There are four engineers traveling in a car — a mechanical engineer, a chemical engineer, an electrical engineer, and a computer engineer. The car breaks down.
“Sounds to me as if the pistons have seized. We’ll have to strip down the engine before we can get the car working again”, says the mechanical engineer.
“Well”, says the chemical engineer, “it sounded to me as if the fuel might be contaminated. I think we should clear out the fuel system.”
“I thought it might be an grounding problem”, says the electrical engineer, “or maybe a faulty plug lead.”
They all turn to the computer engineer, who up to then had said nothing, and asked “Well, what do you think?”
“Ummm . . . perhaps if we all get out of the car and get back in again?”
via Jill
A mathematician and a physicist are sitting at lunch arguing, as they often do, over whose department is cooler. The mathematician says, “I don’t understand you physicists. You eat up so much of the University’s budget funding your outrageous experiments. You buy cyclotrons, electron microscopes, and orbital sattelites for god’s sake. All we mathematicians need is paper, pencil, and wastebaskets.”
At this point, the philosopher at th enext table, who has been eavesdropping as he often does, can’t help but chime in.
“Ha! All WE need is pencil and paper!”