“我【在1967年】刚进入麻省理工时，学校里只有一台电脑；要进入电脑房你必须得使点手段，通常只有工程师才能使用电脑。” 他回忆说。

“When I came to MIT [in 1967] it had one computer; you needed influence to get inside the building and you had to be an engineer to use it, ” he recalls.

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但其他公司，比如通用电气和塔塔的化工品分支，已将节俭工程技术广泛应用以生产廉价产品，并取得了重大成功。

But other companies, such as General Electric and Tata's chemicals arm, have applied frugal engineering techniques to produce cheap products with great success.

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“省去了变速箱，也就意味着不需要更换机油了，”通用电气公司的工程师加里·默瑟介绍说。

"Get rid of the gearbox, and now you don't have to change the oil," says ge engineer Gary Mercer.

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