“Death is an engineering problem.”

Learning means change.

The probability that the bowman’s arrow hits the deer does not lie in the arrow or the deer. It lies in the bowman’s mind.

Don’t document bad code – rewrite it.

I am so old, I entered engineering school with a slide rule. And I left engineering school with a calculator. I can still use a slide rule but it’s not a skill you especially need anymore.

When Chuck House wanted to develop the oscilloscope for HP, David Packard told him to abandon the project. Chuck went on “vacation” and came back with $2 million in orders.

Packard later gave him an award inscribed with an accolade for “extraordinary contempt and defiance beyond the normal call of engineering.”

Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.

When I was working in my first job engineering construction, what I liked the most was working with architects and making buildings that had this creative side coming from the architect and that were making them a big success.

I don’t know technology and engineering. I don’t know accounting.

I think a craft becomes an art form when the space of possible solutions becomes so huge that engineering can’t carry you through.