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Great Engineering Quote :
Engineers aren't boring people, we just get
excited over boring things.
"A scientist can discover a new star, but he cannot make
one. He would have to ask an engineer to do that." Gordon
L. Glegg, American Engineer, 1969.
"Clothes are the lowest priority for an
engineer, assuming the basic thresholds for temperature and decency have
been satisfied. If no appendages are freezing or sticking together, and
if no genitalia or mammary glands are swinging around in plain view,
then the objective of clothing has been met. Anything else is a waste."
Dilbert's
Salary Theorem
Dilbert's "Salary Theorem" states that "Engineers and scientists can
never earn as much as business executives, sales people, accountants and
especially liberal arts majors." This theorem can now be supported by a
mathematical equation based on the following two well known postulates:
Postulate 1: Knowledge is Power.
Postulate 2: Time is Money.
As every engineer knows: Power = Work / Time.
Since: Knowledge = Power,
then Knowledge = Work / Time,
and Time = Money,
then Knowledge = Work / Money.
Solving for Money, we get: Money = Work / Knowledge.
Thus, as Knowledge approaches zero, money
approaches infinity, regardless of the amount of work done.
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Phase Diagram of Chocolate
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What is Love?
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Engineering & Science Conversion Chart
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1,000,000,000,000 Microphones = 1 Megaphone |
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1,000,000 bicycles = 2 megacycles |
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500 millinaries = 1 seminary |
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2,000 mockingbirds = 2 kilomockingbirds |
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10 cards = 1 decacards |
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1/2 lavatory = 1 demijohn |
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0.000001 fish = 1 microfiche |
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453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake |
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1,000,000,000,000 pins = 1 terrapin |
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1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 picolos = 1 gigolo
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10 rations = 1 decoration |
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100 rations = 1 C-ration |
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10 millipedes = 1 centipede |
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3 1/3 tridents = 1 decadent |
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5 holocausts = 1 Pentacost |
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10 monologs = 5 dialogues |
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5 dialogues = 1 decalogue |
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2 monograms = 1 diagram |
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8 nickels = 2 paradigms |
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2 snake eyes = 1 paradise |
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2 wharves = 1 paradox |
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"Prophetic" Quotes
"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons." --Popular
Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949
"I think there is a world market for may be five computers." --Thomas
Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
"I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked
with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a
fad that won't last out the year." --The editor in charge of
business books for Prentice Hall, 1957
"But what ... is it good for?" --Engineer at the Advanced Computing
Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip.
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."
--Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment
Corp., 1977
"This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously
considered as means of communication. The device is inherently of no
value to us." --Western Union internal memo, 1876.
"The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who
would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?" --David Sarnoff's associates in response to his urgings for investment in
the radio in the 1920s.
"The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn
better than a 'C,' the idea must be feasible." --A Yale University
management professor in response to Fred Smith's paper proposing
reliable overnight delivery service. (Smith went on to found Federal
Express Corp.)
"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?" --H.M. Warner, Warner
Brothers, 1927.
"I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and
not Gary Cooper." --Gary Cooper on his decision not to take the
leading role in "Gone With The Wind."
"A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports
say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like
you make." --Response to Debbi Fields' idea of starting Mrs. Fields'
Cookies.
"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out."
--Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962.
"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible." --Lord Kelvin,
president, Royal Society, 1895.
"If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The
literature was full of examples that said you can't do this."
--Spencer Silver on the work that led to the unique adhesives for
3-M"Post-It" Notepads.
"So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing,
even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about
funding us? Or we' ll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our
salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we
went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You
haven't got through college yet.'" --Apple Computer Inc. founder
Steve Jobs on attempts to get Atari and H-P interested in his and
Steve Wozniak's personal computer.
"Professor Goddard does not know the relation between action and
reaction and the need to have something better than a vacuum against
which to react. He seems to lack the basic knowledge ladled out
daily in high schools." --1921 New York Times editorial about Robert
Goddard's revolutionary rocket work.
"You want to have consistent and uniform muscle development across
all of your muscles? It can't be done. It's just a fact of life. You
just have to accept inconsistent muscle development as an
unalterable condition of weight training." --Response to Arthur
Jones, who solved the "unsolvable" problem by inventing Nautilus.
"Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil?
You're crazy." --Drillers who Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist to his
project to drill for oil in 1859.
"Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau."
--Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929.
"Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value." --Marechal
Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre.
"Everything that can be invented has been invented." --Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899.
"Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction". --Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872
"The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the
intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon". --Sir John Eric Ericksen,
British surgeon, appointed Surgeon- Extraordinary to Queen Victoria
1873.
"640K ought to be enough for anybody." -- Bill Gates, 1981
"Listening to someone who brews his own beer is like listening to a
religious fanatic talk about the day he saw the light." - Ross
Murray Montreal Gazette 1991
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How
Laughter Works (click
to learn more)
Bill Gates and the president of General
Motors have met for lunch, and Bill is
going on and on about computer
technology. "If automotive technology
had kept pace with computer technology
over the past few decades, you would now
be driving a V-32 instead of a V-8, and
it would have a top speed of 10,000
miles per hour," says Gates. "Or, you
could have an economy car that weighs 30
pounds and gets a thousand miles to a
gallon of gas. In either case, the
sticker price of a new car would be less
than $50. Why haven't you guys kept up?"
The president of GM
smiles and says, "Because the federal
government won't let us build cars that
crash four times a day."
 Why
is that funny (or not funny, as the case
may be)? Human beings love to laugh, and
the average adult laughs 17 times a day.
Humans love to laugh so much that there
are actually industries built around
laughter. Jokes, sitcoms and comedians
are all designed to get us laughing,
because laughing feels good. For us it
seems so natural, but the funny thing is
that humans are one of the only species
that laughs. Laughter is actually a
complex response that involves many of
the same skills used in solving
problems.
First of all, laughter is not the same as
humor. Laughter is the
physiological response to humor.
Laughter consists of two parts -- a set of
gestures and the production of a sound. When
we laugh, the brain pressures us to conduct
both those activities simultaneously. When
we laugh heartily, changes occur in many
parts of the body, even the arm, leg and
trunk muscles.
Philosopher John Morreall believes that the
first human laughter may have begun as a
gesture of shared relief at the passing of
danger. And since the relaxation that
results from a bout of laughter inhibits the
biological fight-or-flight response,
laughter may indicate trust in one's
companions.
The physiological study of laughter has its own name --
gelotology. And we know that certain parts of the brain
are responsible for certain human functions. For example, emotional
responses are the function of the brain's largest region, the
frontal lobe. But researchers have learned that the
production of laughter is involved with various regions of the
brain. While the relationship between laughter and the brain is not
fully understood, researchers are making some progress.
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