Author: W1SEG

When very good physicists are wrong, they are not wrong for silly reasons, they are wrong for good reasons, and we can learn a lot from their thinking.—Barton Zwiebach

Hacks are the product of exploiting the gap in awareness between how the system is believed to function and how the system functions, in fact.—Ed Snowden

Regardless of how much you plan, you have to be willing to accept the idea of failure.—James Cameron

To be completely risk-averse is never to take off.—James Lovell

There are a few interesting parallels between the sinking of the Titanic and the loss of the Columbia Space Shuttle and her crew. In both cases, there were unheeded warnings. In both cases, the warnings were dismissed, not out of negligence, but for reasons that made sense based on the experience and institutional memory at…

Fail well and fail fast and move on.—Giovanni Traverso

In my experience, speed often correlates with excellence, because it forces pragmatic design choices and extrudes incompetence from the organization.—Casey Handmer

Engineering is very different from science. We work around science.—Aart de Geus

But it’s okay if you make mistakes and it’s okay if you fail. The next time you do it, maybe you won’t make the same mistake.—Joe Johnston

No question is too big to ask.—Mary-Claire King