Engineering "rules"

Maybe another rule should be if you haven't done something in 15 years plan on having to give yourself remedial training before you waste a bunch of time screwing things up... :rollseyes:

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Originally Posted by Frank Giger

"There comes a time in every project where one has to shoot all the engineers and just build the d*mned plane."

- My brother-in-law, who was an engineer at Boeing at the time.

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Beat you to that one Frank. ;) If they had shot all the engineers a few years earlier they might have actually gotten the 787 out on time and budget.

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Originally Posted by CharlieF

And one of my favorites:

To the optimist, the glass is half full.
To the pessimist, the glass is half empty.
To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

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To the opportunist, its a drink!