If You Don't Have A Nasty Obituary

We Have These Amazing Gifts Of Music And Mathematics And Painting And Olympic Running. I Mean, We're The Animal That Is Best Of All The Animals At Long-distance Running. Why? It Is Quite Amazing. Superfluous Gifts You Don't Really Need To Survive.

Science Is My Territory, But Science Fiction Is The Landscape Of My Dreams.

Dropping Of The Atomic Bomb Was The Main Subject Of Conversation For Many Years And So People Had Very Strong Feelings About It On Both Sides And People Who Thought It Was The Greatest Thing They'd Ever Done And People Who Thought It Was Just An Unpleasant Job And People Who Thought They Should Have Never Done It At All, So There Were Opinions Of All Kinds.

A Good Scientist Is A Person With Original Ideas. A Good Engineer Is A Person Who Makes A Design That Works With As Few Original Ideas As Possible. There Are No Prima Donnas In Engineering.

Aviation Is The Branch Of Engineering That Is Least Forgiving Of Mistakes.