Friday Wisdom – Admit you don’t Know

Posted on 03/04/2016 by Andrew Reynolds

“I don’t have a solution, but I admire the problem.”

We engineers are often called on to solve a problem.  Here’s a little secret: many times we don’t have one.  I’ve used the above line from time to time with colleagues and friends, but never with my wife.

The line does do it’s job to get people laughing long enough for me to leave the room.

More wisdom next week,

Andrew

About Andrew Reynolds

Born in California Did the school thing studying electronics, computers, release engineering and literary criticism. I worked in the high tech world doing software release engineering and am now retired. Then I got prostate cancer. Now I am a blogger and work in my wood shop doing scroll saw work and marquetry.
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23 Responses to Friday Wisdom – Admit you don’t Know

  1. aranislandgirl says:
    03/14/2016 at 7:08 pm

    Clever as ever Andrew! 😀

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  2. johannisthinking@wordpresss.com says:
    03/06/2016 at 4:46 pm

    Brilliant statement !!!!! I am going to use it, if you don’t mind! 🙂

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  4. Jacqui Murray says:
    03/05/2016 at 8:32 am

    That is good. I might steal it.

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  5. artseafartsea says:
    03/04/2016 at 11:25 pm

    I too love this one.

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  6. JoHanna Massey says:
    03/04/2016 at 8:54 am

    Wise Indeed.
    Have an excellent weekend, Andrew.

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  7. PiedType says:
    03/04/2016 at 8:40 am

    My son’s a developer. I think he could use this. Often.

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  8. lorieb says:
    03/04/2016 at 7:34 am

    LOL I will pass that on to my eldest son, a civil engineer

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  10. Carrie Rubin says:
    03/04/2016 at 5:52 am

    Love that one! I’ll have to adopt it. I can think of many times it would come in handy.

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  11. Allan G. Smorra says:
    03/04/2016 at 5:33 am

    I’m with you on this one, Andrew. You have to know your audience and just like Seinfeld’s George Costanza, leave on a high note.
    Ω

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  12. Annika Perry says:
    03/04/2016 at 5:02 am

    Only a brave man would say that to his wife!😀 Im currently waiting for a heating engineer – I’ll see what he has to say…

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