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.

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

Any one detail, followed through to its source, will usually reveal the general state of readiness of the whole organization.

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

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.

We bury the men who do the nation's creative work under layers of administrators and mountains of memoranda. We shrivel creativity by endless frustrations.