Machine Directive Simplicity

Table of Contents

• Understanding and Simplicity
• Inventiveness and Experimentation
• Instruction and Learning
• Trial and Error
• Innovation and Improvement
• Complexity and Challenges
• Practical Application
• Creative Process
• Other

Understanding and Simplicity

it occurred to me what a simple thing reality is, how easy it is to make it work. It's just reality. Just housework. Just a home. Like running a simple machine. Once you learn to run it, it's just a matter of repetition. You push this button and pull that lever. You adjust a gauge, put on the lid, set the timer. The same thing, over and over.

It is like operating a new washing machine or videodisc player, all lights and buttons. You have to know how to operate it before you can understand the instruction booklet (it was written by someone who already knew).

The owner's manual will tell someone everything they need to know and what to look for.

You don't have to know how to build an automobile or a television set or a laptop to know how to use it.

I just want things to work properly.

Put aside your need for a step-by-step manual and instead realize that analogies are your best friend.

It's as simple as telling the machine what to do, to create the parts we need.

I hate having to read the manual.

It's like setting up a DVD player. It's super simple.

I must run the machine as I find it.

When all else fails, read the instructions.

I'm a great believer in the principle of try it and work it out. If a gadget is designed well, you can easily work out how to use it. But if you can't, it isn't shameful to read the instructions.

Inventiveness and Experimentation

If you think you’ve invented something, ask yourself three questions:1) Has it been done before?2) Why hasn’t it been done before?3) Is it worth doing?If your invention passes these three tests, you’re good to go.

Knowing I needed to build some counters, I began by putting together a good vacuum system and a pumping system to build ion chambers of some sort.

I wasn't really sure that my implementation of it would be what really took off, but fortunately I was able to get a prototype done.

I developed this thing probably 10 years ago out of frustration of forever having to take my truck box in and out. Then I applied for the patent a couple of years ago.

I also taught myself how to blow glass using a propane torch from the hardware store and managed to make some elementary chemistry plumbing such as tees and small glass bulbs.

The best way to figure out how something works is to try to build it from scratch.

I had to go through failures in order to learn how to do it.

Perhaps the most important thing I can tell you about equipment is to experiment and keep an open mind.

You can't make experimental work by copying past work.

We have created well over 100 units of instruction and posted them on the BMW web site. They are available to anybody who wants to use it. You do not have to go and reinvent the wheel.

As with any product, the instructions are very important.

I am donating the sweater machine to the church and hope to find someone to teach how to use the machine before I leave. It's not hard. I taught myself with a lot of notes and trial and error.

Instruction and Learning

We don't know what we can achieve because no instruction manual accompanies our birth

You feel like if they just read the manual first ... If we had a manual, that is.

People hate to and will not read instructions.

Spaceship Earth: The problem for the passengers is that there is no manual to identify all the parts, and no instructions on how to operate the spaceship.

The reality is it was too complicated. We had stuff that worked great when it was used properly.

I simply couldn't make it without a copilot.

This is a machine and anything can go wrong with it.

I began developing the plug-in collection because of several severe shortcomings in Finale that were causing me many hours of tedious manual work.

We're all squished in trying to figure out how to make it work.

This is the rock 'n' roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.

I had no idea how the system worked. All I knew was what I saw on TV. It's much different.

I'm trying to learn more and more about what's possible.

Trial and Error

Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.

This is cleaning house and taking care of business. The way the system is supposed to work.

I am the primitive of the method I have invented.

I showed him how to do it, how to work in TV. There's a formula. Richard ran with it.

I've always worked on the machines, especially the 125 and 250 which are really difficult to set up.

I developed the Clock Theory to help me time records; you know, spin the record back two revolutions or whatever and then play the break, spin the other one back two, play, like that.

We decided, there at the end, to just use it to work on some things. So we got some good out of it.

How could you do something like this and why?

The class worked on this together. The rest of these things come from home.

I had to go through failures in order to learn how to do it.

I’m trying to do something that I have kind’ve a clue how to do.

I know a helluva lot. I’m not the only one who knows these things. Many people know more than I do. That’s fortunately not my problem. My problem is what I am supposed to use it for. What do I do with it? It’s confusing.

Innovation and Improvement

I have written ever since I knew mechanically how to do it.

An expert is someone who can tell you exactly how it can't be done.

I'm not an inventor. I just want to make things better.

Cézanne made a cylinder out of a bottle. I start from the cylinder to create a special kind of individual object. I make a bottle a particular bottle out of a cylinder.

