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Ardent 2: Get Out of My Building

Steve Blank

Marketing is Heard From Engineering was discussing how sophisticated the graphics portion of our computer should be, debating cost and time-to-market tradeoffs of arcane details such as double-buffering, 24 versus 32-bits of color, alpha channels, etc.

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Gravity Will be Turned Off « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

My best story there pales in comparison with yours, but it was fun NTL: a captain was telling us about being creative, and when he was in the Academy, they had figured out the best way to get a shine on the floors: instead of just using the floor buffer, they found an extra wool blanket, cut it up, and put a square of it under the buffer.