Quotes of the week

Quotes of the week

Posted Sep 30, 2013 12:03 UTC (Mon) by jzbiciak (✭ supporter ✭, #5246)
In reply to: Quotes of the week by sitaram
Parent article: Quotes of the week

I found it amusing as well, especially since he touches on several topics I have to deal with regularly as an SoC architect. The quote above is particularly amusing, since we're dealing with rising FIT rates in our chips. A later quote was even more amusing to me:

All of these techniques could be implemented. However, John slowly realized that these solutions were just things that he could do, and inventing “a thing that you could do” is a low bar for human achievement.

Sometimes it feels that way, when you're looking at techniques to detect errors in silicon and prevent them from causing a safety issue, for example. "Yep, that's definitely 'a thing that you could do.'"

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