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[edit] Technical
[edit] Robotics
- 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. | Rich Cook
- When will man learn that all races are equally inferior to robots? | Futurama
[edit] Engineering
- Engineers DO NOT Rule The World. You'll hear it across campus. The deafening roar of the overconfident. How can one be proud to rule a world of suffering and malnourishment. How can we be oblivious to the billions who fight for survival. Our organisation will be a screaming voice in a society of denial. And we will not stop screaming until somebody starts listening. | EWB Windsor Chapter
- Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems. | Scott Adams, “Dilbert”
- It's the engineer who realises that the glass is twice as big as it needs to be. | Unknown
- The ideal engineer is a composite ... He is not a scientist, he is not a mathematician, he is not a sociologist or a writer; but he may use the knowledge and techniques of any or all of these disciplines in solving engineering problems. | N. W. Dougherty
- Scientists investigate that which already is; engineers create that which has never been. | Albert Einstein
[edit] Design
- Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. | Howard Aiken, IBM engineer
- Remember: A lone amateur built the ark. Professionals built The Titanic. | Unknown
- Shin: a device for finding furniture in the dark. | Steven Wright
- As far as the customer is concerned the interface is the product. | Raskin
- It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them. | Steve Jobs, 1998
- You know, I've got a plan that could rescue Apple. I can't say any more than that it's the perfect product and the perfect strategy for Apple. But nobody there will listen to me.| Steve Jobs, 1995
- Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons | Popular Mechanics
- When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. | R. Buckminster Fuller
- Seek simplicity, and distrust it. | Alfred North Whitehead
[edit] Science
- The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...' | Isaac Asimov
- All science is either physics or stamp collecting. | Ernest Rutherford
- If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. | Unknown
[edit] Stats
- How has the virtually barren technique of hypothesis testing come to assume such importance in the process by which we arrive at our conclusions from our data? | Loftus
[edit] Entrepreneurship
- [Jobs' and Wozniak's] previous business experience consisted of making 'blue boxes' to hack into the phone system, a business with the rare distinction of being both illegal and unprofitable. | Paul Graham
[edit] Life
[edit] Quips
- Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants to see us happy. | Benjamin Franklin
- A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. | Mark Twain
- I believe that every human has a finite number of heart-beats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises. | Neil Armstrong
- I don't want to achieve immortality through my work, I want to achieve it through not dying. | Woody Allen
- Engineers aren't boring people, we just get excited over boring things. | unknown
- Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. | Isaac Asimov
[edit] Relationships & Community
- We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love. | Unknown
- [Tom] had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it — namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain. | Mark Twain
- The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. | William James
[edit] Wisdom
- In our age... men seem more than ever prone to confuse wisdom with knowledge, and knowledge with information, and to try to solve problems of life in terms of engineering. | T.S. Eliot
- Remember, it's common sense that tells you the world is flat. | Unknown
- Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. | Mark Twain
- Behold, the fool saith, "Put not all thine eggs in the one basket" - which is but a manner of saying, "Scatter your money and your attention"; but the wise man saith, "Put all your eggs in the one basket and WATCH THAT BASKET. | Mark Twain
- Those who fully trust the quotes on the Mechatronics Frontpage need to buy and read a self-help book. | L. R. McCulloch
- And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. | T.S. Eliot
[edit] Ethics
- The only true fault is to sit down content with anything less than perfection. | C.S. Lewis
[edit] Religion
- When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me. | Emo Philips
