Chuck Carrell:
CLASS OF 2008
Los Rios CollegeClass of 2008
Sacramento, CA
Chuck's Story
Chuck is from Auburn, California. Chuck works(ed) at Global Energy Innovation.
Books Chuck likes include The Bible. Movies Chuck likes include Monty Python & the Holy Grail, The Jungle Book, A Beautiful Mind. TV shows Chuck likes include The Amazing Race, The Middle, Raising Hope.
One of Chuck's favorite quotes is:""If you really want to understand how something works, build it yourself."
Jim Williams (1948 â 2011)
Electronics experimenter/guru
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls, and looks like work."
Thomas Edison (1847 - -1931)
Entrepreneur and inventor
"Opporknockity tunes but once."
Don Lancaster,
electronics guru and author, Jan 18th, 2009
âThe secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.â
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Author and humorist
"It's pretty clear nowadays a college education doesn't always get you a job, but it almost always gets you in debt."
Korva Coleman,
Host, Tell Me More, NPR
âThe person who knows HOW will always have a job.
The person who knows WHY will always be his boss.â
Alanis Morissette (1974 - )
Singer, song-writer, producer and actress
"It's only the last turn of a bolt that tightens it - the rest is just movement."
Shigeo Shingo (1909 - 1990)
Productivity consultant, industrial engineer
"Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage. The easiest of all wastes and the hardest to correct is the waste of time, because wasted time does not litter the floor like wasted material."
Henry Ford (1863 - 1947)
Inventor, manufacturer, capitalist
"The design process is about whittling away distractions, making the obscure feel obvious, making the obvious feel implicit, and doing it without anyone noticing. To the untrained eye, your best work looks like you've done no work at all. If you've done a stellar job, then your design will feel utterly obvious."
Neil Mix,
The Elegance Paradox
"The Law of Ideality explains that the amount of complexity in a system is a measure of how far away it is from its ideal sta...Expand for more
te. In fact, upon reaching perfect ideality, the mechanism itself no longer exists. Only the function remains. Sort of like doing away with a can opener and using a pop-top instead."
Dan Ward,
The Simplicity Cycle, 2008
"How loved, how valu'd once, avails you not,
To whom related, or by whom begot,
A heap of dust alone remains to be,
Of all you are and all the great shall be."
Tombstone epitaph, author unknown
Sierra County, CA 6,300 ft.
Teacher: "The Baghdad Battery was composed of an earthen-ware jar, two dissimilar metals and a liquid electrolyte. The electrolyte may have been wine, vinegar, citrus juice or, maybe...I don't know... waste body fluid."
Student: "Yes, waste body fluids would have worked. I peed on an electric fence once and got a really bad shock."
âTrue terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.â
Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007)
Author
"The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog.
The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment."
Warren G. Bennis (1925 - )
Author, scholar
"My precious."
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
"I could dance with you till the cows come home...On second thought, I'd rather dance with the cows when you came home."
(Groucho Marx, Duck Soup (1933))
"Do you understand the words that are comin' out of my mouth?"
Rush Hour (1998)
"One morning, I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas, I don't know."
Animal Crackers (1930)
"I've got a good mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it."
Duck Soup (1933)
"Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, you can't fool me! There ain't no Sanity Claus!"
A Night at the Opera (1935)
Vikings: [singing] Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam! Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam! Lovely Spam, wonderful Spam!
Monty Python's Flying Circus (Span)1970
Ulysses Everett McGill: Say, any of you boys smithies? Or, if not smithies per se, were you otherwise trained in the metallurgic arts before straitened circumstances forced you into a life of aimless wanderin'?
Ulysses Everett McGill: Baptism! You two are just dumber than a bag of hammers!
Ulysses Everett McGill: Well, ain't this place a geographical oddity. Two weeks from everywhere!
Washington Hogwallop: Mrs. Hogwallop up and R-U-N-N-O-F-T
Washington Hogwallop: I slaughtered this horse last Tuesday. I think it's startin' to turn.
Ulysses Everett McGill: I am the paterfamilias, I have spread my seed!
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)".
Register for Free to view all details!
Reunions
Register for Free to start a reunion event!
Photos