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 ….

When the men in Russia foul up, they are dismisses, sometimes losing their necks. But we protect those who fail and press them to the government boso….

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

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

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous impatience. Once implemented they can be easily overturne….

Above all, we should bear in mind that our liberty is not an end in itself; it is a means to win respect for human dignity for all classes of our soc….

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

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

More than ambition, more than ability, it is rules that limit contribution; rules are the lowest common denominator of human behavior. They are a sub….

Optimism and stupidity are nearly synonymous..

How the hell are you supposed to know what God wants you to do with your life, eh?.

All men are by nature conservative but conservatism in the military profession is a source of danger to the country. One must be ready to change his ….

I do not have regrets. I believe I helped preserve the peace for this country. Why should I regret that? What I accomplished was approved by Congress….

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

Success teaches us nothing; only failure teaches..

When doing a job — any job — one must feel that he owns it, and act as though he will remain in that job forever..

It is a human inclination to hope things will work out, despite evidence or doubt to the contrary. A successful manager must resist this temptation..

Trying to make things work in government is sometimes like trying to sew a button on a custard pie..

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

It troubles me that we are so easily pressured by purveyors of technology into permitting so-called "progress" to alter our lives without attempting ….

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 inter….