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

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.

When the men in Russia foul up, they are dismisses, sometimes losing their necks. But we protect those who fail and press them to the government bosom.

Good ideas and innovations must be driven into existence by courage and patience.

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.

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.