Top Highlights

• Do not automatically reject every crazy idea the moment you hear of it, especially when it comes from outside the official circle of the insiders—it may be the great new approach which will change the paradigm of the field!
• “Luck favors the prepared mind.”
• Education is what, when, and why to do things. Training is how to do it.
• How are you to recognize “fundamentals”? One test is they have lasted a long time. Another test is from the fundamentals all the rest of the field can be derived by using the standard methods in the field.
• In science, if you know what you are doing, you should not be doing it. In engineering, if you do not know what you are doing, you should not be doing it.