Half-truths are like half a brick - they can be thrown farther.

A child is being properly educated only when he is learning to become independent of his parents.

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

I suggest that this is a good time to think soberly about our responsibilities to our descendents - those who will ring out the Fossil Fuel Age. Our greatest responsibility, as parents and as citizens, is to give America's youngsters the best possible education. We need the best teachers and enough of them to prepare our young people for a future immeasurably more complex than the present, and calling for ever larger numbers of competent and highly trained men and women.

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.

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

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