. . . and in this part of the zoo, we have the Cobol programmer exhibit. These coders were thought to be extinct until around 1998, when several specimens surfaced . . .
Scott Haney, Rockwell Collins

A dot-com executive waits for the League of Women Venture Capitalists.
Steve Hershey, Hughes Network Systems

Here at 'OldIdeas.com' we hire engineers who can think inside the box.
Mike McDermott, Delphi Delco Electronics Systems

Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent 'arrested adolescence with occasional bouts of existential maturity.'
Gregory Druhak, Safari Systems

PlayStation 0.05
Orville Boston, Westinghouse

We started the company in a garage, but then we downsized.
Team EETnet: Don Swaab (Inrange Technologies) and Jim Randazzo (H&R Block).

For Sale: Santa Clara, light airy one-bedroom detached house, great view. Asking $2.7 million.
Don Deschane, Greco Systems Division e-Manufacturing Networks

After being caught cribbing on the exam, Fred was told to lay off the bottle or he'd wind up in the pen.
Michael Cook, Rockwell Collins Inc.

All right, I think I can plug this lightning arrester in now. I should be safe in this Faraday cage.
Ken Whiteleather, Sparton Electronics

Hardware support from cradle to grave.
Rich Rotondo, RAD Datacom

Rubic's Cubicle
Everett Groff, Luminous Networks

When they told me this job would be child's-play, I should have believed them!
Fred Myers, Syscon International

These upgraded corporate security measures are driving me crazy. Especially this new access card. I can't figure out how to open the door. . .
Gus Calabrese

I'm sorry. But the company's on-site child care center cannot be used to keep track of certain engineers.
Toby Fredrickson, Xilinx

The Harvard Business School freshman works on his Forecasting 101 assignment.
Joseph M. Kusmiss, Mitre Corp.

Young engineers are often encumbered by their inability to think outside the box.
Philip Mooney, Agere Systems

A Microsoft engineer testing out the company's next-generation sandbox for security in the Internet Explorer Web browser.
Peter Kertzner, Mitre Corp.

Poor Joe. He used to work for eToys.com.
Yi-Hsien Doo, Conexant Systems Inc.

Refusing to accept the fact that the presidential election is over, the sunshine boy is still counting . . .
Sean Fan, IDT

Nursery rhymes of the engineer: 'Twinkle, twinkle little star, Power equals I-squared R . . .'
Sheri Hurt, Honeywell

I thought that recruiter had simply misspoken when he said I'd be programming Java in the playpen.
David C. Barber, Vanguard Technical Solutions

searched www.dice.com for 'Pen Computing Engineer' and this is the job I got!
Mike O'Dorney, Agilent Technologies

Lemme see, we connect these EMI beads together, and we can shake this sceptre to simulate this ladder-adder design . . .
Ron Kendig, Avanti Corp.

. . . and all I need now is an abacus and a shot of tequila.
Migwel Vasquez, Frequency Management

George, with a child-like understanding of matrix management, went to the wrong man for his next assignment.
Matthew S. Brennesholtz, Philips Components

They told me when I started in the toy business that every engineer gets an office with a view. They weren't kidding!.
Chuck Mahoney, Fisher-Price Brands

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