38. Capabilities drive requirements, regardless of what the systems engineering textbooks say.
I've been thinking about this one lately - What do we want to do? What can we do?
43. You really understand something the third time you see it (or the first time you teach it.)
I'd like to say something like: any learning you do before you start working on something is just familiarization. You can read the book 10 times, but the real learning starts when you pick up the tools.
8. In nature, the optimum is almost always in the middle somewhere. Distrust assertions that the optimum is at an extreme point.
Ah, but the middle of WHAT? How to tell if your data is skewed?
18. Past experience is excellent for providing a reality check. Too much reality can doom an otherwise worthwhile design, though.
> When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
I've been thinking about this one lately - What do we want to do? What can we do?
43. You really understand something the third time you see it (or the first time you teach it.)
I'd like to say something like: any learning you do before you start working on something is just familiarization. You can read the book 10 times, but the real learning starts when you pick up the tools.
8. In nature, the optimum is almost always in the middle somewhere. Distrust assertions that the optimum is at an extreme point.
Ah, but the middle of WHAT? How to tell if your data is skewed?
18. Past experience is excellent for providing a reality check. Too much reality can doom an otherwise worthwhile design, though.
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2018/11/28/possible/
> When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
Stated otherwise: