By Bob Plankers on Jan 25, 2010 in Featured, Quotes | 1 Comment
“I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I’m not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.” — Robert McCloskey
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By Bob Plankers on Oct 12, 2009 in Featured, Quotes | 1 Comment
“An architect knows something about everything. An engineer knows everything about one thing.”
- Matthew Frederick, “101 Things I Learned in Architecture School”
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By Bob Plankers on Jul 1, 2009 in Featured, Quotes | 0 Comments
“No one wants to learn by mistakes, but we cannot learn enough from successes to go beyond the state of the art.” – Henry Petroski, “To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design”
My friend Jon has a script to randomize quotes in his email signature, and this came through yesterday. I’ve always enjoyed Henry Petroski’s books, and though he’s a civil engineer most of the lessons are ones IT professionals can learn from, too.
Luckily, most of our mistakes don’t involve buildings collapsing, though.[0]
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[0] Which reminds me of another thing a former boss of mine used to say during crisis situations: “Calm down, nobody is dying here.”
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By Bob Plankers on Mar 10, 2009 in Featured, Quotes | 5 Comments
“A man’s troubles can be measured by the number of keys in his pocket.” – David Plankers
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By Bob Plankers on Jan 18, 2009 in Featured, Quotes | 2 Comments
- “After an access cover has been secured by 16 hold-down screws, it will be discovered that the gasket has been omitted.” – De la Lastra’s Corollary
There’s probably a linear relationship between the work needed to secure said access cover and the likelihood of omitting the gasket. As usual, from Michael Moncur’s Cynical Quote Collection over at QOTD.
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By Bob Plankers on Jan 6, 2009 in Featured, General Rambling, Quotes | 5 Comments
“Even though I’m a man, I don’t like beer. I prefer appletinis. They make me feel fancy.” – J.D., on Scrubs.
Boy I’m glad Scrubs is back.
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By Bob Plankers on Dec 10, 2008 in Featured, Quotes | 2 Comments
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” – Arthur C. Clarke
“Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.” – Gray’s Law
(hat tip to Joshua Brauer at Adding Understanding for calling my attention to Gray’s Law)
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By Bob Plankers on Dec 2, 2008 in Featured, Quotes | 0 Comments
“A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.” – Saki
(hat tip to QOTD as usual, best quote feed ever)
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