“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
“The best simpleminded test of expertise in a particular area is an ability to win money in a series of bets on future occurrences in that area.” WinningAbilityParticularAreasTestsSeriesExpertise Author:Graham T. Allison
“If we take two people who have exactly the same sort of lesion or area of damage in the brain and then we do cognitive tests on them, you know, one person might have a very severe deficit in a certain area of thinking and another person might not with the same exact lesion. So there is a lot of differences and you can't just look at one brain and understand the whole picture.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsLooksPersonsTwoWholeMightCertainDifferencesBrainAreasTestsDamageSevereDeficitCognitiveWhole Picture Author:H. A. Berlin
“Our assumption is that God has not revealed all there is to know in the spiritual area any more than he has in these other areas. We, therefore, need to experiment in this area and, like scientists who work in other areas, develop and test theories in order to gain greater understanding” KnowsNeedsSpiritualOrderUnderstandingGreaterTheoryGainsAreasTestsScientistExperimentsAssumption Author:Charles H. Kraft
“Different areas present us with possibilities to test different theories.” DifferentPossibilityTheoryAreasTests Author:Torbjorn Tannsjo
“Measuring nuclear yield depends on multiple parameters - the location and number of instruments, the geology of the area, the location of the seismic station in relation to the test site.” NumbersDependsAreasTestsRelationInstrumentsNuclearStationsYieldMultipleSiteLocationMeasuringGeologyParameters Author:Abdul Kalam