Monthly Archives: June 2014

Question: What is the sum of 2 + 2?

An accountant will say, “What do you want the answer to be?”

A mathematician will say, “I believe it is 4 but I will have to prove it.”

A statistician will say, “The population is too small to give an accurate answer but on the basis of the data supplied the answer lies between 3 and 5.”

An economist will say, “Based on today’s thinking the answer is 4 but the answer may be different tomorrow”.

An engineer will say, “The answer is 4 but, adding a safety factor, we will call it 5”.

A new study found that ⅔ of people cannot add or subtract fractions correctly, the other ½ can.

The Top 10 Things Engineering School didn’t teach:

• There are at least 10 types of capacitors;
• Theory tells you how a circuit works, not why it does not work;
• Not everything works according to the specifications in the operation manual;
• Anything practical you learn will be obsolete before you use it, except the complex maths, which you will never use.
• Always try to fix the hardware with software.
• Engineering is like having an 8.00am class and a late afternoon lab every day for the rest of your life.
• Overtime pay? What overtime pay?
• Managers, not engineers, rule the world.
• If you like junk food, caffeine and all-nighters, go into software.