Fundamentals Quote by Hyman Rickover

“I have a son. I love my son. I want everything that I do to be so safe that I would be happy to have my son operating it. That's my fundamental rule.” quote by Hyman Rickover — Download Open 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 have my son operating it. That's my fundamental rule.”

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All new ideas begin in a non-conforming mind that questions some tenet of the conventional wisdom.

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