Engineering words of wisdom

At work, looking for engineering design courses at other universities so we can interview the profs. Came across this little tid-bit by a teaching assistant at Purdue, who credits it to another source, The Fullness of Wings.

• Part of the art of being a good engineer is knowing where to steal good ideas.
• There is no perfectly optimized design because you can not account for every aerodynamic effect on an airplane. Get it good enough and get on with it.
• The best way to solve an engineering problem is to guess the right answer.
• Any damn fool can figure out another way to do it. The first solution to a problem is often entirely adequate.
• If you can't fix it, feature it.