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

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous impatience. Once implemented they can be easily overturned or subverted through apathy or lack of follow-up, so a continuous effort is required.

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

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.

Act as if you are going to live for ever and cast your plans way ahead. You must feel responsible without time limitations, and the consideration of whether you may or may not be around to see the results should never enter your thoughts.

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

Those involved with practical reactors, humbled by their experiences, speak less and worry more.