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Thoughts about chip and software design
 (politbyro reinvented)
- Why the companies with 20 chip designers need new people?

- Just putting library modules together without understanding how it works doesn't help.

- This semi-operational software is a big trap. Old release is replaced by new bugs. Write your own program.

- What you can change in software within 2 weeks ?

- Usage of same hr person for multiple locations just contains the bs.

- Software will always change. Wireless technology is key component.

- Watching TV commercials for 40 years means the people missed the whole thing.

- Doing things for fame is always better than doing it for whatever else.

- People are not plug-in. Company with tradition can do something. Company without tradition produce monkey-products. The best Spectrum Analyzer comes from R&S.

- "Fools you are... to say you learn by your experience .... I prefer to profit by other's mistakes and avoid the price of my own." - Otto von Bismarck, 19th Century Prussian Chancellor.

- "If you give it a circuit that doesn't work well enough, how does it generate a circuit that works better? "Oh, it doesn't. "What's All This Analog Stuff, Anyhow"? Bob Peace, National Semi.

- The "de Vries's" syndrome (Maxim) says about "special people": "Surround yourself by dumb people to ensure your safety".

- Prof Stephen H., Aachen :
"Usally people first think, and then talk"."here they first talk, then they think".

- The customer doesn't care "how it looks" but "how it works". Marketing and sales cause constipation.

- Peter's Managment Syndrome: "Managers rise up, till they reach point of their full incompetence".







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