W1SEG

Amateur Radio Station


  • There are a few interesting parallels between the sinking of the Titanic and the loss of the Columbia Space Shuttle and her crew. In both cases, there were unheeded warnings. In both cases, the warnings were dismissed, not out of negligence, but for reasons that made sense based on the experience and institutional memory at that moment.
    —James Cameron


quote Hopper always done it

I think the saddest phrase I ever hear in a computer installation is that horrible one: “But we’ve always done it that way.” That’s a forbidden phrase in my office. To emphasize the fact I keep a clock which operates entirely counterclockwise.
—Grace Hopper

W1SEG Amateur Radio Station


quote Hopper always done it

I think the saddest phrase I ever hear in a computer installation is that horrible one: “But we’ve always done it that way.” That’s a forbidden phrase in my office. To emphasize the fact I keep a clock which operates entirely counterclockwise.
—Grace Hopper


  • There are a few interesting parallels between the sinking of the Titanic and the loss of the Columbia Space Shuttle and her crew. In both cases, there were unheeded warnings. In both cases, the warnings were dismissed, not out of negligence, but for reasons that made sense based on the experience and institutional memory at that moment.
    —James Cameron