Author: W1SEG

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

If everybody whose experiments didn’t work, left science? There would be no one left.—Allan Wilson

Our job today, is not to do better than they did at spaceflight, it’s to make it more affordable.—Jeff Bezos

As the people here grow colderI turn to my computerAnd spend my evenings with itLike a friend.—Kate Bush

I didn’t move to Maine to do big things. I did big things because I moved to Maine.—Bernard Langlais

Delay there must be, due to the virtually inevitable snags, for up to a point it is better to let the snags be there than to spend such time in design that there are none (how many decades would this course take?).—Alan Turing

He is a genius, but one has to check his calculations before one can accept them.—Gustav Kirchhoff, speaking about James Clerk Maxwell

It must be emphasized that the machine does not think for itself. It may exercise some degree of judgment and discrimination, but the situations in which these are required, the criteria to be applied, and the actions to be taken according to the criteria, have all to be forseen in the program of operating instructions…

When faced with a crisis, focus on one thing at a time.—Charley Stevens

The group developing VM/370 Release 1 produced at least a thousand lines of code per person per month, to the astonishment of IBM’s auditors, and they managed to enjoy themselves while they were doing it.—Melinda Varian