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. — Hyman Rickover Copy Share Image
The tools of the academic designer are a piece of paper and a pencil with an eraser. If a mistake is made, it can always be erased and changed. If the practical-reactor designer errs, he wears the mistake around his… — Hyman Rickover Copy Share Image
Good ideas and innovations must be driven into existence by courage and patience. — Hyman Rickover Copy Share Image
Free discussion requires an atmosphere unembarrassed by any suggestion of authority or even respect. — Hyman Rickover Copy Share Image
Human experience shows that people, not organizations or management systems, get things done — Hyman Rickover Copy Share Image
All men are by nature conservative but conservatism in the military profession is a source of danger to the country. One must be ready… — Hyman Rickover Copy Share Image
I have a son. I love my son. I want everything that I do to be so safe that I would be happy to… — Hyman Rickover Copy Share Image
To doubt one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. Don't defend past actions; what is right today may be wrong… — Hyman Rickover Copy Share Image
A child is being properly educated only when he is learning to become independent of his parents. — Hyman Rickover Copy Share Image
A system under which it takes three men to check what one is doing is not control; it is systematic strangulation. — Hyman Rickover Copy Share Image
I do not have regrets. I believe I helped preserve the peace for this country. Why should I regret that? What I accomplished was… — Hyman Rickover Copy Share Image
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous impatience. — Hyman Rickover Copy Share Image
As a guide to engineering ethics, I should like to commend to you a liberal adaptation of the injunction contained in the oath of… — Hyman Rickover Copy Share Image
All new ideas begin in a non-conforming mind that questions some tenet of the conventional wisdom. — Hyman Rickover Copy Share Image
