A system under which it takes three men to check what one is doing is not control; it is systematic strangulation.

If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.

The tools of the academic designer are a piece of paper and a pencil with an eraser. If a mistake is made, it can always be erased and changed. If the practical-reactor designer errs, he wears the mistake around his neck; it cannot be erased. Everyone sees it.

Thoughts arising from practical experience may be a bridle or a spur.

Success teaches us nothing; only failure teaches.

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous impatience. Once implemented they can be easily overturned or subverted through apathy or lack of follow-up, so a continuous effort is required.

The devil is in the details, and everything we do in the military is a detail.