I believe it is the duty of each of us to act as if the fate of the world depended on him. Admittedly, one man by himself cannot do the job. However, one man can make a difference. We must live for the future of the human race, and not for our own comfort or success.

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous impatience.

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

All new ideas begin in a non-conforming mind that questions some tenet of the conventional wisdom.

Free discussion requires an atmosphere unembarrassed by any suggestion of authority or even respect.

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.

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