Good Ideas And Innovations Must Be Driven

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.

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 Interest Always In Mind.

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.

Nothing So Sharpens The Thought Process As Writing Down One's Arguments. Weaknesses Overlooked In Oral Discussion Become Painfully Obvious On The Written Page.

A System Under Which It Takes Three Men To Check What One Is Doing Is Not Control; It Is Systematic Strangulation.