the car starts to smoke and stops ...

presentation(s) / understanding / failure(s)


  • physicist -- This is obviously a classic problem of torque. It has overloaded the elasticity limit of the main axis.
  • engineer -- Let's be serious! The matter is that it has burned the spark of the connecting rod to the dynamo of the radiator. I can easily repair it by hammering.
  • computer scientist -- What if we get off the car, wait a minute, and then get in and try again?

quoted from Henry Petrosky -- Success through Failure / joke(s)