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An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you theglass is twice the size it needs to be

Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.

Engineers lie to sol!e problems. "f there are no problems handily a!ailable, they will create their ownproblems.

Creativity is allowing your-self to make mistakes. Art knows which ones to keep.

Normal people ... believe that if it ain't broke, on't !" it. #ngineers believe that

if it ain't broke, it oesn't have enough features yet.

#he engineer$s first problem in any design situation is to disco!er what the problem really is.

#he engineer has been, and is, a maer of history

A scientist stuies what is, an engineer stuies what never was.

$#ngineers are not superhuman. %hey make mistakes in their assumptions, in their

calculations, in their conclusions. %hat they make mistakes is forgivable& that they

catch them is imperative. %hus it is the essence of moern engineering not only to

be able to check one's own work but also to have one's work checke an to be ableto check the work of others.$ - enry (etroski, #ngineer.

$)cientists investigate that which alreay is& #ngineers create that which has never

been.$ - Albert #instein, (hysicist.

$#ngineers like to solve problems. *f there are no problems hanily available, they

will create their own problems.$ - )cott Aams, Cartoonist.

$)cientists ream about oing great things. #ngineers o them.$ - +ames ichener,

Novelist.

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$)trive for perfection in everything you o. %ake the best that e"ists an make it

better. hen it oes not e"ist, esign it.$ - )ir enry oyce, #ngineer.

$A common mistake that people make when trying to esign something completely

foolproof is to unerestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.$ - /ouglas Aams,

Author.

$Architects an engineers are among the most fortunate of men since they buil

their own monuments with public consent, public approval an often public money.$

- +ohn (rebble, Author.

$#ngineering is the art of moelling materials we o not wholly unerstan, intoshapes we cannot precisely analyse so as to withstan forces we cannot properly

assess, in such a way that the public has no reason to suspect the e"tent of our

ignorance.$ - /r. A /ykes, #ngineer.

$%he great liability of the engineer compare to men of other professions is that his

works are out in the open where all can see them. is acts, step by step, are in har

substance. e cannot bury his mistakes in the grave like the octors. e cannot

argue them into thin air or blame the 0uge like the lawyers. e cannot, like the

architects, cover his failures with trees an vines. e cannot, like the politicians,screen his shortcomings by blaming his opponents an hope that the people will

forget. %he engineer simply cannot eny that he i it. *f his works o not work, he

is amne.$ - erbert oover, 12st (resient of the 3nite )tates

#he #op %& #hings Engineering School 'idn$t #each

10. There are about 10 types of capacitors.

9. Theory tells you how a circuit works, not why it doesn't work.

8. Not everything works according to the specs in the databook.

. !nything practical you learn will be obsolete before you use it, e"cept the co#ple" #ath, which youwill never use.

$. !lways try to fi" the hardware with the software.

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%. &ngineering is like having an 8 a.#. class and a late afternoon lab every day for the rest of yourlife.

. (verti#e pay) *hat overti#e pay)

+. &ngineers rule the world until the ne"t revision.

. -f you like unk food, caffeine, and all/nighters, then you should go into architecture.

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