Author: W1SEG

There is more to Maine than exists in the imagination.—John McPhee

Whatever requirement or constraint you have, it must come with a name, not a department.—Elon Musk

I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered! My life is my own.—The Prisoner

Only accurate rifles are interesting.—Col. Townsend Whelen, USA (Ret’d)

Possibly the most common error of a smart engineer, is to optimize a thing that should not exist.—Elon Musk

In the South, eating has little to do with hunger.—Willie Traynor

I conclude that there are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.—Tony Hoare

Make your requirements less dumb. Your requirements are definitely dumb.—Elon Musk

Devices can be made foolproof, but not damn-fool-proof.—Henry Petroski

Failure is central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation. Successful engineering is all about understanding how things break or fail.—Henry Petroski