I didn't do the engineering, and I didn't do the math, because I thought I understood what was going on and I thought I made a good rig. But I was wrong. I should have done it.

It's really a model for how to do these things.

I didn't really know how to do it either until we took a class.

"Every set up that you do, everything is precisely modulated and raised and lowered.—"

If it's not working, you need to know that, ... and if it is working, you need to know that, too.

You get a bunch of ideas. Like dropping it, putting in a sound system and performance parts. You even get to learn the tricks people have tried.

This is a real inventor. This is somebody who really tried to put it into practice.

I realize I'm not a machine. I'm going to make mistakes.

Complexity and Challenges

If you have a machine with three or four parts, you can shake them up in a box and it's still pretty clear what's there. If you have a machine with 10,000 parts and you shake them up in a box, what you have is a box of junk.

Unfortunately in the past, if you had a special need, you had to adapt to the machine.

The reality is it was too complicated. We had stuff that worked great when it was used properly.

If it has a motor in it then I've done it,

If you have a hammer, use it everywhere you can, but I do not claim that everything is fractal.

But, when you have to resort to turntables, trick lights, flashing lights, fire and all that, you're actually saying, I need this because what I do is not all that together.

It's like I'm doing triage in a MASH unit.

It's amazing how complicated a relatively small boat gets. We've created a lot of complex systems in a small package.

Before leaving camp in 1902 we were already at work on the general design of a new machine which we proposed to propel with a motor.

But, when you have to resort to turntables, trick lights, flashing lights, fire and all that, you’re actually saying, I need this because what I do is not all that together.

Wozniak: Well, we added up to the total everything that was needed. If there was anything that neither one of us knew how to do, Steve would do it. He’d just find a way to do it. He was just gung ho and pressing for this company to be successful. And me, I was pretty much only in my technical head with the circuits.

As a child, I wanted to know how things worked and to control them. With a friend, I built a number of complicated models that I could control.

Practical Application

Nature has given us a supercomputer but no manual on how to use it fully.

Still, this whole grim reaper thing should have come with a manual. Or a diagram of some kind. A flowchart would have been nice.

Press the button, pump the water, build the pressure, push the piston, press the button. It's the perfect job.

To add an AC outlet, for example, you just drill a circular hole in the wall, tap into the wiring, add the outlet and you're set. If you don't want it, pull it out and plaster over it with more earth to seal the hole.

We are trying to take the machines to the people and show them how easy they are to use.

You just heat the crystal from room temperature to about 130 degrees. Then you can use it while it's heating or while it's cooling. We're doing it while it's cooling. We're letting it cool back to room temperature, and while it's doing that it's accelerating ions, so it's like a particle accelerator that's very simple.

But the question is how does it work?

I bought a crystal ball, and I wanted to use it, but I didn't know how, and I wouldn't use it until I developed a technique to use it that was truthful.

I didn't know how I would use it.

Just fill in the box and put it in the machine.

The way Elon talks about this is that you always need to start with the first principles of a problem. What are the physics of it? How much time will it take? How much will it cost? How much cheaper can I make it?

I used to work as a logger, which is the lowest of the low, you just had to type up what happens.

Creative Process

Before we even discovered that we were so smart, our Manufacturer already had it all figured out.

In memory of Terry Pratchett,who showed us all how it’s done

It has to be done by hand. This goes back more to high school physics than it does to modern rigging.

I didn't want it to have any technical virtuosity; I wanted it to just be really clear how it was made. For my work in general, it's always really clear how it is made.

I’m not an inventor. I just want to make things better.

You need to come with a goddamn YouTube instructional video.

This is the rock ‘n’ roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.

An expert is someone who can tell you exactly how it can’t be done.

Press the button, pump the water, build the pressure, push the piston, press the button. It’s the perfect job.

I did all sorts of things that you wouldn't normally find on an engineer's docket, but it made an educated person out of me.

I don't know how to work the computer.

I don't know what the creative process is. I don't know how to trick it into starting or how to egg it on.

Other

I don't like this idea of Method. I come from that school, but what I was taught was that it's your imagination. You do your homework, and you use your imagination.

To add an AC outlet, for example, you just drill a circular hole in the wall, tap into the wiring, add the outlet and you’re set. If you don’t want it, pull it out and plaster over it with more earth to seal the hole.

The very first thing I ever did, I was doing some work for the French Cultural Center. They wanted a little recording set up. And I got wire. A wire recorder. The wire came off spools, and to cut and edit, you tied it together in little square knots. Can you imagine?

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