Jerry:

I'm going to steal your tagline for a presentation.

"Engineering is the art of making what you want from things you can get."

Is that yours?  Should I attribute it to someone (you, perhaps)?

-- 
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My conservative friends think I'm a liberal kook.
Why am I not happy that they have found common ground?

Tim Wescott, Communications, Control, Circuits & Software
http://www.wescottdesign.com

On 7/10/12 12:50 AM, Tim Wescott wrote:
> Jerry:
>
> I'm going to steal your tagline for a presentation.
>
> "Engineering is the art of making what you want from things you can get."
>
> Is that yours?  Should I attribute it to someone (you, perhaps)?
>

it's a good one.  does google (with quotes) hit upon anything?

-- 

r b-j                  r...@audioimagination.com

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

On Tue, 10 Jul 2012 01:05:39 -0400, robert bristow-johnson wrote:

> "Engineering is the art of making what you want from things you can
>> get."

A quick search coughed up a bunch of newsgroup posts by Jerry, and one 
attributed quote -- to Jerry.

-- 
Tim Wescott
Control system and signal processing consulting
www.wescottdesign.com

My favorite:

Engineering is the closest thing to magic that exists in the world: Elon Musk 

Al Clark
www.danvillesignal.com






Tim Wescott <t...@seemywebsite.please> wrote in news:-
f...@web-ster.com:

> On Tue, 10 Jul 2012 01:05:39 -0400, robert bristow-johnson wrote:
> 
>> "Engineering is the art of making what you want from things you can
>>> get."
> 
> A quick search coughed up a bunch of newsgroup posts by Jerry, and one 
> attributed quote -- to Jerry.
> 

On Tue, 10 Jul 2012 16:16:54 +0000, Al Clark wrote:

> My favorite:
> 
> Engineering is the closest thing to magic that exists in the world: Elon
> Musk
> 
> Al Clark
> www.danvillesignal.com
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Tim Wescott <t...@seemywebsite.please> wrote in news:-
> f...@web-ster.com:
> 
>> On Tue, 10 Jul 2012 01:05:39 -0400, robert bristow-johnson wrote:
>> 
>>> "Engineering is the art of making what you want from things you can
>>>> get."

Well, this is a seminar about taking the tools you have and making the 
stuff your boss wants...

-- 
My liberal friends think I'm a conservative kook.
My conservative friends think I'm a liberal kook.
Why am I not happy that they have found common ground?

Tim Wescott, Communications, Control, Circuits & Software
http://www.wescottdesign.com

On 7/10/2012 2:13 PM, Tim Wescott wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Jul 2012 16:16:54 +0000, Al Clark wrote:
>
>> My favorite:
>>
>> Engineering is the closest thing to magic that exists in the world: Elon
>> Musk
>>
>> Al Clark
>> www.danvillesignal.com
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Tim Wescott<t...@seemywebsite.please>  wrote in news:-
>> f...@web-ster.com:
>>
>>> On Tue, 10 Jul 2012 01:05:39 -0400, robert bristow-johnson wrote:
>>>
>>>> "Engineering is the art of making what you want from things you can
>>>>> get."
>
> Well, this is a seminar about taking the tools you have and making the
> stuff your boss wants...

I'm sorry to have been away so long. The quote is mine. I made it up to 
fit in a 72-character newsgroup line. Somebody in Australia has it 
hanging on his office wall (woo hoo!). Use it with or without 
attribution. There is no copyright.

Jerry
-- 
Engineering is the art of making what you want from things you can get.
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