Bill Hammack
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“Melvin Kranzberg, a historian, once observed “technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral.”
― Eight Amazing Engineering Stories: Using the Elements to Create Extraordinary Technologies
― Eight Amazing Engineering Stories: Using the Elements to Create Extraordinary Technologies
“Georges Claude made a fortune from his neon signs, but lost most of it in the 1930s with hair brained schemes to make electricity using the temperature difference between the top of the ocean and its icy depths. He almost ended his career imprisoned for life.”
― How Engineers Create the World: The Public Radio Commentaries of Bill Hammack
― How Engineers Create the World: The Public Radio Commentaries of Bill Hammack
“And Moore’s Law gave us bad software: Instead of writing efficient code, programmers just waited until the computers got faster. I’m reminded of Blaise Pascal’s comment three centuries ago. Apologizing for a verbose letters he wrote “I have only made this [letter] longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter.”
― How Engineers Create the World: The Public Radio Commentaries of Bill Hammack
― How Engineers Create the World: The Public Radio Commentaries of Bill Hammack

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