“Spaceflight will never tolerate carelessness, incapacity, and neglect. Somewhere, somehow, we screwed up. It could have been in design, build, or test. Whatever it was, we should have caught it. We were too gung ho about the schedule and we locked out all of the problems we saw each day in our work. Every element of the program was in trouble and so were we. The simulators were not working, Mission Control was behind in virtually every area, and the flight and test procedures changed daily.” ShouldHas BeensProblemBehindsSawsTroubleDesignChangedElementsAreasProgramShould HaveTestsSafetyCaughtMissionsFlightEach DayAviationNeglectLockedTolerateSchedulesCould Have BeenProceduresScrewed UpCarelessnessIncapacitySpaceflight Book:Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond Source: Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond
“I would like to suggest to you that the extent to which government in America has departed from the original design of in habiting the destructive actions of man and invoking a common justice; the extent to which government has invaded the productive and creative areas; the extent to which the government in this country has assumed the responsibility for the security, welfare, and prosperity of our people is a measure of the extent to which socialism has developed here in this land of ours.” PeopleMenCountryGovernmentActionAmericaJusticeCommonResponsibilityCreativeLandSecurityDesignAreasOriginalsProsperitySocialismWelfareDestructiveProductiveDeparted Author:Leonard Read
“We worked with the engineers in the design and construction and testing phases in those various areas, then we would get back together at the end of the week and brief each other as to what had gone on.” EndsTogetherGoneWeekDesignAreasVariousGet BackConstructionEngineersPhasesTestingBack Together Author:Alan Shepard
“I am not concerned with simply surviving. I am very concerned about improving. I start each day by examining yesterday's work and looking for areas where I can improve. I am always trying to draw the characters better, and trying to design each panel somewhat in the manner a painter would treat his canvas.” TryingI CanCharacterDesignDrawsAreasConcernedTreatsYesterdayPainterEach DayCanvasImprovingSurvivingAlways TryingExamining Author:Charles M. Schulz
“For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation.” HumansProblemSituationPovertyGreaterDesignAreasStructureStatisticsUnemploymentMontreal Author:Kim Campbell
“In evolution, as in all areas of science, our knowledge is incomplete. But the entire success of the scientific enterprise has depended on an insistence that these gaps be filled by natural explanations, logically derived from confirmable evidence. Because "intelligent design" theories are based on supernatural explanations, they can have nothing to do with science.” NaturalDesignTheoryEvolutionEvidenceAreasIntelligentFilledExplanationEnterpriseGapsIncompleteInsistenceIntelligent Design Author:Bruce Alberts
“Don't underestimate the therapeutic value of gardening. It's the one area where we can all use our nascent creative talents to make a truly satisfying work of art. Every individual, with thought, patience and a large portion of help from nature, has it in them to create their own private paradise: truly a thing of beauty and a joy for ever.” ArtHelpingUseJoyValuesIndividualImaginationBeautyCreativityCreativeTalentDesignAreasInnovationInventionParadiseWorks Of ArtSatisfyingPortionsGardeningUnderestimateTherapeuticSatisfying Work Author:Geoff Hamilton