Optimism and stupidity are nearly synonymous.

When doing a job — any job — one must feel that he owns it, and act as though he will remain in that job forever.

The Devil is in the details, but so is salvation.

Knowing more about the public effects his work will have, the engineer ought to consider himself an "officer of the court" and keep the general interest always in mind.

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

I have the charisma of the chipmunk. I never have thought I was smart. I thought the people I dealt with were dumb.

As a guide to engineering ethics, I should like to commend to you a liberal adaptation of the injunction contained in the oath of Hippocrates that the professional man do nothing that will harm his client.