Human experience shows that people, not organizations or management systems, get things done

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.

The Devil is in the details, but so is salvation.

A system under which it takes three men to check what one is doing is not control; it is systematic strangulation.

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.

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

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