and smile” - We were talking about how we were going to scout with such a small team.
The deburrer is one of my favorite tools, so don’t go bad mouthing it. 
My Mentor @ me: “So how did you break my 30 year old deburring tool?”
Me: “I…don’t…know…”
one of our mentors walked up to our driver at the meeting after the Boston Regional (we were one of the fastest robots there)
Mentor- Hey, there was a glitch in the code at Boston.
Driver- gets confused look on his face
Mentor- The robot wasnt going full speed.
Driver- gets really happy look on his face Really!?!?
at the next competition our robot was going too fast for anyone to handle we drove into the baracade between lanes and broke some of the welds on the robot and and put a huge dent in the front
at the next meeting after that i looked at our mentor and said, “you should probroly(sp?) put that glitch back”
Its been a fun season! I m already set for the next!
Not as much a quote but more of a story:
After we powered up our bot last season at the competition, for some unknown reason after its been sitting idle for about a minute, the code error light turns on (requiring an RC reset to work correctly). So sometimes when we put the bot out on the playing field right before a round and the judges are taking a long time to introduce the teams, we got that annoying code error light and would have to reset it (using the button on our OI), otherwise our autonomous mode would not run. So every round the drivers and I (field coach) would helplessly stand there praying the code error light didn’t turn on again before the round officially started.
Several times I sprinted back onto the playing field while the judges introduced the teams (with the judges permission of course) to power down the bot and power it back up and hope that darned light never came back on.
Me (mechanical team) to a programmer when we realised we were a few ounces from being under 120 pounds…
Z- hey, i was wondering, do you guys think you could make your bits lighter?
CS- i’m not sure, but that seems like it’s a hardware problem, the chips are physical objects aren’t they?
we then realised that we had used 1/4 inch lexan as a shield for our control board… yes, it’s overkill, yes, it weighs 5 pounds, and yes, it’s important to bullet-proof the control board…