Author: W1SEG

A critical part of our success is our willingness to fail in ways that won’t compromise the mission, as long as we are constantly learning from our failures.—Jeff Dexter, SpaceX software team

I don’t know what kind of HDL most ASIC designers will use in the year 2010, but it will be called ‘Verilog’.—Steve Golson, in 2002 Hey, I was right!—Steve Golson, in 2020

Physics is easy, people are hard. And regulator people are the hard-est.—Gwynne Shotwell

Understanding how to operate a complicated piece of machinery is not the same as understanding how a complicated piece of machinery operates.—Lucas Page

If you have a feature on a chip, and it isn’t paying its way, you should throw it out.—Gene Hill

In anything at all, perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

For design to be understood by everyone – which good design should strive to do – it should be as simple as possible.—Dieter Rams

Put kindness first.—Karen Pryor

I know you have different views, but we all love Texas.—Patrice Pike, onstage at Saxon Pub in Austin

I’ve always thought the fact that Boggs was a ham radio operator was important. It had a great impact on the way the Ethernet was designed, because the Ethernet fundamentally doesn’t work reliably. It’s like citizens’ band radio, or any of the other kinds of radio communication, which are fundamentally not reliable in the way…