Reflections on science, technology, and computing — leavened by personal experience


If you cannot recreate an idea from its elementary components, you do not really understand it — knowing something is not the same as knowing the name of something.

The next time you see a small child, staring in wide eyed, open mouthed wonder at some action or object, remember and savor the experience. It is why you are a scientist or an engineer, asking questions and staring in amazement at the answers the experiments reveal, still a child at heart.