Monday, March 13, 2006

Quotes

One has to watch out for engineers - they begin with the sewing machine and end up with the atomic bomb.
- Marcel Pagnol
Critiques des Critiques

Or in my case, they begin with a simple problem and suddenly develop a horribly complicated solution that noone wants to build. Apparently exploding pipes are generally considered to be a bad thing. Some people have no sense of fun. Just because it's big enough to drive a landrover with a canoe on top through this pipe changes all the safety parameters (oh come on, we have to scale it all somehow!).

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