Involute Curve | 17/09/2014 05:20:06 |
![]() 337 forum posts 107 photos | Here are a few I've come across....
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. (Unknown)
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Bob Murray | 17/09/2014 06:09:28 |
24 forum posts | "There comes a time in the life of any project when you have to kill all the engineers and put the darn thing into production." "Civil engineers build targets. Mechanical engineers build weapons." "It's a good thing mechanical engineers invented the wheelbarrow. It keeps civil engineers from having to transport dirt in their pockets." "If you tell an engineer that it can't be done, he WILL do it just to prove you wrong!" (Just like most machinists!) I'm a recovering engineer doing the twelve steps, but I do backslide on occasion |
Michael Gilligan | 17/09/2014 08:04:11 |
![]() 23121 forum posts 1360 photos | "If you can't make it right, make it adjustable" ( Anon. ) . "To invent, you need a good imagination and pile of junk" ( Thomas Edison ) . "If a job's worth doing, it's worth working-to-death" ( my Dad; in his best Brummie accent, and with just the right note of sarcasm . MichaelG. Edit: the smiley was just one of those accidental ones ... but it works Edited By Michael Gilligan on 17/09/2014 08:07:20 |
Eric Cox | 17/09/2014 08:47:32 |
![]() 557 forum posts 38 photos | Laws of engineering Any pipe cut to length will be too short An electric motor first installed always rotates in the wrong direction Inter changeable parts won't Any errors no matter how small add up to cause the maximum damage. |
mick | 17/09/2014 08:55:27 |
421 forum posts 49 photos | After I had been handed a particularly nasty and difficult job to do by the workshop foreman, I said to an older machinist "I must have done something wrong in a pervious incarnation" the sage like reply was "all engineers did something very wrong in their previous incarnation!" |
Neil Wyatt | 17/09/2014 09:17:18 |
![]() 19226 forum posts 749 photos 86 articles | Good. Cheap. Quick. - Choose one. Simplificate and add lightness. If it looks right, it probably is right. Good engineering solutions look beautiful. Bad ones are often ugly.
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Brian Wood | 17/09/2014 09:18:21 |
2742 forum posts 39 photos | The one I like is the General Description of Engineering " Engineering is all about making holes in metal and then filling those holes with other metal" I read this somewhere Brian |
maurice bennie | 17/09/2014 09:40:24 |
164 forum posts 1 photos | Hi all Measure twice cut once . From my grandfather . He died 70 years ago! and I still follow his rule . |
WALLACE | 17/09/2014 09:52:56 |
304 forum posts 17 photos | 'To err is human, to forgive is by design'. W. |
NJH | 17/09/2014 10:14:08 |
![]() 2314 forum posts 139 photos | Old ( and really awful!) Six munce ugo I koodunt even spel injineer and now I are wun!
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Ian S C | 17/09/2014 11:20:31 |
![]() 7468 forum posts 230 photos | Think three times. Measure twice. Cut once. Ian S C |
Bill Robley | 17/09/2014 13:34:58 |
21 forum posts 1 photos | Two rules of life: Constants aren't, Variables won't. |
colin hawes | 17/09/2014 14:33:35 |
570 forum posts 18 photos | The impossible just takes longer. Colin |
John McNamara | 17/09/2014 14:56:00 |
![]() 1377 forum posts 133 photos | Frank LLoyd Wright the Architect responded complaint about Roof Leaks, that he had not worked on the design hard enough unless there were a few leaks. This video deals with Wright versus the engineers and the elements. Regards
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Jon Gibbs | 17/09/2014 16:48:53 |
750 forum posts | An engineer is someone who can make for 10 cents what any fool can make for a dollar. |
Nigel McBurney 1 | 17/09/2014 19:50:47 |
![]() 1101 forum posts 3 photos | comments from a brumagen born toolroom manager who saw sense and came south " I always thought swarf was blue until I came south" "too many keyboard engineers nowadays"
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Martin Cottrell | 17/09/2014 20:17:24 |
297 forum posts 18 photos | "Time was invented to stop everything happening at once." Anon " When working at the frontiers of science, you very often discover the inadequacies of your understanding!" I heard this one recently but can't remember who quoted it. "if it aint broke, don't fix it!" My Dad at various times in my childhood while taking stuff apart to see how it worked. "Grease is cheaper than bearings." My Grandad after I'd knackered a farm implement having forgotten to grease before using. "An ounce of lubrication is worth a ton of pressure." Grandad again, also a great nudge nudge wink wink one liner often quoted from my days in the Young Farmers, happy days! Regards Martin. |
Bubble | 17/09/2014 20:47:10 |
75 forum posts 6 photos | "This is fine in practice, but will it work in theory?" (Mechanical Test Engineer)
Jim
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DrDave | 17/09/2014 21:10:46 |
264 forum posts 52 photos | For the Aeronautical Engineers (Quoted by AJ Coombe): "Crinkle, crinkle, little spar, Strained beyond the yield point far. Up above the world so high, Bits & pieces in the sky"
And a re-take of an old one by an F1 colleague: "If it looks right, you are not looking hard enough" |
Boiler Bri | 17/09/2014 21:37:12 |
![]() 856 forum posts 212 photos | Oh no not on here as well, my inbox gets full of this stuff, not good guys.
Brian |
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