Author: W1SEG

A significant amount of time doing ham radio will be spent untying knots in ropes.—Mark K1RX

It’s of no use whatsoever. This is just an experiment that proves Maestro Maxwell was right—we just have these mysterious electromagnetic waves that we cannot see with the naked eye. But they are there.—Heinrich Hertz

I think mostly I tend to believe important things get done by small groups of people who all know all about the whole project. That is, in those days all the software people knew something about hardware, and all the hardware people programmed. It wasn’t a group of unconnected people. It was a set of…

The number of people having any connection with the project must be restricted in an almost vicious manner. Use a small number of good people.—Kelly Johnson

Last week CDC had a press conference during which they officially announced their 6600 system. I understand that in the laboratory developing this system there are only 34 people, “including the janitor.” Of these, 14 are engineers and 4 are programmers, and only one person has a Ph.D.… Contrasting this modest effort with our own…

A good rule for rocket experimenters to follow is this: always assume that it will explode.—G. Edward Pendray, Astronautics, October 1937

Then they asked, then exactly what are you going to do? I had to answer, I don’t know, that is why it is research.—Albert Szent-Györgyi