Re: Collection of Engineering-Related Quotations

From: <George>
Date: Tue Feb 15 2005 - 07:37:00 EST

Add an engineering law:" An engineer tells you how to do it, a lawyer tells you why you can't."

George McKinney

• Original Message ----- From: Paul Bowers To: PipingDesign@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 8:57 PM Subject: [PipingDesign] Collection of Engineering-Related Quotations

   Good quotes regarding engineers (even though I are not one myself):

   http://www.ukcivilengineering.co.uk/quotes.html

   I may have to add many of these to the main page's rotating random quote    feature (in case listmembers haven't noticed, each reload of    pipingdesign.com features a different quotation. It's near the middle of    the page).

   One excerpt:

   <<Engineers ... are not superhuman. They make mistakes in their    assumptions, in their calculations, in their conclusions. That they make    mistakes is forgivable; that they catch them is imperative. Thus it is    the essence of modern engineering not only to be able to check one's own    work but also to have one's work checked and to be able to check the    work of others.

• Henry Petroski To Engineer Is Human. Engineers Creed>>

   This is similar to what one of my bosses once said (paraphrased): "Good,    you found a mistake - that's why we build it on paper before we build it    in reality."

   Paul

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[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Received on Tue Feb 15 07:37:00 2005