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Those involved with practical reactors, humbled by their experiences, speak less and worry more.
Hyman Rickover
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Hyman Rickover
Age: 86 †
Born: 1900
Born: January 27
Died: 1986
Died: July 8
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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.
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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 bosom.
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I believe it is the duty of each of us to act as if the fate of the world depended on him. Admittedly, one man by himself cannot do the job. However, one man can make a difference. We must live for the future of the human race, and not for our own comfort or success.
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Be ever questioning. Ignorance is not bliss. It is oblivion. You don't go to heaven if you die dumb. Become better informed. Lean from others' mistakes. You could not live long enough to make them all yourself.
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Free discussion requires an atmosphere unembarrassed by any suggestion of authority or even respect.
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I have a son. I love my son. I want everything that I do to be so safe that I would be happy to have my son operating it. That's my fundamental rule.
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Any one detail, followed through to its source, will usually reveal the general state of readiness of the whole organization.
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All new ideas begin in a non-conforming mind that questions some tenet of the conventional wisdom.
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A child is being properly educated only when he is learning to become independent of his parents.
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