If It was Robert Heinlein who said that, the book may have been "The door
into Summer". It is one of my favorites because of all the great advances
in technology that he envisioned for the future (the future being the
1970's). Some of the cool things were...

a mechanical drafting board (we use CAD now).
a general purpose robot that could remember complex tasks (like washing
dishes) and also adapt (slightly)
analog memory devices (I think they were called Thorsen tubes)



On Tue, 18 Apr 2000 rleggitt@concentric.net wrote:

> Found on the web:
>
> "An engineer is someone who can build for a dollar what any damn fool can
>  build for ten."                                - Robert A. Hienlein
>
> -- Rich
>
> On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, Daniel C. Christadoss wrote:
>
> > Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 06:46:18 EDT
> > From: Daniel C. Christadoss <Dancrissco@AOL.COM>
> > Reply-To: pic microcontroller discussion list <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
> > To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> > Subject: Re: [OT] Engineer's Creed
> >
> >     I once read a book about an engineer a long time ago and do not remember
> > the name of the book. It made very interesting reading.
> >
> >     It had a very nice quote about an engineer
> >
> >     " An engineer is someone who can build for a dollar what a fool can build
> > for twenty "
> >
> >     Can someone tell me the name of this book and the author
> >
> >     Regards
> >
> >     Dan
> >
>