The two entrepreneurs felt great about their chances
after being selected by the QED Proof - of - Concept
Program in Philadelphia, but they soon learned their second major lesson: Don't get
stuck thinking that your only options lie
with the original idea.
He was an optical engineer who repaired aircraft instruments in Alaska in WWII, a mountain man who could turn a canoe into a sailboat
with a folding machete, bed sheets and a few
sticks, who taught me diffraction, color theory and relativity on paper when other kids were learning multiplication tables, who designed a potentiometer that went to the Moon by pointing the world's fastest camera at the world's fastest oscilloscope, who designed those traffic lights which only appear bright when you are in the appropriate lane, who didn't have to help me at all when I built my own Heathkit dual - channel scope in grade school, nor had to help me
program my Apple II in machine language, who quit Honeywell to work for 3M when the Space Program turned into the nuclear missile program, who studied mining geology in college after growing up in a mining town in Utah, it was he who taught me, early on: make sure your contraption
program my Apple II in machine language, who quit Honeywell to work for 3M when the Space
Program turned into the nuclear missile program, who studied mining geology in college after growing up in a mining town in Utah, it was he who taught me, early on: make sure your contraption
Program turned into the nuclear missile
program, who studied mining geology in college after growing up in a mining town in Utah, it was he who taught me, early on: make sure your contraption
program, who studied mining geology in college
after growing up in a mining town in Utah, it was he who taught me, early on: make sure your contraption works!