To those Drillbotics team members about to graduate and start a new career, I wish to share some advice given to me many years ago:
- Teamwork is essential; it allows you to blame someone else.
- Recording of data is also essential; it indicates you have been doing something.
- With respect to qualifying an engineering model, data gathered experimentally always leads to a quantity that when added to, subtracted from , divided by, or multiplied by to obtain the correct results … is an empirical constant.
- Field experience is directly proportional to the quantity of equipment ruined or destroyed.
- No matter what happens there is always someone who believes it happened according to his/her pet theory. Any data that indicates otherwise should be deleted.
- Past experience is always true. Never be misled by present facts.
- Do not believe in miracles. Rely on them.
Good luck and have fun!
