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

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

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

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.

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

All men are by nature conservative but conservatism in the military profession is a source of danger to the country. One must be ready to change his line sharply and suddenly, with no concern for the prejudices and memories of what was yesterday. To rest upon formula is a slumber that, prolonged, means death.