Stop and think
Stop and think
(OP)
Hi all. I just wanted to make some considerations.
Few weeks ago I had the opportunity to participate to the MSC User Conference in Toulouse. Among the keynote speakers was Sam Venneri from NASA, who escorted the participants through an overview of the future challenges of the american administration in the field of high technology areas. Well, it was upsetting for me. I am busy all day long struggling to make my tiny machines work, and this old guy comes and charms the listeners with his descriptions of smart structures, nanotech and stuff... Hey he made me feel again as I felt during the university years, when I still had an attitude to imagination and fantasy... thanks Sam, you reminded me that engineers are not dumb bureaucrats, and that we must always keep alive our sense of dream.
Few weeks ago I had the opportunity to participate to the MSC User Conference in Toulouse. Among the keynote speakers was Sam Venneri from NASA, who escorted the participants through an overview of the future challenges of the american administration in the field of high technology areas. Well, it was upsetting for me. I am busy all day long struggling to make my tiny machines work, and this old guy comes and charms the listeners with his descriptions of smart structures, nanotech and stuff... Hey he made me feel again as I felt during the university years, when I still had an attitude to imagination and fantasy... thanks Sam, you reminded me that engineers are not dumb bureaucrats, and that we must always keep alive our sense of dream.





RE: Stop and think
Sustainable, Solar, Environmental, and Structural Engineering: Appropriate technologies for a planet in stress.
RE: Stop and think
To say it with Nietszche (or whatever it is written like), 'One must always keep a little chaos inside himself, to be able to give birth to a dancing star.'
Cheers,
Spirit
'Ability is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.'
RE: Stop and think
RE: Stop and think
Some references about myself:
Being a ME, MSc(eng.)in Fluid & Thermo Dynamics areas, after 20 years of carreer and a Karate Shodan-grade hold in Japan, one of main strong meanings to my life, as a person, and as professional/sportsman, was given to me, by my Karate'Master,Tanaka Sensei, an that message was:
"Don't forget your first resolution, and step after step goes far"
So you have to have a very good and clear FIRST RESOLUTION in your mind. and I tell a thing: It works!, Tanaka Sensei is right! I do thank to his memory for the privilege!
Good Luck!
zzzo