Quotes from John Bloom

We should always remember," Candy concluded solemnly, "that what we are is not what we plan for ourselves, but what God plans for us.

But if you express your pride in me, then I feel reassured that I am really important.… I need to be reassured and told this often, just as I need to see and feel tangible evidence of your love.…

Stamp was also innovative about his assembly line, setting up his factory in Chandler so that the satellites were built horizontally instead of vertically. That meant the assemblers could work at waist level, whereas on military satellites, the technicians stood on ladders and leaned over. He trained Lockheed Martin in the new technique, then later bragged about it to his friends at Khrunichev in Moscow, only to be told, "We've done it that way for forty years.

CDMA—better known as frequency hopping, or "spread spectrum"—was a way to use multiple frequencies to send the same signal. This system was invented by Hedy Lamarr, the actress, and would become the industry standard.19