The man in charge must concern himself with details. If he does not consider them important, neither will his subordinates.

Good ideas and innovations must be driven into existence by courage and patience.

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.

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

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.

It troubles me that we are so easily pressured by purveyors of technology into permitting so-called "progress" to alter our lives without attempting to control it-as if technology were an irrepressible force of nature to which we must meekly submit.

Optimism and stupidity are nearly synonymous.