The Beginning Engineers Checklist shares some hard-earned wisdom:
Business will always be part of engineering. Get over it.
- Lots of people lie. You can’t tell. You can’t get along without them.
- Salespeople will tell you anything they think will sell their product.
- Payment for contract work may be difficult to collect.
- Never underestimate the stupidity of the end user of your product.
- Make things that people want to buy. Not use, play with, see, understand, etc. — buy.
K.I.S.S.
- The ideal design has zero parts.
- “An engineer is someone who can build for a dollar what a fool can build for twenty” — Robert A. Hienlein
- If it ain’t broke, it doesn’t have enough features yet
- To the optimist, the glass is half full. To the pessimist, the glass is half empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.