Author: W1SEG

I wish to acknowledge the unknown designers of single-chip microcomputers. They were not bound by dogma and were able to understand the unique architectural needs of their products.—Harvey Cragon

If somebody can show that we’re wrong, that would be great. If somebody can explain: “There is a way to make your design better,” this is a gift! I would be like, “Thank you for this great gift! Wow this is awesome!” The worst thing would be like, “We want to do a dumb design…

My whole life has been spent trying to teach people that intense concentration for hour after hour can bring out resources in people that they didn’t know they had.—Edwin Land, Forbes, 1 June 1975

Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than an exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.—John W. Tukey

There is no doubt that the grail of efficiency leads to abuse. Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attempts at efficiency actually have a strong negative impact when debugging and maintenance are considered. We should forget about small efficiencies, say…

I get what I call a minimum viable solution. I don’t really understand why it works, but somehow it works, so we’re going to use it, we’re going to monetize it, we’re going to make it work.—Bill Gerstenmaier

If you keep things simple, you can build it faster.—Phil Moorby

There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.—Peter F. Drucker

Speed isn’t everything, but it’s kilometers ahead of whatever is in second place.—Edward M. McCreight

Some mistakes will be made along the way. That’s good! Because at least some decisions are being made along the way. And we’ll find the mistakes, we’ll fix them.—Steve Jobs