Engineering is like having an 8 a.m. class and a late afternoon lab every day for the rest of your life. Managers, not engineers, rule the world. If you like junk food, caffeine and all-nighters, go into software. Dilbert is a documentary. Mechanical Engineers build weapons, Civil Engineers build targets.
Scientists think that the real world approximates equations.
Eight Three engineering students were gathered together discussing the possible designers of the human body. Nine A priest, a lawyer and an engineer are about to be guillotined. The priest puts his head on the block, they pull the rope and nothing happens. He declares that he's been saved by divine intervention, so he's let go. The lawyer is put on the block, and again the rope doesn't release the blade.